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Biography

Jerry Amernic is a writer and public relations consultant. He has written four books and is a contributor to newspapers, magazines and trade journals. In Canada he has been a Sunday columnist with The Toronto Sun and a feature correspondent with The Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen and National Post. He brings a strong media background to corporate communications. Jerry has served as public relations/media relations counsel to companies from various sectors: technology (IBM, Nortel, NCR, Honeywell), financial services (Investors Group, Bank of Montreal, PricewaterhouseCoopers), healthcare (Extendicare, St. Michael's Hospital), to name a few.

Jerry has more than twenty years of experience in Public Relations and possesses keen knowledge of the corporate sector and the media. He has been a Senior Consultant with two Toronto-based Public Relations firms, an associate to several public relations and communications marketing firms, and has trained consultants at such firms as Hill and Knowlton, Cohn & Wolfe and GPC. A former instructor in the Journalism, Public Relations and Corporate Communications programs at Humber College and Seneca College, he is an executive media trainer and public speaker.

Jerry's first book 'Victims: The Orphans of Justice' was an eye-opener into the criminal justice system. He later wrote two B2B books for U. S. publisher Community Communications and is currently working on a book called Toronto Art Tableau. His debut novel 'Gift of the Bambino' was recently released in the U. S. and has attracted strong reviews.