chairman, JPM Companies
Chairman, Baylor Scott and White Health
founder, Public Strategies
2023 Hall of Fame Inductee
Dallas, TX
Jack Martin is an entrepreneur, businessman, and rancher. He is perhaps best known for his behind-the-scenes advice to C-suite executives, navigating them through strategies involving their most complex challenges.
Early in his career, Jack served as Executive Assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. He remained one of the Senator’s most trusted advisors and friends throughout his career.
In 1988, Jack founded Public Strategies, which grew into one of the most successful corporate advisory firms in the world. Under Jack’s leadership, Public Strategies helped shape the business climate in Texas and beyond.
In 2006, WPP Group acquired Public Strategies and merged it with Hill & Knowlton, a 90-year-old global communications company. Jack was appointed Global Chairman and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies where he took his business advisory services global by leading the multinational firm with over 80 offices in 44 countries.
Upon stepping down from Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Jack formed JPM Advisory, LLC as part of a family investment platform active in ranching, oil and gas, and entrepreneurial endeavors. Both Jack and Patsy Martin come from fourth generation Texas families involved in agriculture. Today they own the JPM Ranch Company which includes the Mallard Creek Ranch in Montague, Texas, and the historic Open C Ranch in Forestburg, Texas.
Currently, Jack serves as Chairman of the board of Baylor Scott and White Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States with 48 hospitals and over 40,000 employees.