Larry Weitzner | Chairman
Larry Weitzner is an attorney, and the Founder and Chairman of Jamestown Associates, one of the nation’s leading political media and strategic communications firms.
For more than three decades, Jamestown has specialized in campaign strategy, television and digital advertising, documentary and feature filmmaking, direct response communications, and public affairs campaigns. The firm’s team includes award-winning editors, designers, filmmakers, and political strategists from across the country.
Larry served as a lead media strategist and ad maker for Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaigns in both 2016 and 2020, and produced advertising for outside groups supporting President Trump in 2024. Jamestown’s advertising played a key role in President Trump’s historic 2016 victory, and the firm’s two-minute spot “Argument for America” generated more than 8 million online views — more than any advertisement produced by either presidential campaign that year. Time Magazine recognized two Jamestown ads among the “most notable” political ads of 2016.
In 2020, Larry produced the Trump campaign’s “Gratitude” commercial, the first presidential campaign advertisement ever to air nationally during the Super Bowl. The ad, highlighting President Trump’s criminal justice reform efforts, was named the most digitally buzzworthy ad of Super Bowl LIV by Salesforce. In 2024, Larry also produced advertising for the Republican Jewish Coalition that helped President Trump earn a record share of the Jewish vote for a Republican presidential candidate.
Over the course of his career, Larry has worked at the highest levels of political campaigns and public affairs efforts across the United States and internationally, including Hungary, Albania, Georgia, Canada, Israel, Serbia, Kazakhstan, and other countries. He has helped elect more Republican governors in the Northeast than any other media consultant over the past 30 years.
In addition to his political work, Larry has produced award-winning feature films, documentaries, and advertising campaigns for major organizations including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the Arizona Department of Education, and Rutgers University.
Jamestown’s work has been featured on Meet the Press, ABC, NBC, CBS Nightly News, and Hannity, as well as covered extensively by Politico, Axios, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national media outlets. Larry’s work has also been referenced in several best-selling books on politics and media.
Larry earned his bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University and his law degree from Seton Hall University. He and his wife, Jackie, have two children.