Expertise

30+ years of strategic counsel to chief executives and senior officials. Provides business-focused leadership, credible challenge and communication advice necessary to succeed in complex situations, challenging regulatory and political contexts, and critical strategic opportunities. Proven leadership in developing and executing organizational and executive visions and building strong reputations.

• Provides reputation counsel regarding messaging, media engagement and appearances
• Advises on media, government, regulatory and community affairs regarding strategic acquisitions and other business opportunities and challenges
• Writes and edits thought leadership material, speeches and articles

Deputy Comptroller for Public Affairs, 2016-2021 | Director & Special Advisor for Public Affairs, 2005-2016 - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC 

• Led strategic communication and public affairs for regulatory agency overseeing $15 trillion federal banking system, spanning four Presidential administrations, periods of growth, recession and crisis
• Advised eight agency heads and other senior officials on public policy and communication strategy to modernize and expand bank activities, promote consumer access, and enhance bank supervision
• Headed engagement campaigns and coordinated stakeholder advocacy of important, but controversial, policies and rules related to the banking to promote economic growth and opportunity
• Shaped stakeholder discourse regarding banking policy, modernization and consumer protection 
• Prepared executives for appearances and engagement with the media, Congress and other stakeholders

Deputy Director, Corporate Communications, 2002-2005 - Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Arlington, VA 

• Directed communication operations for 18,000-person finance and accounting operation
• Planned, executed and evaluated internal and external print, broadcast and online initiatives serving financial needs of millions of active duty, reserve and retiree military members and their families
• Served as national spokesman and provided media training to senior executives
• Authored senior executive testimony, executive messages and news releases raising support for policies and programs related to finance and accounting activities supporting the nation’s defense

Director, Corporate Communication & Projects, InterImage 2001-2002
Executive Producer, MilitaryAdvantage (Military.com) 2000-2001

• Directed communication for fast growing technology company with direct impact on revenue
• Led marketing and information technology projects for Fortune 500 clients and federal agencies 
• Organized support for the grand opening of National D-Day Museum
• Planned, produced, and evaluated multimedia products for site reaching 2.2 million monthly

Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Air Force (USAF), 1991-2000

Various locations including the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Staff, the Pentagon

• Advised USAF Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force on web plans, programs and policies
• Directed award-winning web programs as Chief of Technology Integration for USAF Public Affairs
• Communicated key messages and coordinated editorial coverage in national and trade media
• Served as White House Liaison during the 50th anniversary of D-Day (May-June 1994)

• Member Board of Advisors, OASIS Center International, 2022-Present
• Member Board of Advisors, Metallicus, 2022-2024

• Harvard University Kennedy School’s Senior Executive Fellow, 2008
• Master of Arts in Communication, Arizona State University, 1997
• Public Affairs Officers Course, Department of Defense Information School, 1991 
• Bachelor of Science in English, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1991