James DeBord '91
Senior Partner
Jack Burden & Associates
Lancaster, PA
Major: History/Political Science
Married to Anne Louise DeBord and has two children, Andrew James, age three, and Meredith, age one.

Jack Burden & Associates, Inc. is a professional research firm that collects facts and organizes information with the help of the internet and other digital databases to help corporations, non-profits, political figures and others better understand patterns in politics, society and the marketplace.

"We help organizations and people succeed by taking advantage of public information. Ninety percent of all intelligence needs can be found in public records and general media." Market research, staff research training, executive speechwriting, background checks, customized CD-ROMS, corporate histories, donor prospecting, public opinion research, candidate research…our services are sort of endless.

Although confidentiality regulations prohibit him from providing details, his client base runs the gamut from companies like Delta Dental and Castrol Corporation to political figures like Vice President Al Gore.