Chad Kolton is a co-founder and Managing Partner o
Blueprint Communications
He had previously co-founded and worked as a partner in the American

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firm HDMK. Through that role he was also a hired spokesperson for

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. He lived in Moscow from 1998 to 2000 as program director for the

International Republican Institute The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization. Most of its board is drawn from the Republican Party. It is committed to advancing freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more iss ...

, which promotes democratic values. He later worked as public affairs chief for the

Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Exec ...

(FEMA). From 2003 through 2005 he was press secretary for the

Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...

. In March 2005,

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selected him to be senior vice president in charge of their new strategic communications practice. In August 2006, Kolton returned to his work in the Bush administration as a spokesperson for the

Director of National Intelligence The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior, cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Commu ...

. 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. He left that position in June 2007. He would later become a spokesperson the

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, before again returning to the private sector in 2010.

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