Chad Kolton

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]