Jay Stuller has straddled the worlds of corporate communications and mainstream journalism for more than three decades. The author of eight books and nearly a thousand national magazine articles — including features in Audubon, Smithsonian, Playboy and Reader’s Digest — he also spent three decades in public affairs and communications first with Shell Oil, and largely with Chevron Corporation, which Fortune ranks as the sixth largest company in the world. During his last three years at Chevron, Stuller was a member of the executive management team that ran an operating unit with 26,000 employees and nearly $8 billion in capital employed - - the corporation's first communications professional ever assigned to an operational leadership team.

After taking an early retirement and starting J Stuller Communications, he’s established himself as an independent practitioner, offering communications consulting, executive speechwriting and editorial services. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stuller brings an unusually rare combination of business and media experience to his practice. His consulting clients have included Charles Schwab, CEO Media, the World Business Academy, Bay Area Coffee, Robert H. Waterman & Associates, The Galvin Electricity Initiative, Chevron Corporation and the Benzene Health Research Consortium. Today he is affiliated with Bender Consulting, as a senior manager.

In one of Stuller's more recent projects, he developed communications on behalf of a proposed $5.6 million renovation of the Marin Country Club golf course.  While initially a contentious proposition - - because of a $12,800 cost per member and ten months of interrupted golf - - the measure went before the membership and passed with 66 percent of the vote.

At Chevron Corporation, Stuller wrote the company’s annual report; was managing editor of its worldwide employee magazine; ran a public relations team; and, served as the personal speechwriter for the Chairman of the Board and CEO, and other senior executives. First and foremost an exceptional writer, he also has vast experience with internal and external communications issues. He is highly skilled at identifying, defining and clarifying key messages, and focusing them upon audiences that most influence an enterprise’s success, be it the media, consumers, NGO’s or government officials. Stuller has worked on communications projects in the U.S., Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Familiar with a wide range of business topics — he's a contributing editor to The Conference Board Review— Stuller is particularly knowledgeable about the energy industry, from the exploration of crude oil to the refining and marketing of gasoline. His highly acclaimed book on the wine industry, Through the Grapevine, has been used as a text in Sonoma State University’s Graduate School of Business. Although now engaged primarily with corporate communications, Stuller remains a contributor to a number of magazines, including The American Legion and Hemispheres, the United Airlines in-flight.  He is co-author of the book, Perfect Power, published by McGraw Hill in the fall of 2008, on America's need to reinvent its electrical system.  It was a piece of work that was done in concert with the Galvin Electricity Initiative. (www.galvinpower.org)

Excerpts from Stuller’s books, magazine articles and speeches can be found in the section entitled Opera Vitae, the Latin term for life’s works or deeds.

A Washington State native, he spent two years at Pacific Lutheran University, where he played on the school’s basketball team. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, he graduated from Golden Gate University, with honors, and a degree in Political Science. For the summer of 1973, he was selected by Operation Crossroads Africa — an organization that was the precursor to the Peace Corps — to live and work in the Nigerian village of Tede.  Stuller lives in Marin County, California, with his wife, Susan Sutton.

He was mostly recently the Executive Editor of California CEO Magazine, and is a Director and Vice President of the Green Car Institute in San Luis Obispo, California. Stuller is also a member of the Golf Writer’s Association of America, the California Golf Writer’s Association, The Keepers of the Green (St. Andrews, Scotland Chapter), and the National Geographic Society.