Phil Armstrong - Chief Operating Officer And Corporate And Public Affairs Lead Phil Armstrong has spent his 27-year career working across multiple communications disciplines, including corporate communications, consumer and B2B marketing, public affairs and advertising. His client work focuses on brand positioning, marketing and sales strategy, issue management campaigns and crisis communications. Phil's category experience includes financial services, technology, packaged goods, telecommunications, energy and the environment, health care and manufacturing, and his clients have included Fortune 500 companies such as Dupont, United Parcel Service, Northrop Grumman, Unilever and Pfizer; many trade associations, including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce; and several federal government agencies. His crisis work includes managing litigation in civil and criminal cases, government investigations and bankruptcies. Prior to ZENO, Phil was Executive Vice President and head of the Washington office for Euro RSCG Magnet; managing partner at Earle Palmer Brown, a leading national advertising agency; and senior vice president and group director in the Washington office of Hill and Knowlton. A journalism and economics graduate of the University of Iowa, he started his career in politics and served in the Reagan Administration as a speechwriter and press secretary at the Department of Defense and the Department of Education. |