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 Chip Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of The Glover Park Group. He was named to this position in January of 2007. A founding partner of GPG, Chip has led the firm from start-up to one of the nation’s fastest growing independent communication companies. Smith has helped GPG through a number of critical expansions, including its strategic partnership with Chicago based private equity firm Svoboda Collins LLC. In addition to directing the operations of the company, Smith continues to counsel GPG clients on corporate communications, reputation management, advertising, and message development. Over the past seventeen years, Smith has worked in both the public and private sectors, providing communications and strategic services to a broad range of clients, including leading corporations, non-profits, industry associations, and candidates for political office. He has been featured as a guest and commentator on popular broadcast and cable news programming. Prior to joining GPG in 2001, Smith was the Deputy Campaign Manager and the Chief of Staff for Al Gore's 2000 Presidential campaign. As a member of the senior strategic team, he designed, built, and directed the campaign’s day-to-day operations and acted as the campaign’s Chief Financial Officer. From 1996 to 2000, Smith was the Chief of Staff to the President and CEO of MCI. In addition, he directed external and internal communications and overall messaging to Wall Street, industry analysts, media, regulators, customers, shareholders, and employees. Prior to joining MCI, Smith was an Executive Vice President at Shrum, Devine & Donilon, Inc., a leading political media and public relations consulting firm. There he helped conceive, produce, and place media in nine winning U.S. Senate campaigns and seven winning U.S. Congressional campaigns. Smith began his career as a legislative assistant to Senator Wyche Fowler Jr., (D-GA). A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Smith received his B.A. with Distinction in American Studies from Colby College and his MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He lives with his wife and two children in Alexandria, VA.
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