Jeffrey Cohen Bio

Jeffrey Cohen
Executive Vice President &
Global Business Development

Jeffrey M. Cohen is Executive Vice President of Global Business Development at Advisen. He is a sales & marketing executive with over 25 years of experience focused on data, analytics, media and news businesses aimed at the insurance and financial sectors. Jeff is responsible for setting and implementing Advisen’s strategy for global business development. This includes Advisen’s Information & Analytics business, collaborating with Advisen’s wholly-owned subsidiary Web Connectivity, as well as his existing business development activities for the Research & Editorial media business. He will work closely with all sales and client management teams across the company.

His role also allows him to craft unique editorial pieces and online communications, moderate conference panels, and leverage Advisen’s large footprint to foster greater brand-building and revenue-gaining opportunities. Jeff's insurance hobby is to pursue and harness the online insurance community aspect that relates and connects insurance underwriters, brokers, buyers, and other insurance professionals in new and clever ways.

He joined Advisen in July 2003 after spending more than 15 years at Bloomberg, where he played pivotal roles in sales, sales management and global marketing. Jeff was appointed an Executive Vice President in January 2013, and he was most recently Chief Marketing Solutions Officer for the Research & Editorial division.

Jeff graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Biology. He is also currently President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Hearing and Communication. In 2000, he joined the Board of this non-profit agency based in New York City which serves all people with hearing loss.

Jeff is based in New York, NY.