Trish Hoffman
Partner

Described as a renaissance woman, and one of the only lucky ladies kissed on the lips by George Clooney at the Chicago “Ocean’s Thirteen” movie premiere!!!!  Trish appears in the upcoming film “Under New Management” and is a contributing editor/co-host for High School Football America. 

An award-winning journalist and former news anchor, Trish started her own company specializing in media strategy focusing on publicity and media training, along with television production. She is also a mentor and volunteer, and is currently studying Improvisation at The Second City in Chicago.

Trish is co-executive producer/narrator of the PBS documentary The Primo Center.  She is also in pre-production of a high school sports television series, in which she serves as host and executive producer.  Past projects include creator/host/executive producer of the made-for-HGTV pilot Governors' Mansions and executive producer of The Next Andretti.

In 2003, Trish co-founded Blitz Group LLC, a boutique media company. Trish has landed clients on NBC Nightly News, NBC’s Today Show, CNBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times USA Today, LA Times, Business Week, Women’s Wear Daily and a variety of local newspapers, magazines and television stations.  Recently, a quote she wrote for a client was featured in Time Magazine’s “Quote of the Day”.

When highly respected Morningstar, a 5-star mutual fund rating service, launched its business news segments on its website in 2000, it called upon Trish to be its main news anchor.   Prior to moving to Chicago, she anchored and reported at WFMZ-TV in the Philadelphia/Allentown market and was lead evening anchor for CBS affiliate, WRBL in Columbus, Georgia.  She began her news career at CBS affiliate KPIX in San Francisco on the assignment desk.

Trish has earned various awards for her work in broadcasting, real estate, public relations and volunteering.  She was named National and Local Volunteer of the Year by the Junior League of Chicago; won the 2007 Silver Trumpet Award for distinguished PR for the RedHot Midnight Kiss, an event she created with her partner Jeff Fisher.  The Georgia Association of Broadcasters awarded Trish with the "Best Local TV Special" on Teenage Pregnancy. The same television news special won her an Associated Press award.

Trish is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and is very dedicated to the Primo Center for Women and Children as a board member, fundraiser and mentor.  She is also a member of Junior League of Chicago and the Publicity Club of Chicago.   She loves to cook…saying cooking is her therapy.  Because of her passion for cooking, she and is compiling family recipes with a new twist for her first cookbook she is undertaking.  

She graduated from Columbus State University in Georgia, where she studied Communications and Economics. She also studied at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Trish lives in Chicago and has three children and one adorable granddaughter.

Her big thrills…that Clooney kiss and kitchen tours in A-List restaurants!

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Jeff Fisher
Partner

After anchoring and reporting on major sporting events from the Olympics to the World Series to the Super Bowl in a career spanning 30-years, Jeff is now focusing on media strategy and television show development for Blitz Group LLC.   Jeff, an avid high school football fan, is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of High School Football America, and he’s co-executive producer of the PBS documentary “Primo Center” and several other  television show pilots.

Prior to launching Blitz Group, Fisher, an award-winning journalist, anchored at Fox Sports Net for the Chicago, Bay Area and Ohio regions.  While in the Windy City, Fisher reported on all Chicago professional and college teams, plus served as a pre, post and in-game host on Fox Sports Net's Emmy-award winning broadcasts for the Cubs and White Sox.  Jeff also worked as a Co-host and pit reporter on several different motorsports programs on Speed Channel and The Outdoor Channel. 

Before arriving in Chicago, Jeff was the Sports Director at WFMZ-TV in the Allentown/Philadelphia market.   Fisher was the creator, executive producer and host of "The Big Ticket".  The weekly, 60-minute high school football wrap-up show won him the Associated Press Best Sportscast in Pennsylvania Award in 2000.  Fisher was also the creator and host of more than a dozen half-hour sports specials featuring international superstars such as Mario Andretti and Larry Holmes.

Jeff also spent a year as the General Manager of the Allentown Ambassadors, a professional minor league baseball team in the Northern League in 2002.

Fisher was also named Media Person of the Year in 1999 by the Colonial League and won the prestigious Sixth Man Award at Lehigh University.

Jeff is an all-around sports fan, who grew-up in Easton, Pennsylvania.  His fondest memory is watching his best friend Marty Nothstein win a gold medal in the 2000 Olympics in Australia and a silver medal in the 1996 games in Atlanta.

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Amy Kulerski

Producer/Client & Media Relations 

Amy joins Blitz Group after a successful career as an Associate Producer on The Steve Wilkos Show. 

Amy's responsibilities include managing the development of our television productions, plus client and media relations.

Born in Chicago, Amy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Philosophy from Iowa State University.

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