James Shaffer
113 Luther Bonney
(207) 780-4020
Dean
Jim Shaffer, Dean and Professor of Business, is a former media executive who has reinvented himself as an academic. His 30+ year media career took him to Minneapolis, Baltimore, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, Maine. He was in Los Angeles from ’83 through ’89, where he was CFO of the Los Angeles Times. He came to Maine in 1991 to be CEO of Maine-based Guy Gannett Communications, which was based in Portland and had TV, newspaper, and other media properties in seven states. After the sale of Guy Gannett in 1999, he served briefly as CEO of Clickshare Service Corp., an Internet infrastructure start-up, and he studied leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In addition to being Dean, Jim describes himself as a student and teacher of adaptive leadership.
