Sean Garrett

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Communications Leader @ Affirm
San Francisco, CA, US
About Sean Garrett

I've been consistently reimagining comms his entire career.I created Mixing Board in 2020 — now a community of 450+ comms and brand marketing leaders who share knowledge with each other and organizations looking to gain expert perspectives.Mixing Board is the third new-model organization that I've conceived and helped create. It's an evolution of his eight years of experience as co-founder of Pramana Collective — the cutting edge consultancy of top former heads of communications — that helped organizations get better aligned and navigate big inflection points. Clients included Airbnb, Comcast, Conde Nast, Dreamworks, Dropbox, Greylock Partners, Grammarly, Nickelodeon, Pandora, and Slack. In 2003, I co-founded 463 Communications, the industry's first tech policy communications firm that bridged the gap between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.I've also consistently been at the edge of technology industry trends. I helped found the first CEO tech industry policy organization; was an early employee and head of comms at the seminal online music start-up Listen.com; and, as VP of comms and public affairs, was Twitter's first comms and marketing hire.In 2011, TechCrunch accurately called my team "the best in-house tech PR team in the business".I've also managed big teams at top tech comms agencies, run statewide California political campaigns, consulted a Lithuanian political party for their campaign during the first free Parliamentary election since WWII; and, worked in the California governor's office as a kid right out of school.I was named by the Holmes Report as one of the top 25 innovators in communications in 2019.

