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| Rick Kelly |
Director of Crisis Communications
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Rick heads Triad’s crisis communications practice and provides communications consulting services to a variety of the firm’s issue management, public policy and traditional public relations clients.
Rick has spent nearly 30 years in the public affairs and communications arena, as a reporter, corporate communications manager and consultant. He has led account teams for local, regional and national clients and provided strategic counsel in numerous high-profile cases. His clients have included AT&T, Alabama Power, the former Adelphia Business Solutions, the former AMP Inc., Reliant Energy and YMCA of the USA.
He helped guide the Milton Hershey School's participation in a 60 Minutes segment first broadcast in 2001, and he provided communications counsel and media relations support to the Hershey Trust Co. when it explored the controversial sale of Hershey Foods in 2002.
He has fostered successful working relationships with reporters and editors from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Times of London and Financial Times, along with correspondents and producers for virtually all national network news organizations.
Before coming to Harrisburg, Rick worked for a national market research firm, devising research-based communications strategies for a variety of energy and telecommunications utilities. He’s a veteran of the nuclear utility industry, having headed the corporate communications function for Toledo Edison (now part of FirstEnergy Corp.) for nine years.
Rick began his communications career as a newspaper reporter and covered the Ohio Statehouse and politics for The (Toledo) Blade. His reporting won national, state and local awards.
He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and an MBA. Currently, he is a board vice chair of the United Way of the Capital Region, where the chairs the Communications and Marketing Committee. He is active in the Pennsylvania Public Relations Society. |
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