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Harry Clark, Managing Partner, Stanwich Group, LLC
Harry Clark has provided public policy, political and strategic communications advice to companies, trade associations and political leaders for the past 25 years. His distinctive expertise is in helping companies develop strategies and deploy resources to successfully manage complex public policy issues, strategic transactions or organization-threatening crises. He has been involved as an advisor on some of the most prominent and complex policy issues, business transactions and corporate crises of the past two decades.
Mr. Clark conducts many of his advisory engagements through Stanwich Group LLC, a Greenwich, CT, based consultancy of which he is managing partner. He also serves, Of Counsel, to the Brunswick Group, the preeminent independent, international public affairs consultancy headquartered in London with offices in Beijing, Berlin, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New York, Paris, Stockholm and Washington, D.C.
Harry Clark is the architect of and consultant to the newly established Private Equity Council, a Washington-based trade association serving the interests of the world’s largest private equity firms and their investors. Members include Apollo, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Carlyle, Hellman & Friedman, KKR, Madison Dearborn, Providence Equity Silver Lake Partners, Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Mr. Clark is public policy and political consultant to Google, Inc. assisting the company as it builds an international public policy and government relations operation. He has been actively engaged in assisting Google deal with issues ranging from Net Neutrality, internet privacy and child safety and intellectual property. Harry also advises Freddie Mac as it addresses a range of governance, accounting and political issues in a dramatically altered federal regulatory and legislative environment. Mr. Clark also serves as communications consultant to the senior executive management team of Citigroup.
Mr. Clark advised Worldcom/MCI and the MCI Creditors’ Committee on strategies to accelerate MCI’s emergence from bankruptcy and removal from the U.S. Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) suspended list, thereby allowing MCI once again to contract with agencies and departments of the United States Government.
During 2002-2003, Mr. Clark served as Counselor to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). He advised USTR on strategic political issues and on alliance building with the U.S. business, trade association and NGO communities.
Harry Clark retired in 2001 as managing partner of Clark & Weinstock, a public policy and communications consulting firm he founded in 1987. Clark & Weinstock was acquired by the Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC) in 1996.Among some of Mr. Clark’s current and former clients: American Red Cross, Arthur Andersen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly & Co., Guidant Corporation, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Knight Securities, Lazard, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch & Co., MetLife, Microsoft, Morgan Lewis, NASDAQ, the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), Montgomery Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of America, Vestar Capital Partners and Wasserstein Perella.
Mr. Clark has been active in the national public policy arena as an advisor to Senator Bill Brock (TN) and Congressman Jack Kemp (NY). He also served as a television consultant to Executive Office of the President during the Reagan Administration and as communications strategist to the National Republican Senatorial Committee under the leadership of Sen. Richard Lugar and executive director Mitch Daniels.
Mr. Clark currently serves on the board of directors of the Sound Shore Fund (a $3B mutual fund), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). He also serves on the Executive Committee of the boards of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Homes for Working Families and the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as on the Public Affairs Committee of the U.S. Tennis Association.