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Communications Leader
San Francisco, CA, US
Sean Garrett Work Experience Details
  • Affirm
    Communications Leader
    Affirm
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Mixing Board
    Founder And Convener
    Mixing Board Jun 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Mixing Board is a community of brand and communications leaders that share knowledge with each other and organizations that can benefit from accessing members’ expertise, experience and mentorship.
  • Advisor
    Strategic Communications Consultant
    Advisor Jan 2021 - Present
    As part of or as a complement to Mixing Board, I engage in select consulting or advisory engagements with organizations approaching or in the midst of important inflection points. This work ranges from being a sounding board for advice in key moments to deeper work where I employ the methodologies that we developed at Pramana to create organizational alignment, shape (or reshape) narratives, develop proactive communications strategies and design comms/marketing org structures, accordingly. When doable, I'll pull in former Pramana stars and Mixing Board experts onto these projects.Recent work has included supporting Oatly, a highly visible global non-profit, a well-funded stealth AI start-up, a global venture firm, and an early-stage fund
  • Pramana Collective
    Co-Founder
    Pramana Collective Feb 2013 - Jan 2021
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    The Pramana Collective partnered with the likes of Alibaba, Airbnb, Awesomeness, Color, Comcast, Conde Nast, Dreamworks, Dropbox, Fidelity, Greylock Partners, Grammarly, Lightspeed Ventures, Medium, Nickelodeon, Pandora, Playboy, San Francisco 49ers, Sesame Street, Slack, Virgin Hyperloop, Webflow, and about 150 other organizations at every stage and across dozens of domains. Brilliant team members have gone on to work in amazing leadership roles at Accel, Lightspeed Ventures, Lowercase Capital, All Raise, Square, Slack, Playboy, the Bloomberg presidential campaign, Affirm, the ACLU, DuckDuckGo, Pinterest and so on. Among these various projects, I played a quasi-internal role with Slack, Greylock, and Pandora as these respective organizations either built out or evolved their communications functions. The Pramana methodology and approach lives on in work where Pramanians come together to consult on projects via Mixing Board.
  • Executive Office Of The President
    Advisor
    Executive Office Of The President Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
    Washington, Dc, Us
    I was asked to convene a handful of top communications, marketing and product experts for a 'sprint' to help the Obama White House remake its approach to digital communications from both structural and strategic standpoints in order to better communicate directly to its constituencies. Our teams followed up with the White House to support implementation and to provide new ideas through the end of the administration.
  • Self Employed
    Consulting
    Self Employed Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
    Satellite Beach, Florida, Us
    As I was formulating what Pramana could be, I consulted for Greylock Partners, start-ups and advised executives. I also took an extended break someplace warm with my family.
  • Twitter
    Vice President, Communications
    Twitter Oct 2009 - Nov 2011
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Built Twitter's comms team and played a leading role in the development of the company's marketing, public affairs and government relations functions. Led communications around all product changes, Twitter's launch and growth of its advertising products, enhancements in service stability and international expansion. Coordinated broad consumer media campaigns that included appearing on Conan O'Brien, NPR's Fresh Air, and Good Morning America. Targeted vertical efforts to focus on major areas of interest on Twitter, including coverage in Sports Illustrated, Variety and Politico. Oversaw public policy and public affairs initiatives and planned events such as President Obama holding a Twitter Townhall at the White House.
  • 463 Communications
    Co-Founder & Partner
    463 Communications Dec 2004 - Jan 2010
    463 was the first firm to bridge the divide between Washington and Silicon Valley.463 worked with the likes of Cisco, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Sun Microsystems, AMD, Nokia, Consumer Electronics Association, Disney, Fox, VeriSign and TechNet before a fellow co-founder later evolved the firm into Vrge Strategies.
  • Bite Communications
    Vice President
    Bite Communications Aug 2003 - Dec 2004
    San Francisco, California, Us
    While leading some of the agency's largest client teams that spanned from consumer to enterprise, I helped manage the post-acquisition transition from Applied Communications.
  • Applied Communications
    Vice President
    Applied Communications Jun 2001 - Aug 2003
    I left Listen.com to broaden my experience and work on the big enterprise clients that Applied teamed with. Two months after starting, I led the win of the VeriSign account and led that account until starting 463 Communications. Applied had some significant management changes and client shifts in 2003 before it was bought by Next Fifteen (which also owned Bite Communications). During this period, I was one of two vice presidents who helped keep the ship afloat and keep the rest of the team onboard.
  • Listen.Com
    Head Of Communications
    Listen.Com Mar 1999 - Jun 2001
    Us
    After the experience at Listen, I didn't reasonably think that I would have another ride that was quite so crazy. Until Twitter.I was one of the first 25 employees and joined pre-launch. We quickly became one of the and most respected companies of the era as we articulated the future of the Internet and music and also served as a model for a well-run and civically thoughtful dot com. Having more than $140 million in funding and the investments of all five major labels also helped. I lead all communications efforts at Listen, including consumer and tech PR, public affairs and events. Unfortunately, after Napster disrupted us and dot com bubble burst, these efforts also included managing communications around four rounds of layoffs.
  • Alexander Communications
    Director, Tech Policy Communications
    Alexander Communications Jan 1997 - Mar 1999
    After working on a 1996 shareholder litigation campaign that impacted the tech industry while at PBN, I knew that tech needed to formalize its efforts to better and proactively manage policy matters. I began working with some of the people who would later found TechNet, the industry's first CEO/VC-led policy and political organization.To create additional opportunities, I joined Alexander -- which was the top tech PR agency in the business. There, I started and and lead the first technology policy capability in the Valley. I was able to launch TechNet with a team and ran the group's communications for its first two years.
  • The Pbn Company
    Senior Account Executive
    The Pbn Company Oct 1993 - Jan 1997
    Washington, D.C., Us
    After working on a political campaign in Lithuania and my stint in the governor's office, PBN was an oddly perfect fit of California politics and public affairs efforts in the former Soviet Union. At PBN, I worked on a variety of statewide political campaigns, crisis communications efforts for major consumer businesses and with clients leading transformations in Russia and the Ukraine.
  • Edelman
    Account Coordinator
    Edelman Aug 1993 - Oct 1993
    New York, Ny, Us
  • Office Of Governor Pete Wilson
    Assistant To The Director Of Communications
    Office Of Governor Pete Wilson Nov 1990 - Sep 1992
    The best possible communications education a still-forming young adult could possibly get. I got to work with some of the smartest, most generous professionals I've ever met -- folks who not only wanted to teach me but also wanted get my opinion.I also learned that partisan politics wasn't for me and made a fairly rash (but ultimately wise) decision to leave the job for Lithuania three weeks after submitting my name and experience to a non-profit.

Sean Garrett Education Details

  • Ucla
    Ucla
    Political Science

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