Jake Drake

Jake Drake recently transferred from California to build out an Asia-Pacific region that can serve clients within both agencies while driving business growth in that region. Jake's broad professional communications background includes experience across the energy industry, providing corporate marketing, reputation management and crisis communications support for companies and industry associations involved in energy trading, manufacturing, transportation and consumer/retail sales. For Illinova Energy Partners, the former deregulated energy marketing arm of Illinois Power, Jake led a diverse, multi-market education campaign focused on raising awareness within key vertical and geographic markets. For UOP, a worldwide leader in petroleum refining, petrochemical and gas processing jointly owned by Union Carbide and Allied Signal, Jake played a key role on the global crisis communications and response team. This group developed crisis response and training procedures for UOP's corporate headquarters and helped coordinate rollout across the company's global facilities. Jake also brings an extensive background in residential, commercial, retail and industrial real estate and building products. In the retail market, he led crisis and media spokesperson training programs for two of the largest mall management firms in the country, Urban Retail Properties and General Growth. Jake has authored three nationally released books, including a biography of presidential candidate/Texas businessman Ross Perot that rose to #7 on The New York Times Best Selling Paperback list.