Jessica Smith is a Vice President in Fleishman-Hillard's digital practice group and global co-chair, FH Word of Mouth. She brings more than a decade of marketing and social media expertise to the firm and its clients.

Her specialties include integrating digital into existing traditional marketing and communications programs. She does this through developing and executing digital strategy with a fresh, creative approach.

Armed with her first Prodigy account in 1988 and having been one of the first of her classmates to get (and use) an email address in college, she's been connecting and sharing online for over two decades. A graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, Jessica started her career at Sapient Corporation.

Jessica was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media in the Immediate Influence Blog in Fall 2009 and one of the 25 Women Who Rock Social Media by TopRankBlog in 2010. 

Sacramento Magazine listed her as one of "15 People to Watch" in their March 2010 issue.

Jessica embraces this wild, wild West of the internet as a way of harnessing new conversation channels.  You can find her blogging at her personal blog, JessicaNow.com