Yoji Cole

Yoji is currently the Director of Corporate Communications for The FishmanCo/Arbitronix and Special Advisor to The Caraway Group. At The FishmanCo/Arbitronix Yoji has expanded the financial company’s clientele 40 percent. He’s partnered with targeted media. He’s successfully partnered The FishmanCo/Arbitronix with Chambers of Commerce and business organizations that continue to increase the company’s reach into growing consumer business markets and he’s presented before business conferences.

For The Caraway Group, Yoji has penned speeches, Op-Eds and feature articles for senior executives at Microsoft, MGM Mirage, NAACP and other Caraway Group clients. His communications and marketing expertise has helped The Caraway Group’s Fortune 1000 clientele gain access to markets that include women, Millenials, Genexers, and ethnic and minority consumers.

Previously Yoji was the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for DiversityInc where he interviewed corporate luminaries, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and former Time Warner Chairman Richard Parsons. He traveled to Venezuela to cover U.S. corporate interests there and reported on Nashville, Tennessee's immigration issues. Yoji’s reporting also revealed revenue-building business practices that thrive on diversity and inclusion.

Prior to his work with DiversityInc, Yoji freelanced for New York-based magazines covering cultural influences on entertainment and media and conducted celebrity interviews. Prior to his time as a freelancer Yoji was a journalist at The Arizona Republic. There, he went form a cub reporter covering five small city governments in Maricopa County's West Valley to the newspaper's first online reporter covering breaking news, police, and politics.

Early in his career Yoji interned as a reporter for Newsweek's Los Angeles bureau, helping senior journalists cover the O.J. Simpson civil trial and the mass cult suicide in San Diego.

It was in his native Los Angeles that Yoji launched his career at the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper and the weekly alternative newspaper LA Weekly. At those publications, Yoji's reporting revealed the difference in food quality at inner-city grocery stores when compared with suburban grocery stores; he also covered young voters, corporate drug testing and other topics.