Quadrant Two PR

José Manuel (“J.M.”) De Jesús
Biography
José Manuel De Jesús is a bilingual media and marketing expert with over 20 years of experience as a journalist in TV, radio, print and the internet, US Latino marketing and public relations.
In 1994 he began Quadrant II Media Corporation(renamed QUADRANT TWO PR in 2006), a national Hispanic market public relations and media sales brokerage and serves as its President & CEO.
Q2PR's portfolio includes work for some of America’s largest and most successful corporations including: Ford Motor Company, Chase Home Finance, Kraft Foods, Eastman Kodak, Miss Clairol, Welch’s, P&G, PepsiCo and many others.
In 2000 QUADRANT II was awarded the Ford Motor Company's Minority Supplier, Minority Dealer Initiative account.
JM is a former Account Supervisor Hispanic Market PR at the UniWorld Group Inc., planning and managing the agency’s Hispanic market press and community relations initiatives on the Colgate-Palmolive Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (Sonrisas Brillantes, Futuros Brillantes) and Mead Johnson Nutritionals (Nutrament).
On May 5, 1993 he was awarded the PRAME Award (Public Relations and Marketing Excellence) for outstanding work in the Community Relations category in recognition of his work on the Colgate-Palmolive account.
He served as general market consultant to the launch team for Con Agra's Culturelle and scientific poster sessions on Welch’s Purple Grape Juice accounts for Julie McQuain Public Relations and the Mammoth Group.
De Jesus began his career an independent producer in the mid 80’s and later joined WPIX Channel 11 News as assignment editor and community affairs reporter. In the early 90s he worked at Fox flagship station WNYW Fox 5 News as an early AM assignment editor and field producer.
In the mid to late 90s he was a crime court and investigative reporter on Bronxnet News 67. De Jesús is published in El Nuevo Essex(El
Nuevo Group Newspapers), USAVoice.org, LaRitmo.com among other publications on Business, US Hispanic affairs, Latinos and the media, and general assignment news.
In addition, JM is a member of the National Society of Hispanic MBA's and Chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board of its Denver. CO chapter.