Kasey S. Pipes
Serves as Partner and Co-founder of the firm. He specializes in public relations, crisis communication, media training, executive communications, content strategy, digital marketing, issue advocacy, reputation management, and policy development and analysis.
Before becoming a public affairs consultant, Kasey spent ten years in politics as a communications and policy adviser. In 2006, he served as chief campaign speechwriter and senior communications adviser to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to that, he served President George W. Bush for five years. From 1999-2000, he wrote speeches and provided policy analysis for the Bush for President Campaign. From 2001-03, he wrote speeches and provided policy research and analysis in the Bush White House. In 2004, he was chief author of the National Republican Party Platform. In 1996, he served as deputy campaign manager and campaign spokesman on the Granger for Congress Campaign that culminated in the first Republican victory ever in Texas Congressional District 12. From 1997-99, he served as communications director and senior legislative assistant to Congresswoman Kay Granger (now the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee) where he advised her on foreign policy, national security, transportation, health care, education, and tax policy. Later in his career, he returned to the Granger team and served as a campaign political and communications consultant from 2005-2013.
He began his career as a research intern in the California office of former President Ronald Reagan in 1995.
Throughout his consulting career he has also provided public affairs work for numerous companies and coalitions, including: Under Armour; IMG Worldwide; Creative Artists Agency; The University of Texas at Austin; DFW International Airport; Facebook; Google; Microsoft; Amazon; Intel; the Task Force on American Innovation (a coalition of research universities and tech companies); Verizon; Justin Boot Company; the Bowl Championship Series; Crescent Real Estate; Alcoa; Tarrant County College Foundation; the American Association of Universities; the City of Fort Worth; Tarrant County; the Texas General Land Office; the Financial Services Forum; and multiple national and international energy companies. The public figures he has consulted for include: Governor Greg Abbott; Secretary of Commerce Don Evans; Ambassador Earle Mack; Bill Gates; Ken Mehlman of KKR; and Bono of the One Campaign.
In the last few years Kasey has served as chief media spokesman for multiple statewide and national campaigns and several coalitions and corporations and has successfully helped clients get coverage in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Bloomberg and The Washington Post as well as placed clients on the air at CNBC, CNN, Fox Business News, Fox News, Bloomberg, C-SPAN and SIRIUS XM Radio.
Kasey is also a recognized historian whose 2007 biography of Dwight Eisenhower, “Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality,” was released by World Ahead Publishing and became an Amazon.com New Arrival Bestseller. It was praised by The Wall Street Journal as a “highly readable and credible account Eisenhower’s struggle with race and civil rights” and by George F. Will as “mind-opening.” In July 2019, his second book, “After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon,” was released by Regnery Publishing and Simon & Schuster Digital and quickly reached the Amazon.com New Arrival Bestseller List for Presidential Biography. The book was another critical success with the Chicago Tribune calling Kasey “the lotto winner” for gaining access to Nixon materials that no historian had researched before. He also served as the Norris Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College from 2009 until 2019. His political writings have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, Politico, The San Francisco Chronicle and realclearpolitics.com. He has also appeared as a political commentator numerous times on the Fox News Channel, Bloomberg and C-SPAN. And from 2007-2017, he regularly wrote reviews of new biographies and interviewed authors about their work for The Dallas Morning News.
A native of Fort Worth, Kasey holds a bachelor’s degree from Abilene Christian University, as well as a graduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and another graduate degree from Harvard University where he was named a winner of the Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Thesis. He is also credentialed by the American Marketing Association as a Professional Certified Marketer® .
He is also involved in several civic and charity leadership roles, including: as a Member of the University Board at Pepperdine University; as a Member of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy Board of Advisors; as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Eisenhower Foundation; as a Member of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association Board of Directors; as a Member of the Charles Schwab Challenge PGA Tournament Committee at Colonial Country Club; as a Member of the Davey O’Brien Foundation Board of Trustees; as a Member of the Board of Directors for LivingStone International University in Uganda; and as a Member of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies Alumni Advisory Board.
Previously, Kasey served as the Norris Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute from 2009-19. And from 2002-2010 he also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy Reserve.
Kasey splits his time between Washington, DC and Fort Worth where he lives with wife, Lacie, and their three children, Lincoln, Crosby and Betsy Joy.