Company Leadership

Chief Executive

Executive Consultant/Trainer

JEFF THOMPSON, President

Thompson Communication Breakthroughs, LLC
JeffTcom@aol.com

Leading the company is its founder, a life-long communications and media professional. In New York City, he served as Executive Vice President at two of the world's largest public relations & communications firms, first at Carl Byoir & Associates and then at Hill and Knowlton, Inc. from 1979 through 1992, At H & K he was also director of MediaCom, the agency's media and communications training division.

From 1993 until Mid-2002 he was Senior Vice President of Fyock & Associates in Winston-Salem, NC, as well as the creator and director of its MasterCom communications training division. Next, he founded his own firm, Thompson Communications Breakthroughs,LLC to expand and further develop training operations while building still other innovative communication specialties.

Earlier in his career, Jeff was an anchorman and news reporter for NBC Network News, Westinghouse Broadcasting, United Press International, RKO Broadcasting and the U.S. Information Agency's Voice of America.

Frequently he specialized in reporting business, economic, stock market, and hi-tech news, having also worked as a licensed stock broker on Wall Street.

In New York City he hosted one of the first full-time stock market programs ever on television, the WOR-TV Channel 9 "Stock Market Observer," That daily 7 hour show pioneered the various TV business formats now familiar to market watchers nationwide today.

Jeff had also reported on the nation's space adventures, having designed, built and managed the broadcast station, KMSC Radio, adjacent NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. (Now renamed JSC honoring President Johnson.)

At KMSC he also reported worldwide on the daily steps to the to the moon and beyond via the United Press International Radio Network, the Voice of America and other news organizations, print and broadcast.

He taught television journalism at Long Island University, and lectured on the subject at New York University, the University of Miami and the University of Houston. Jeff is a graduate of the University of Texas in Broadcast Communications, Television and Film Production, with additonal studies in Journalism and Public Relations, plus a Minor in Sociology of Mass Communications.

Jeff has been particularly active in advancing science education in public schools. He initiated a project to bring NASA educational programs into every classroom in two counties via inexpensive satellite dish systems from DirecTV. Personally donating many of the dishes, he has managed to fully equip local school systems and continues to develop other such projects in coordination with NASA Headquarters in Washington.

He has trained NASA's Internet educators from all 10 US space centers, and has worked further with Wake Forest University on development of a proposed STEM curriculum (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) for middle schools.

Most recently, working with Chapel Hill University, he has made Remotely Controlled Astronomical Observatories, half-a-world-away, available to science class rooms in both middle and high schools in his district. Now students and teachers may set up photography of astronomical objects overnight. Later, they can take measurements and calculate sizes and distances.

Throughout his career, Jeff Thompson has been a pioneer, designer, builder, and a managing executive, as well as a key journalist and talent in major broadcast and public relations organizations. In establishing Thompson Communications Breakthroughs, LLC, he brings that insight and pioneering spirit to a new exploration and development of modern communications, both technological and human.

Every format and forum is fair game for creativity and innovation.