A veteran communicator, Foley has a wide range of public affairs agency and political and public affairs campaign experience, including managing director of Powell Tate/Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and founding partner of Prism Public Affairs and the Seattle-based public affairs agency Gogerty Marriott. His expertise includes crisis communications and media training, and he has served clients in sectors as diverse as aviation, defense and wind energy. Foley also brings expertise in crisis management and media training for high-profile media and congressional appearances.
In addition, Foley served as VP, worldwide communications, at Northwest Airlines, convention manager for the 1996 Democratic National Convention, and Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He has more than 20 years of experience on Capitol Hill and served as chief adviser to Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and former Representative Dick Gephardt (D-MO).
Ketchum Washington's Public Affairs group has won PRWeek's Public Affairs Campaign of the Year for three of the last five years, and, earlier this year, in Europe, Ketchum merged with Pleon, Europe's largest strategic communications consultancy, with a deep public affairs platform.
In a related move, Pleon's Cornelius Winter was recently named to lead the agency's European Public Affairs network, based in Berlin, Germany. In that role, Winter will be working most closely with colleagues in London, Brussels, Madrid, Rome and Paris, as well as with Foley and the agency's Washington office. The agency's European offices will operate under the name Ketchum Pleon beginning Jan. 1, 2010.
Winter has been with Pleon for more than eight years, leading the consultancy's Berlin and Brussels offices as managing partner. Prior to that, Winter was editor of the German national radio station Deutschland Radio. He also worked as a strategist on environmental and health issues, as well as on foreign and security policy issues for members of the European Parliament and the German Parliament (Bundestag).
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