Jamie Kaye Walters is VVK’s COO and founding partner. She leads the marketing practice and talent development while contributing strategy and content for both the public relations and video portfolio.
Prior to forming VVK, Jamie was the creative services and programming director at WDIV-Local 4, leading a team of 35 marketing, production, graphic design, and digital content creating professionals. During her broadcasting career, she produced 40-plus programs, led community engagement campaigns, and oversaw production of live entertainment, documentary, and political programs including the nationally syndicated “America’s Thanksgiving Parade,” Sunday morning’s “Flashpoint,” the daytime talk show “Live in the D,” and the annual “The Ford Fireworks.” In between two stints at WDIV-Local 4, she took a travel sabbatical and then co-founded the video production company Velocity Cow with Mike Sherman.
Jamie is graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and has received awards and acknowledgements from Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 under Forty,” The Michigan Chronicle’s “Woman of Excellence,” Promax, Michigan Association of Broadcasters, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Michigan Emmy chapter). She is a longtime resident of Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, honored to be on the board of Detroit Public Theatre, and is a mom to a couple of delightful kids.