Gary L Ginsberg was born on August 30,1962 and is an American lawyer, political operative and corporate adviser, serving as a strategist in both the public and private sectors for more than 25 years.
14 Facts About Gary Ginsberg
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Gary Ginsberg was most recently Senior Vice President and Global Head of Communications at SoftBank Group Corp.
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In 1995, Ginsberg became Senior Editor and legal counsel of George, the magazine started by John F Kennedy, Jr.
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Gary Ginsberg spent eleven years at News Corporation, serving in several senior roles, including most recently as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs.
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In 2009, Gary Ginsberg stepped down from his role at News Corp.
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Gary Ginsberg had been close to Chernin and was closely associated with Democratic politics.
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Gary Ginsberg was credited with brokering numerous relationships between Murdoch and prominent Democratic politicians.
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Gary Ginsberg arranged lunches with Bill Clinton and orchestrated a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in 2006.
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Gary Ginsberg arranged a meeting between Murdoch and Barack Obama in 2008.
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In October 2018 Gary Ginsberg was hired by Softbank as the company's Global Chief of Communications.
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Gary Ginsberg is the author of First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung People Who Shaped our Presidents published in July 2021, which reached The New York Times Best Seller list.
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Gary Ginsberg is chairman of the Board of New Visions for Public Schools; Director of The City, an online news service covering NYC, and Malaria No More; and serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Genesis Prize Foundation Genesis Prize Foundation.
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Gary Ginsberg is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Gary Ginsberg holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Columbia University School of Law, where was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.