Anchored within PPHC, the world's largest
multi-jurisdictional policy and public affairs group, Concordant
integrates PPHC's capabilities with full-service, strategic
communications.
Concordant will feature a cohesive client
experience, delivering results under a unified plan, team, and
pricing structure.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Public Policy Holding
Company, Inc. (PPHC) (LON: PHC), the world's largest
multi-jurisdictional policy and public affairs group, launched
Concordant, a new policy and communications advisory firm designed
to serve organizations at the crossroads of market risk and
transformational growth. Concordant is the eighth independent
agency with the PPHC group. PPHC's operating companies are
retained by over two-thirds of the Group's 1000+ clients, which
includes companies active in all major sectors of the U.S. economy,
trade associations, and NGOs.
Anchored within PPHC, Concordant extends beyond reputation and
risk management, weaving together industry-leading government
relations, public affairs, audience insight capabilities and
full-service, strategic communications to protect and propel an
organization's strategy. In a landscape often complicated by
fragmentation and inefficiency, Concordant is distinguished by a
cohesive client experience, delivering results under a unified
plan, team, and pricing structure.
Concordant will be led by Chief Executive Officer, Sarah Wills, former Executive Vice President,
and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Cardinal Health, where she
led communications, government relations, enterprise marketing and
brand. Prior to Cardinal Health, Wills served in leadership
roles within government relations, communications, and corporate
strategy at GE, and led corporate affairs at Tempus, an AI-enabled
precision medicine company.
Before her corporate career, Ms. Wills spent nearly fifteen
years in politics and policy, initially as an associate for
David Axelrod and Associates, then
several years as a Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill, Senior
Policy Counsel to the Governor of New
Jersey, and Executive Director for New Jobs for
New York, a 501(c)(3) launched by
then U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Wills, a graduate of
Georgetown University Law Center and Illinois Wesleyan University,
will be based in Chicago.
"Globally, policy and politics shape every major market theme,
from technology driven growth opportunities, to the risks generated
from shifting geopolitics and monetary policy," said Ms. Wills. "In
today's uniquely dynamic market, Concordant empowers c-suite
leaders and Boards with more control over their operating
landscape."
Concordant will feature executives, drawn from leadership teams
of Fortune 20 companies, who have a rich understanding of corporate
strategy and deep experience leading through rapidly evolving
contexts. The firm will build multi-disciplinary teams for those
areas where organizations are investing for long-term growth and
resilience, such as AI, progress towards a healthier planet,
advancements in precision medicine, and the reconfiguration of
global supply chains.
"Today's launch of Concordant is aligned with PPHC's organic
growth strategy and will accelerate our growth in the highly
competitive market for corporate advisory solutions," said
Stewart Hall, CEO of PPHC. "I'm
pleased to welcome Sarah to the PPHC Group and look forward to
partnering with her to continue building and integrating PPHC's
unique bi-partisan policy expertise, nationwide coverage, and broad
public affairs and communications capabilities across our operating
companies."
For more information on Concordant, visit
www.concordantadvisory.com.
About Concordant
Launched in November 2023, Concordant is a policy and
communications advisory firm designed to serve organizations at the
crossroads of market risk and transformational growth. A subsidiary
of PPHC, the world's largest multi-jurisdictional policy and public
affairs group, the Company extends beyond reputation and risk
management, weaving together industry-leading government relations,
public affairs, audience insight capabilities and full-service,
strategic communications to protect and propel an organization's
strategy. In a landscape often complicated by fragmentation and
inefficiency, Concordant is distinguished by a cohesive client
experience, delivering results under a unified plan, team, and
pricing structure.
For more information, visit www.concordantadvisory.com.
About PPHC
Incorporated in 2014, PPHC is a US-based
government relations and public affairs group providing clients
with a fully integrated and comprehensive range of services
including government and public relations, research, and digital
advocacy campaigns. Retained by over two-thirds of its 1000+
clients, including corporates, trade associations and
non-governmental organisations, the Group is active in all major
sectors of the U.S. economy, including healthcare and
pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy, technology, telecoms,
and transportation. PPHC's services support clients to enhance and
defend their reputations, advance policy goals, manage regulatory
risk, and engage with US federal and state-level policy makers,
stakeholders, media, and the public.
PPHC operates a holding company structure and currently has
eight operating entities comprising Crossroads Strategies, Forbes
Tate Partners, Seven Letter, O'Neill & Associates, Alpine Group
Partners, KP Public Affairs and MultiState Associates. Operating in
the strategic communications market, the Group has a strong track
record of organic and acquisitive growth, the latter focused on
enhancing its capabilities and to establish new verticals, either
within new geographies or new related offerings.
For more information, see www.pphcompany.com.
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