Denis Calabrese, The Patriot Group

Denis Calabrese is a communications professional providing public policy, governmental affairs, public relations, and media relations services to a wide variety of clients. He is one of the nation's foremost policy/issue advocacy experts. In addition, senior elected officials at the federal, state and local levels have utilized Mr. Calabrese's services, as have some of the largest and most high-profile corporations in the world, numerous prominent national law firms, medium and small businesses, non-profit foundations, professional associations, professional sports franchises, and many others. A representative list of past or current corporate clients include: Amana, AT&T, BP, Chevron Companies, Continental Airlines, Exxon Company, Google, KB Homes, McKinsey & Company, Methodist Hospital System, NL Industries, Shell, Sherwin Williams, Texas Instruments, and Union Carbide Corp.

Mr. Calabrese has planned and managed multi-million dollar national advertising campaigns, and directed national and international communications programs for extremely high profile business transactions, policy initiatives, and high-stakes litigation. He has also developed and run the strategic, grassroots and public relations elements of sophisticated legislative and regulatory initiatives on the local, state and national levels. Mr. Calabrese's Washington DC experience includes having served as the first Chief-of-Staff for the past Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mr. Calabrese also has extensive experience leading communications teams for high-stakes, high-profile litigation, including asbestos litigation, breast implant litigation, diet drug litigation, employment discrimination litigation, environmental contamination litigation, gulf war syndrome litigation, lead paint litigation, mold litigation, and tobacco litigation.

As a policy expert and media spokesperson, Mr. Calabrese has appeared on, or in, virtually every major television, radio and print media outlet including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Hannity and Colmes, and many others.

Mr. Calabrese is a graduate of Rice University in Economics and Political Science, and taught a course on political communications at his alma mater. He is also an entrepreneur with multiple successful business startups to his credit, including founding and still operating the largest running/walking fitness program in the world, USA FIT.