Jason Booth
Jason Booth served as Vice President, Communications for the activist investment firms Steel Partners and Steel Partners Japan before re-joining Sitrick in 2011. He had been with Sitrick for five years before that, providing high-level strategic public relations counsel, with an emphasis on financial situations, litigation support, restructuring and crisis communications. During his tenure with Sitrick, Mr. Booth provided strategic communications support for numerous proxy contests, Chapter 11 restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. He also provided advice and counsel to public companies facing short-selling attacks.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Booth was the Asia economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. He also wrote the Journal’s “Heard in Asia” investment column and served as a financial reporter for the South China Morning Post. In total, Mr. Booth spent more than 10 years living and working as a financial journalist in China and Korea.
Mr. Booth also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism.