JAMIE DUFFIN

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS

Jamie was recently referred to as a “Swiss Army Knife” for ALG Holdings, meaning whatever is needed Jamie can jump in and make it happen. From creative tasks such as web development, graphics design and video editing to networking with investor partners, remodeling restaurants or just rallying the troops with infectious positivity, Jamie is a valuable asset to ALG Holdings. A lifelong creative and connector of people, Jamie simply wants to help people make their dreams come true. She is passionate about helping people find the “yes” when the path to success is littered with “no”s.

Jamie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas at Arlington where she majored in Theatre Design & Production and received a minor in advertising. Upon graduation, Jamie’s entrepreneural journey began in starting up various theater companies while also working as a puppeteer with Basil Twist’s company, touring with his world-renowned production of Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka. When living in Austin in 2006 and working on a passion project, a performance venue in East Austin called Project Imagine, she met Lucky Tubb, nephew of country music legend Ernest Tubb. This relationship opened up many doors for Jamie and resulted in finding a passion for booking and promoting live music. Jamie toured with Hank William’s III doing tour management and merchandise sales in 2010. By 2011 when Jamie met an Oil and Gas businessman and burgeoning music label owner named JB Yowell, she was ready for bigger and better things.

Over the next decade, JB and Jamie promoted concerts with stars like Lisa Marie Presley, created a radio show, The Bryan Blue Show turning it into a nationally syndicated radio production airing on over 50 stations around the country. From 2011 to 2016 Jamie also owned and operated Blackbox Concerts, a talent buying and concert promotion company based in North Texas. The Fort Worth Weekly acknowledged Jamie’s contributions to the music community by creating a new category in its annual music awards, Best Talent Buyer, for Blackbox and the company won that award in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Under the moniker Blackbox Concerts, Jamie booked and promoted over 3,000 live music events and was the primary talent buyer for 15+ music venues across Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin, TX, including the legendary Lola’s Saloon in Fort Worth from 2012-2016. In 2016 she and JB Yowell founded Blue Knight Agency, a full-service digital content marketing agency. Two years later, Jamie set off on her own with Firecracker Agency, a digital content creation company. At Firecracker Agency, Jamie conducted sales, project management and created and executed marketing strategies for over 50 companies.

Collaborator and frequent business partner JB has called her “brilliant at the creative side, from company culture, to the look and interior of a business, its aesthetics.” In 2020, Jamie and JB began working together again as JB tapped Firecracker Agency to complete some early marketing tasks for his new company, ALG Holdings and Kroh Exploration. Firecracker Agency, and its VP Adam Snook, (Jamie’s brother in law), were absorbed by ALG Holdings in 2021. At ALG Holdings, Jamie’s accomplishments have included crafting marketing strategies, running online ads, spearheading branding efforts, building websites, designing restaurant and office interiors, creating logos, building menus, constructing prospectus brochures for investment projects and much, much more! Her current role as VP or Operations and VP of Investor Relations is the culmination of her career and she is thrilled to be one of the pillars of ALG, working tirelessly and passionately to build ALG Holdings, ALG Films, Kroh Exploration, Perrotti’s Pizza, Perk Coffee and Hyena’s Comedy Club.

Jamie lives in Fort Worth, TX as well as part time in New York, NY with her husband and their daughter, dogs, cat and snakes. ALG’s brands are littered with Jamie’s immediate family, from her younger sister, VP Jill Howell to her brothers-in-law, Adam Snook and Chuck Hawkins. She is deeply grateful to work with her family and closest friends on a daily basis, building their dreams together.