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Gary Chandler, CEO: Chandler helps corporations and nonprofit organizations build their brands and bottom lines in many ways. He is an award-winning and record-setting strategist who influences public opinion, public policy and business decisions around the world.
He has generated millions of dollars in revenue, stockholder equity and media coverage for clients in numerous industries. Chandler also is an author who has worked with New York publishers for 30 years.
Chandler leads all strategy and the majority of tactical work. His accomplishments include:
- Worked with Google to teach advertising agencies around the world about emerging best practices in digital advertising.
- Helped Google Cloud market cybersecurity and artificial intelligence solutions to new enterprise clients across North America;
- Saved the National Civic League from financial collapse by generating more than $2 million in grants and sponsorships. Developed the Ambassadors In Education Award and convinced MetLife Foundation to sponsor the program for public schools in 30 cities;
- Produced the Global Forestry Conference in Indonesia, which helped avert an international trade war over tropical timber, while developing best practices in forest management;
- Convinced stakeholders and regulators to accept a novel remediation plan that preserved millions of dollars in stockholder equity for Newmont Mining, while protecting watersheds in Southwest Colorado from historic mine waste;
- Defended patient rights from a legislative threat in Congress. The award-winning campaign earned media coverage in Time, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Today, CBS Evening News, Nightline, Good Morning America, CNN and more;Saved taxpayers in Colorado millions of dollars with a campaign for Medicaid reform.
- Generated millions of dollars of new public funding for behavioral healthcare. Produced an award-winning stakeholder campaign that featured news legend Mike Wallace and Colorado’s Governor Romer;
- Generated more than $1 million in cash and in-kind donations for Big Brothers of Metropolitan Denver. Helped build the agency into the largest chapter in the United States. Recruited members of the Denver Broncos and Continental Airlines to support the campaign;
- Subcontracted with several of the most influential firms in Colorado, including GBSM, Hays, Hays & Wilson, MGA Communications, the National Civic League and Tracy-Locke/BBDO Advertising & Public Relations; and
- Worked with New York publishers to produce several books for students about environmental conservation. Also published the Language and Travel Guide To Indonesia in collaboration with Hippocrene Books (New York, NY).
