Public & Government Affairs Executive
Jesse Gutierrez is director of public and government affairs for The McGraw-Hill Companies, a global information services provider and home to Businessweek, J.D. Power & Associates, McGraw-Hill Education, and Standard & Poor’s.
Jesse oversees the congressional and state-level public relations and government affairs efforts of the corporation’s higher education group with annual sales of $915 million. Most recently, he helped to craft education provisions for President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package and the federal Higher Education Act in 2008.
From 2004 to 2007, Jesse directed government affairs at McGraw-Hill’s Wall Street firm Standard & Poor’s, working closely with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on national education policy and the United States Chamber of Commerce on workforce development.
Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, Jesse was director of communications for David Rockefeller’s international business organization, the Council of the Americas, where helped to win Trade Promotion Authority for the U.S. President in 2002.
Jesse is a member of the Software Information Industry Association’s Government Affairs Council; Association for American Publishers’ Higher Education Executive Committee; AccessText Network’s Advisory Committee; and he chairs the Strategic Relationships Committee of The McGraw-Hill Companies’ Hispanic Heritage Network.
Jesse earned a master’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Institute of Latin American Studies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Houston and a paralegal degree from Phoenix College.
Jesse was awarded a silver medal for best annual report written by a public policy organization in 2002.
He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.