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Steve Bryant, Senior Director, North |
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Current position:
Steve joined Peritus in January 2007 and currently serves as the Senior Director of the firm’s North region. He has extensive experience in public relations and public affairs campaigns and has played an integral role in building the firm’s healthcare portfolio, which includes work for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Pfizer, Passport Health Plan and Caremark Rx among others. Steve is a strategic communications and issue advocacy specialist adept at building partnerships among non-profit, civic, healthcare and business organizations. He has strong state government and healthcare industry relationships across Indiana and Kentucky and is a veteran of numerous national and state advocacy campaigns for regulated industry clients.
Before Peritus:
Steve is skilled at handling complex and complicated issues for clients. Working with PR-giant Hill & Knowlton in Florida’s capitol city, he consulted on some of the state’s highest-profile issues including property insurance, nuclear power, affordable housing and real estate development. He provided on-the-ground support to one of the nation’s largest insurers after hurricanes ravaged the southeast from 2003 to 2005, coordinated a statewide campaign to build support for nuclear power, and provided crisis communications counsel to a major New Orleans university after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In the complex arena of real estate development, Steve helped developers around the country to successfully navigate the rigorous path from planning to ground breaking to grand opening. His most notable success was coordinating a statewide grassroots and media campaign which helped bring more than $170 million in additional state funding for affordable housing.
Steve has also worked extensively in consumer and tourism marketing, achieving significant national television and print media coverage for clients like Visit Florida, Travel Michigan, the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, the Southern & Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association and the Convention & Visitors Bureaus in Memphis, Nashville and San Antonio.
Additional information:
Steve is a graduate of Florida State University. He serves on the board of the American Diabetes Association of Kentucky, is a member of the Young Professionals Association of Louisville and a volunteer and foster parent for several animal rescue groups in Kentucky.
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