David M. Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Directed the Academy's media relations program, securing high-quality, targeted media coverage of the Academy on insurance and retirement issues in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington.
• Positioned and supported Academy experts as thought leaders on key issues as speakers at external organization meetings and conferences including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Prudential, universities, and actuarial.
• Organized and scripted the association's annual meeting, including its 50th anniversary gala dinner. Negotiated contracts for high-profile paid speakers like Bob Woodward and former Sen. Chris Dodd and entertainers.
• Re-configured and re-launched the association's LinkedIn company page, more than quadrupling its followers.

• Served as deputy staff member, responsible for managing the association in the absence of the Executive Vice President.
• Planned and marketed ASA’s two flagship national conferences (including negotiating hotel contracts), resulting in zero attrition fees in the past 8 years, and increasing convention attendance by more than 60 percent.
• Supervised two professional staff.
• Managed communications, technology, education and meetings budgets of more than $400,000.
• Served as on-the-record organizational spokesperson and media contact, prepared association leaders and staff for interviews, and produced PR campaigns, resulting in positive media placements.
• Introduced, managed and marketed the association’s first mobile site, mobile apps, webcasts, podcasts, RSS feeds, and social media groups, growing ASA’s LinkedIn group to more than 1,800 members.

• Managed the third-generation re-design of the ASA Web site, including an upgrade to the.NET platform, and planned and implemented the association’s online document and membership databases.
• Developed the Contractors’ Knowledge Network brand, including launching the Contractors’ Knowledge Depot online bookstore and The Contractor’s Compass, a full-color quarterly educational journal.
• Led ASA as a founder in 2001 of the Construction Certifications Coalition, an organization dedicated to increasing professionalism in the built environment.
• Transitioned educational publications to digital formats and eliminated costly third-party pallet storage.

Alexandria, Va.

• Ran media campaign on passage of federal Miller Act reform, increasing the penal sum of payment bonds on federal projects; the resulting coverage earned ASA's Executive Vice President a Newsmaker of the Year Award from.
• Aggressively staked out ASA’s position to trade press in intra-industry controversy regarding model contract forms.
• Planned and managed the Subcontractors Transfer of Risk Action Plan PR campaign, earning ASA member Richard B. Usher an ENR Newsmaker of the Year Award.
• Managed the second-generation re-design of the ASA Web site.
• Edited the award-winning bimonthly trade newspaper, The Subcontractor.
• Edited and marketed Lien and Bond Claims in the 50 States and other business management and contract negotiation publications.

• Prepared NNA leaders for AP, C-SPAN, and major radio/daily newspaper coverage of community newspaper issues.
• Launched biweekly Leadership Report newsletter for NNA state committee members.
• Proofread Publisher’s Auxiliary, the biweekly newspaper serving America’s community newspapers.
• Wrote talking points for industry executives and news releases on public policy and newspaper industry issues.
• Served as media contact for the association.

Arlington, Va.

• Managed NNA’s weekly government relations newsletter.
• Served as NNA’s representative on the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, a plaintiff in the landmark case finding key parts of the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional under the First Amendment as it.
• Managed the public policy issue of public notices.

Ma, Philosophy

Ba, Summa Cum Laude, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa