Larry Kopp has nearly 35 years of experience in the advocacy and nonprofit sectors, the political and public policy worlds and the entertainment industry as a trained storyteller and communications expert.Larry founded The TASC Group nearly two decades ago in order to work with the most dynamic and inspiring leaders and organizations in the nonprofit, political advocacy and business worlds. He has worked on some of the most significant and high-profile public relations campaigns in the country. He has helped manage multi-million dollar political campaigns at the state and local level and worked on several presidential campaigns. He has built political grassroots organizations in more than a dozen states. Larry also had a lengthy career as a professional actor before joining the political and nonprofit worlds, appearing in Hollywood blockbuster films and TV shows, including the Farrelly Brothers hit Dumb and Dumber, major appearances on Law and Order, ABC’s TV series Supercarrier, the film Alien Nation starring Mandy Patinkin and James Caan, among others. Larry performed in over 40 plays in New York and Chicago, premiering the works of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet and Shel Silverstein. Larry appeared in Mamet’s film Homicide that premiered at and opened the New York Film Festival. He is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company along with Mamet, W.H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. He has appeared as a crisis communications expert on major news shows and has been quoted extensively in dozens of major national media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Reuters and The Associated Press. His writings have appeared in PR Week Magazine.In early 2020, Kopp was the keynote speaker at the International Crisis & Risk Communications Conference.Larry graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and attended the prestigious acting program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He also graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Columbia University.He is married with three children and lives in Montclair, New Jersey.