Chad Kolton is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Blueprint Communications. He had previously co-founded and worked as a partner in the American public relations firm HDMK. ^{[1] [2]} Through that role he was also a hired spokesperson for Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund. ^{[3] [4]}

He lived in Moscow from 1998 to 2000 as program director for the International Republican Institute, which promotes democratic values. ^[5] He later worked as public affairs chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). ^[5] From 2003 through 2005 he was press secretary for the Office of Management and Budget. ^[5]

In March 2005, Cassidy & Associates selected him to be senior vice president in charge of their new strategic communications practice. ^[6]

In August 2006, Kolton returned to his work in the Bush administration as a spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence. ^[7] 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. ^[8] He left that position in June 2007. ^[8]

He would later become a spokesperson the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terrorist Screening Center, ^[9] before again returning to the private sector in 2010. ^[10]

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