About


Jason Fox is the Founder & CEO of JDF Strategies LLC. He’s an award-winning digital executive with experience managing large P&Ls (>$100M), launching and scaling new businesses, leading transformation, and creating industry-disrupting products for some of the world’s most influential companies and brands, including Consumer Reports, CNN Money, Columbia University, Direct Wines, Fortune, FOX, Health, LIFE, News Corporation, Outside, PBS, Slate Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Muse, TIME, Thomson Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal.

Fox has a reputation as an inspirational, consensus-building, and empowering enterprise leader, which led him to become a certified executive coach to help leaders address their most pressing challenges and opportunities. Fox has coached and mentored numerous executives, start-up founders, emerging leaders, and peers.

On the consulting front, his unusual mix of business, creative, communication, and technical skills has allowed him to drive innovation in both corporate and startup environments. He has deep expertise in digital transformation & business turnarounds, revenue growth & new business launch, recurring revenue models (subscriptions, membership), strategy & strategic planning, product strategy & management, business development & partnerships, enterprise leadership, data analysis, technology & innovation, performance & growth marketing, and general business management.

In 2019, Fox was inducted into Folio's Digital Hall of Fame for outstanding career-long contributions to digital media, and has won many other major industry awards.

Fox has also had success as an entrepreneur, trusted advisor, board member, and speaker. He was a pre-IPO investor in Lyft, Pinterest, Impossible Foods, and several early-stage start-ups, and founded and ran his own business for 11 years that was profiled in the New York Times. He is currently work as the Chief Innovation Officer for The Muse and on a stealth-mode start-up launching in late 2024.

Fox is a lifelong learner with a BA (McGill), MA (Simon Fraser), and certificates from Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, and NYU. He has also taught at universities in the USA and Canada.

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