Jim Cox, a veteran PR agency exec specializing in energy clients for Edelman and Hill & Knowlton, has set up a new firm in Austin.
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Cox previously ran Jim Cox Inc. before selling the firm to Edelman and creating its first Texas outpost in Houston in the 1980s. He was at Edelman for 13 years, later relocating to New York, before moving on to GCI Group to lead its corporate practice.
Most recently he was a senior VP at Hill & Knowlton until December, where he led its Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, team for the Third OPEC Summit in 2008 and worked Saudi Aramco’s PR and the four-person H&K crisis unit during the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Cox has counseled America’s Natural Gas Alliance, Saudi Aramco, Petrobas, Exxon, Texaco and Peabody, among others.
James O. COX III LLC is at 917-945-1533/JamesOCoxIII [at] gmail [dot]com.