Jim Putnam

Born and raised in Iowa, after attending the University of Arizona and the University of Nebraska by age 22 he began his career in politics working for the first of three mayors of Omaha, Nebraska. Four years later he was in our nation's capitol as a domestic affairs specialist for the Executive Office of the President (Nixon Administration). Over the next decade he was a reporter for the Omaha World Herald newspaper, spent four terms working for the US Congress, managed two successful congressional campaigns, and helped elect a US Senator from Nebraska. Presidential campaign experience included work for Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr. followed by work with Ross Perot on presidential and NAFTA efforts. His political experience culminated by serving as campaign manager for a US Senate race and hosting events with all four living GOP presidents the same year. Putnam also worked with Governor Charles Thone of Nebraska and Governor Thomas Kean in New Jersey (recently chairman of 911 Terrorism Commission), serving the latter as a chief of staff, communications director and assistant state treasurer of New Jersey. From politics to Madison Avenue he spent the '90's in NYC working for independent media agencies on multi-million dollar television and radio campaigns including creative, strategic, marketing and branding elements. While working in New York in 1994 he formed his own company, Ivy Hollow Productions, where he produced the first digital recording of the New Testament of the Bible, then wrote and published The Joshua Chronicles, an inspirational and mystical work of fiction. He served as a creative consultant to National Geographic Television, where a series he helped create and produce, Really Wild Animals (CBS TV Network), earned one Emmy and five Emmy nominations. Ivy Hollow undertook major national media campaigns for publishers and record companies in Nashville and Washington, D,C, and Putnam created and produced a nationally syndicated weekly radio program. Dancing the Tightrope and Take Me Now God! are two recent books he wrote inspired by the experiences of his life and the many influences growing up. The first book traces the early childhood through teen years and the many adventures all kids shared while coming of age in the days before cell phones, texting, video games and pcs. The latter is the end of the pursuit of meaning in life, and a rather hilarious journey through the baby boomer metaphysical and spiritual search for truth. In 2000 he joined The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) in NYC, one of the largest media companies in the world then his latest literary work led him on trips throughout Great Britain and Ireland which preceded travel to Russia in search of secret Soviet film archives of Josef Stalin. There he discovered the extensive cold war film archives of Stalin and the Nazi SS film archives of Adolph Hitler which had vanished 50 years earlier in the fall of Berlin. Over 32 million feet of film footage was kept in the archives. Putnam was the first American the 49 archive staff had ever seen and only the 2nd in the 57 years since it opened, the first being a Communist sympathizer in the late 1950's. His subsequent book, Hitler & Stalin - the War of Extermination between the Nazis and Communists, is a non-fiction narrative history tracing the roots and growth of Communism, Nazism, Hitler and Stalin. He made several appearances as a guest and host of Russia Today, a syndicated public television program out of Washington, DC. Most recently Putnam worked with a key KGB cold war defector to the US and with James Woolsey, former CIA Director under President Clinton to establish an international computer security company, Invicta Networks. He also works with CBA Pharma, Inc., a Kentucky pharmaceutical company, with a promising potential cure for cancer. CBA is the first firm to enter FDA Phase 3 trials with a compound that results in the destruction of multi-drug resistant cancer cells. From politics (he is a registered Independent) to cyber security, history to potential pioneering medical breakthroughs, he still most enjoys music, writing, and trying to help people. His band, Nashville Bound, is a popular internet group at music sites featuring songs written by Putnam and recorded in Nashville. Putnam is publisher of the Internet based Coltons Point Times newspaper with 50% of the readers outside the United States. http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/nashvilleboundmusic http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=603354