 Jan Goldstein |
Jan Goldstein has joined Solomon McCown & Company to lead the Boston-based agency’s Mission, Education and Healthcare practice.
Goldstein joins Solomon McCown from the Girl Scouts, where she was chief marketing officer for the youth organization’s Eastern Massachusetts Council. Prior to that, she was marketing and communications director for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston and a strategic communications director for national service nonprofit City Year. She was previously a VP at MSLGroup (then MS&L Public Relations). She started her career as an account supervisor at Boston-based Cone Communications.
At Solomon McCown, Goldstein will oversee a client roster that includes foundations, secondary schools, colleges and universities, human service providers, physicians’ groups, insurers, home health companies, public agencies and medical journals.
Solomon McCown, which specializes in healthcare, public affairs and crisis management, was founded in 2003 and maintains an additional office in New York.
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