Gigi Cohen - Bio

Gigi Cohen is President of FoodAndBeveragePeople Media Group, LLC, a company she founded after working in the advertising and publishing industry for over two decades.   Cohen presides over the publishing of a business-to-business website, FoodAndBeveragePeople.com and delivers a weekly newsletter, News Kernels, helping thousands of current and aspiring industry professionals keep up on all segments of the food and beverage industry.  Cohen’s most gratifying work is consulting with clients, taking a strategic lead in helping them find and engage with industry talent and new customers through social media, content creation and search engine optimization. 

Prior to founding her own Company, Cohen was Vice President of Classifieds for Advance Internet, the digital arm of Advance Publications.  While with Advance, Cohen was charged with developing the business models and ultimately lead the group that was charged with ensuring the vast recruitment advertising revenues and audience driven from newspaper classifieds transitioned to the Company’s online media properties. 

Cohen is currently Vice President for Staffing Management Association of New Jersey and is an active member of the 2014 GSC-Conference in Atlantic City.