Jon Quinn

Jon Quinn is a senior marketing executive with progressive leadership experience in both corporate and agency environments in brand management and marketing communications with an extensive marketing education and a unique combination of strategic, analytic and creative strengths. Jon’s areas of expertise include: brand strategy, new product development and introduction, consumer behavior, marketing research, integrated marketing communications and digital marketing. 

Jon directly engages with corporate partners to develop and foster programs that are mutually beneficial to the student, the school and corporate partners. As the Director of the Consumer Packaged Goods Immersion Program, Jon regularly engages with leading CPG firms such as Nestlé, Proctor & Gamble, JM Smucker, Unilever, and many others. He created and co-teaches a career immersion style program with Amazon (BUSML 4258 eCommerce Digital Advertising). These programs had directly led to Fisher students being hired as interns and full-time employees by these corporate partners. Jon is also the creator and host of Fisher's CareerEQ podcast that serves as a job search and early career navigation resource for business students. These activities have resulted in Jon receiving the Recognition Award for significant out-of-classroom contributions to enhance student learning and experience in the undergraduate and graduate programs, and/or significant service contributions to the department, college, and university.  

He has held senior roles at high-profile brands and organizations including Applebee’s, Huntington Bank, Bob Evans, YUM! Brands, Ketchum Communications and Foote, Cone & Belding. Jon teaching experience started in the 1990's at The Katz School of Business at The University of Pittsburgh and The Smeal School of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Fisher, Jon was the Nestlé Faculty Fellow, Director of the Center for Brand Leadership, and Director of the Consumer Marketing Academy at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Jon earned his Master of Science in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University, his MSIA (MBA) from Carnegie Mellon University, and his Bachelor in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Service:

• Fisher's CareerEQ Podcast Host
• Faculty Sponsor of the Amazon Education Alliance Program (BUSML 4258)
• Faculty “STEP” Mentor (Second-year Transformational Experience Program)
• Committee Member: Committee on Academic Misconduct
• Committee Member: Non-Degree Executive Education Program
• FisherFirst Faculty participant (supporting first-generation business students)

MS in Marketing from The Smeal School of Business at The Pennsylvania State University

MS in Industrial Administration (MBA) at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University

BS Economics at the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh