Richard Ades
Richard Ades provides strategic counsel for clients in the areas of public policy, issues management, crisis communications and litigation and legislative support. Ades works closely with clients in strategic planning, message development, spokesperson training, and media preparedness in tailoring strategic communications plans to support specific goals identified by clients whether it involves all manner of communications support from preparing for a Congressional hearing to dealing with public and media onslaught on a specific issue.
He has worked on a wide range of issues including intellectual property matters in the music industry, food biotechnology, stem cell research, carbon monoxide in meat, obesity, mad cow disease, the 2003 blackout, the 2006 spinach recall, healthcare and biotechnology. Ades has provided counsel for communications campaigns around a number of legislative issues in the food, insurance, financial and entertainment sectors. His crisis experience includes work for large multinational corporations, universities and small biotech firms. Ades has counseled on messages, writing and communications strategy for senior executives of Fortune 100 companies as well as for the entertainment industry, universities, government agencies and associations.
Prior to joining Prism, Ades was a Senior Vice President with Powell Tate|Weber Shandwick, a Washington D.C. public affairs firm, for more than five years. Prior to Powell Tate, Ades served in the Clinton administration as senior speechwriter and communications advisor to Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, now head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). His portfolio included food safety, biotechnology, the environment, rural economic development, foreign aid, production agriculture, permanent normal trade relations with China and global warming.
A former writer and producer for motion pictures and television in Hollywood, Ades applies his unique background as a storyteller - looking at situations from multiple angles -- to his communications work to develop non-traditional strategies for clients.
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