Jay Whitehead

Jay Whitehead (born April 8, 1959) is an American author and publisher most notable for publishing Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) magazine. As of January, 2023, he is the Chairman & CEO of ReentryCenters.com, Chair of the Reentry Leader Conference and author of Reentry Leader (Ingram Spark, 2023).

Writing and publishing career
Whitehead graduated from UCLA with a BA in History and earned a strategic finance certificate at the Harvard Business School.

He co-founded The CRO Association. He published Human Resources Outsourcing Today and HRO Europe Magazines. He co-founded The HRO Association.

His magazine Corporate Responsibility Officer issues an annual list, The 100 Best Corporate Citizens,. This effort was ranked by PR Week/Burson-Marsteller as the 3rd most influential corporate ranking in the nation. In 2009 Whitehead was named #73 on Ethisphere Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics list.

Whitehead is co-author (with Amit Chatterjee) of the 2009 book The Post-Carbon Economy.

On May 4, 2012, Whitehead started serving as CEO of Charity Partners, Inc. and Tickets-for-Charity.com.

Personal
Whitehead is an avid marathon runner.