Jon Tapper, Co-Founder

Jon has worked in the journalism and media relations fields for more than 20 years, and a large portion of that has been spent overseas, helping international organizations, non-governmental organizations and private businesses raise their profile and inform a global audience about their efforts and accomplishments.

Before co-founding Melwood Global, Jon worked with John Boit as a media advisor to the Government of Afghanistan, helping the country coordinate its communications operations as it moved into its reconstruction phase.

Jon has also worked at the United Nations, both in Geneva and New York, heading the Department of Public Information's team on the Human Rights Treaty Bodies. He oversaw coverage of the annual Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, as well as the Economic and Social Council. Jon also represented the United Nations at the Global Summit on Social Development in Geneva, and the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa.

Back in the United States, Jon was the Director of Crisis Communications for one of the country's leading public relations firms. He was also the Communications Director for the Massachusetts Department of Treasury, and helped his boss, Shannon O'Brien, become the first woman in Massachusetts history to be a major party nominee for governor.

Jon began his career as a journalist, first in Hartford, Connecticut, and later in Boston, Massachusetts, where he became the State House Bureau Chief and chief political reporter for a major Boston-area daily newspaper.

Jon is a graduate of Northeastern University, and lives in Boston with his wife, Sandra.