Institute for Public Relations

Ray Jordan is Corporate Vice President, Communication and Public Affairs for Johnson & Johnson, and is responsible for public relations and corporate communication for the broadly-based, diversified global health care company. He oversees the public affairs responsibilities and activities of the company’s widely decentralized family of more than 250 operating companies in 60 countries around the world.

Ray joined Johnson & Johnson in September, 2003, as Vice President Group Communications, where he was senior consulting partner in Corporate Communication, focusing on strategic communications for the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group.  He established himself as a counselor on issues management and communication to senior management and was appointed to his present position as an Officer of the Corporation and as head of the Public Affairs and Corporate Communication division in October, 2004.

Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Ray was Vice President, Communications and Information for Pfizer, Inc. where he developed extensive experience in public relations, corporate communication, information resources, and health policy and financial communications, through a range of positions with Pfizer over the course of 17 years.

Ray has also served industry as chair of PhRMA’s Public Affairs section and the National Pharmaceutical Council’s User Group. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for American Communications, the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Public Relations, the Seminar Committee and as Board Member of the Arthur W. Page Society.

He is a graduate of Yale University and earned an MBA in marketing and finance from Columbia University.  Ray began his career as a reporter for a regional daily newspaper and then made an early career move into finance and systems analysis of business and marketing processes, first with Bristol-Myers, then Dun & Bradstreet, and then in a management consulting company he co-founded in 1979.

Ray and his wife, Karen, reside in Westport, Connecticut, and have four sons.