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Michael Causey
As senior client counsel, Michael Causey brings more than fifteen years of high-level public affairs and journalism experience in telecommunications and technology issues. He has worked closely - both as a senior strategist and speechwriter - with a number of telco and communications CEOs and executives. His experience ranges from public relations, positioning and branding for emerging technology companies to advocacy on rate rebalancing, digital divide and literacy issues.
As a Senior Vice President leading the telecom and technology practice at Ruder Finn in Washington, D.C., Causey led teams that worked with Verizon, Acumen Solutions, WTOP/Federalnewsradio.com on a myriad of issues.
Prior to that, Causey was a Senior Managing Director at Hill & Knowlton. While there, he opened and ran the firm's Northern Virginia Technology Office. In that capacity, he worked with a range of clients, including Motient, GuideComm, XM Satellite Radio, and PlanetGov.com.
Causey also spent more than three years at Powell Tate as the Group Vice President for the Communications Technology Practice at that firm. At Powell Tate, Causey led account teams for clients that included Bell Atlantic (and later Verizon), GTE (before and after the merger with Verizon), Landmark Systems, Digex, United States Telecom Association, US WEST, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, and COMSAT. He also led the team that won a 2000 "Silver Anvil" award for excellence in Public Relations for a GTE Literacy campaign, "Check Into Literacy."
As an award-winning journalist, Causey was Editorial Director of the Telecom Publishing Group in Alexandria for more than four years. There he ran a newsroom that produced eight newsletters (including The Report on AT&T, for which he served as editor before becoming TPG's Editorial Director). The newsroom also produced an online daily news publication, and dozens of book-length studies of key communications firms and industry trends, including Inside Sprint, Inside The RHCs, and Inside Motorola.
In addition, Causey's speeches for hi-tech leaders have been reprinted in Vital Speeches of The Day. As a telecommunications analyst, his articles have appeared in USTA's Teletimes magazine, Potomac Tech Journal and Mass High Tech, among others. He is also the author of several books, including "Winning at the FDA," "Vanguard Utilities Invade Telco Markets," and "Competitive Allies: Utility & Telco Convergence."
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