The Principals
Daniel Casse, Managing Partner
Kendall Bentz, Managing Director
Rob Gluck, Managing Director
Michael Hodin, Managing Director
Julie Pierce, Managing Director
Kevin Stach, Managing Director
Daniel Casse
Managing Partner
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Daniel Casse has been an advisor to CEOs and their companies for over 15 years. He has long-served as president of G100, an organization led by Jack Welch and Larry Bossidy that regularly gathers 100 CEOs of significant global companies. In his work at G100 and as a consultant, Daniel has worked on issues ranging from antitrust regulation to global public affairs to intellectual property protection. He has coached CEOs on critical decisions, trained dozens of senior leaders on positioning their business, and drafted hundreds of high-stakes speeches, articles, and white papers on behalf of clients. He has served as a special assistant to the President in the White House, an advisor to four presidential candidates, and as author of more than 50 opinion articles and essays published in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications.
Kendall Bentz
Managing Director
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Kendall Bentz has a decade of experience organizing and executing high-profile corporate reputation campaigns on a range of high-stakes issues. With a list of clients that has included the world’s leading blue-chip corporations, Kendall has helped clients build valuable relationships with some of the nation’s top scholars, think tanks, and opinion leaders. He has led national message campaigns that moved public opinion on telecom and high technology issues, antitrust enforcement, and mass tort litigation. He has helped dozens of CEOs and senior executives raise their public profiles, and has advised global consulting corporations, major lodging and hospitality firms, biotech and telecom companies, and non-profits.
Rob Gluck
Managing Director
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Rob Gluck has more than 15 years of experience developing and leading high-profile advocacy and thought leadership initiatives for Fortune 100 companies, national political campaigns, and major trade associations. His background includes work with the Walt Disney Company, the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, the U.S. Travel Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former U.S. presidential candidate Lamar Alexander. In 2006 he helped create the Discover America Partnership, a coalition of travel companies to increase international visitation to the U.S. The effort generated hundreds of articles and the passage of eight separate pieces of federal legislation. Travel Weekly called it the "industry's biggest legislative victory in a decade."
Michael Hodin
Managing Director
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Michael Hodin has more than 30 years of experience in international public affairs and policy, primarily with Pfizer where he was a senior executive and created and built Pfizer’s international public affairs capacity in over 120 country organizations. He led the transformation of public affairs in Pfizer and the pharmaceutical industry from one focused on crisis and issues management to a core business competency and pioneered moving those skills and capabilities into the development process of medicines. His innovative approaches to public policy have driven strategic advances in intellectual property and trade, health reform solutions, management of public health crises, and embedding stakeholder interests into basic operating systems. Prior to Pfizer, Mike served for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on foreign and trade policy and was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution. Mike is also Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of Emigrant Savings Bank as chair of its compensation committee. Mike has written and lectured extensively on foreign policy subjects at Columbia, Georgetown and Oxford Universities and is the author of “U.S. Foreign Trade Policy: The Case of Steel.”
Julie Pierce
Managing Director
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Julie Pierce has more than 25 years of experience providing strategic communications counsel and support for senior executives. Her specialty is helping leaders and managers figure out what they have to say and how to say it, in ways that engage stakeholders and advance business objectives. Over the years, Julie has crafted hundreds of strategic plans, high-stakes presentations, and white papers and articles that position her clients as thought leaders in their area of expertise. Besides coaching individuals and teams, Julie leads training workshops on how to organize complex ideas and structure clear, compelling presentations, memos, and proposals. Julie's corporate experience includes 15 years with McKinsey & Company, including stints as the global director of internal communications and director of communications for the Greater China region, and ten years with the Economist Intelligence Unit, where her last role was as vice president and editorial director for Asia-Pacific. She also served as executive director of communications at Tufts University.
Kevin Stach
Managing Director
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Kevin Stach has provided strategic counsel and communications advice to dozens of Fortune 500 companies for the past 12 years. During that period, he has led crisis communications efforts on some of the highest profile antitrust, class action, and product liability trials of the last decade and helped companies develop and manage litigation communications teams. He has also assisted his corporate clients in high-stakes regulatory battles, complex legislative initiatives, and thought leadership campaigns. Prior to his corporate work, Kevin served as a senior policy and communications advisor to two presidential campaigns and a Washington, DC-based think tank.