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Chad Griffin
Partner
Chad Griffin, managing partner of G|S, a strategic communications and strategy firm has spent his career taking on the toughest fights against the most entrenched, well-financed interests like tobacco, oil and the right-wing to shape the policy debate around some of the nation's most important issues, including clean energy, universal health care, global climate change, stem cell research, early childhood education, and equal rights. A veteran of the Clinton White House communications team, Griffin was the youngest staffer ever to serve in the West Wing.
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From his experiences in the White House and from leading a series of successful ballot initiatives and change campaigns, Griffin has developed a campaign-style approach to communications that has become his professional trademark. He’s used that trademark and his expertise in crisis and litigation communications to build a name for himself. Harnessing the hard-nosed, fast-paced style of the political world, the passion of the philanthropic community, the strategy of the business sector and the creativity of the entertainment industry, Griffin has helped to advance the causes of a powerful roster of change-making clients such as U.S. Green Building Council, philanthropist Steve Bing, children’s welfare and civil rights advocates Michelle & Rob Reiner, entertainment executive Chris Albrecht, filmmakers Janet & Jerry Zucker and Doug Wick & Lucy Fisher, CuresNow, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, CH2M HILL, Advanced Cell Technology, The California Endowment, The Walmart Foundation, The American Foundation for Equal Rights, and Al Gore's Live Earth global concert series. Griffin's experience and expertise have made him a go-to resource for reporters at the intersections of Hollywood and politics, and he is regularly quoted by both national and international media. In fact, Griffin joined Al Gore and Keith Olbermann as one of The Advocate magazine's 2008 People of the Year and was named one of Details magazine’s 2010 Mavericks. Griffin is on the board of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and is cofounder and board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Griffin is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and currently resides in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Felix Schein
Senior Strategist
Felix Schein works primarily with clients active in the high-technology, sustainable business, and political arenas. This past year, Schein developed and executed media plans for an online social fundraising platform, several architectural firms developing sustainable design practices, and for entities engaged in the 2010 elections. He is currently working with the US Green Building Council on a media plan designed to elevate its business profile and contributes actively to G|S litigation and crisis communications practice.
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Prior to joining G|S, Schein worked as a reporter and producer for NBC News, contributing to the development of stories for the NBC Nightly News and Today programs. Schein began his broadcast career as a researcher for Meet the Press, and subsequently served as a researcher and associate producer for NBC’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Andrea Mitchell. In 2004 he was part of NBC’s groundbreaking efforts to embed reporters inside political campaigns. Schein traveled with and reported from the Presidential campaigns of Howard Dean and John Kerry. Following the 2004 Presidential race, Schein was recruited to manage one of the nation’s most closely fought gubernatorial races, a role that saw him develop a campaign and communications plan widely regarded as one of the most successful of the 2006 election cycle. Schein is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and is pursuing an MBA at the University ofCalifornia’s Haas School of Business. He currently resides in San Francisco.
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Brandon Hersh
Media Relations Manager
Brandon Hersh currently works with The California Endowment and the American Foundation for Equal Rights, managing both messaging and media outreach.
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Prior to joining Griffin|Schake, Brandon served as a Press Secretary and Executive Outreach Director for Communications & Booking at Media Matters for America. In those roles he developed communications plans and scripted issue based talking points for progressive speakers booked on network news. While pursuing his master's degree in political communication, Hersh served as the University of Florida's representative for the Center for American Progress' Campus Progress and as a research assistant for the university's College of Journalism, focusing on 2004 election news coverage. Hersh also worked for CNN's YouTube Presidential Debate team and was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Political Communication.
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Greg Neil
Account Coordinator
Greg Neil manages political and charitable giving for a variety of clients, including Rob & Michele Reiner, Jerry & Janet Zucker, Doug Wick & Lucy Fisher, and Chris Albrecht. Neil is also responsible for media outreach for the National Academy of Sciences’ Science & Entertainment Exchange. He previously worked in motion picture development at Paramount Pictures and in public relations at Sunshine, Sachs & Associates. Neil received a BFA from New York University's Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.
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