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John FinottiPrincipal
jfinotti@accesspr.net
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John Finotti is a founder and principal of Access Public Relations. He has more than 20 years of communications-related experience.

Prior to forming Access (and a predecessor firm, Access Corporate Communications in 2004), he was associate editor of Florida Trend, an award-winning monthly business magazine, where he wrote on a variety of business and public policy issues, including a regular column called Insiders that covered Florida’s publicly traded companies.

Previously, John served as a staff reporter for The Florida Times-Union covering business and finance. In addition, his articles have appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek and Atlanta Business Chronicle.

John studied journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in 1995, he was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship to study business and finance at the Columbia University Business School in New York.

He is the co-author of two books, Insiders’ Guide to Jacksonville (now in its second edition) and The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism.

Earlier in his career, John was vice president of a public relations firm in Atlanta where he represented a variety of clients, including a national accounting firm, real estate developers, banks and investment firms.

John serves on the board of the EDEN Group and was appointed by Mayor John Peyton to serve on the Better Jacksonville Plan Citizens Advisory Committee. He and his wife, Marisa, have two children Nick and Ana.