Jonathan Petersen

Jonathan Petersen is a veteran marketer. He is partner and social media / PR evangelist at Somersault Group, the international publishing strategy and services agency. He curates news about the future of publishing on Somersault's blog and Twitter stream and manages the SomersaultNOW dashboard. He is adjunct professor in business, marketing, and communications at Cornerstone University and Spring Arbor University.

His experience includes leadership positions at Zondervan, a HarperCollins company, where he directed public relations, corporate communications, and retail, direct, and social media marketing strategy. He's won several awards, including a team Effie for outstanding marketing effectiveness. Prior to Zondervan, he was founding and managing religion news editor and anchor for United Press International Radio Network.

He's a Certified eMarketer, a professional narrator of audiobooks, a former judge for the Internet Advertising Competition, an educating consultant with the Gerson Lehrman Group, and a member of the Online News Association.