Chad Kolton

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Chad Kolton is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Blueprint Communications. He had previously co-founded and worked as a partner in the American public relations firm HDMK. [1] [2] Through that role he was also a hired spokesperson for Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund. [3] [4]

He lived in Moscow from 1998 to 2000 as program director for the International Republican Institute, which promotes democratic values. [5] He later worked as public affairs chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [5] From 2003 through 2005 he was press secretary for the Office of Management and Budget. [5]

In March 2005, Cassidy & Associates selected him to be senior vice president in charge of their new strategic communications practice. [6]

In August 2006, Kolton returned to his work in the Bush administration as a spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence. [7] Kolton was credited with making the DNI's office more accessible to journalists, such as by providing regular off-the-record briefings by senior analysts on global hotspots. [8] He left that position in June 2007. [8]

He would later become a spokesperson the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terrorist Screening Center, [9] before again returning to the private sector in 2010. [10]

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  6. ↑ Holmes, Paul (2005-03-18). "Cassidy Launches Strategic Communications Unit". Holmes Report.
  7. ↑ "Intelligence czar gets new press spokesman". UPI. August 23, 2006.
  8. 1 2 Waterman, Shaun (June 24, 2007). "DNI spokesman leaves for private sector". UPI.
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