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Terry Holt
Partner
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Terry Holt has spent the past three decades managing media campaigns both in the government and private sector. He has served as the director of winning political campaigns, and has managed large-scale communications and advocacy efforts on issues ranging from health care reform and national energy policy to financial services, telecommunications, immigration and trade.
Holt has served as a senior communication strategist on three presidential campaigns, including Bush-Cheney 2000 and again in 2004, when he served as National Spokesman. He has also served as a senior advisor to the Republican National Committee, and managed winning congressional campaigns across the country.
Holt also enjoys strong ties to Capitol Hill. He is a former spokesperson for now Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH). From 2001 to 2003, Holt served as communications director for then-House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-TX), and he previously served as communications director for the House Budget Committee.
Holt has become a trusted political analyst and regularly appears on numerous cable news programs and talk radio shows. He has also been a frequent guest on Fox News "Hannity," MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" and CNN's "Larry King Live" and "The Situation Room."
Trent Duffy
Partner
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Trent Duffy has over two decades of experience in media relations, strategic communications and public affairs, and has served in top positions in both the White House and on Capitol Hill. In addition to his government experience, he has provided media and strategic counsel to a client list that includes: the Financial Services Roundtable Housing Policy Council, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Natural Products Association, the Direct Marketing Association, and other corporate, association and coalition clients.
Duffy served President George W. Bush in the White House for four years, most as deputy assistant to the president and deputy press secretary. In that role, he was a top spokesperson and media strategist on numerous public policy issues, including: economic policy, energy, health care, homeland security, telecommunications, taxes and trade.
Prior to serving in the West Wing, Duffy served as communications director for Mitch Daniels at the White House Office of Management and Budget. There, he developed and led government-wide communication strategies for the president's 2003 and 2004 budgets, and was heavily involved in promoting the president's economic program and the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
Duffy also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill. As communications director for the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, he developed a strong policy background and an ability to understand, translate and persuasively advocate on highly technical issues such as tax and trade policy, Medicare and Social Security.
In 2001, Duffy served as press secretary for the Republican National Committee. He has also worked as communications director for U.S. Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) and legislative aide to U.S. Representative Harold Rogers (R-KY). In 1997, he was a spokesperson for New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman's successful re-election campaign. Duffy also worked as assistant manager for federal affairs at Parsons Brinckerhoff, an international engineering consulting firm.
Reporters still frequently seek Duffy's views on current political news. U.S. News and World Report said he "easily gave the best quotes out of the West Wing during his three years," and that "reporters like him because he was knowledgeable on tricky and technical issues ... he was also honestly blunt." Duffy has been a guest on Fox News Channel, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," CNN's "American Morning," and C-SPAN's "Washington Journal."
Jim Morrell
Partner
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Jim Morrell has more than fifteen years of communications experience spanning private business, political campaigns, Capitol Hill and the White House. Over the course of his career, he has provided strategic communications advice to many top companies, trade associations, and government officials.
Morrell has served as a partner at HDMK since its founding in 2007. At HDMK, he has worked with a diverse group of clients helping them to hone their messages and craft successful communications strategies designed to impact public policies.
In 2006, Morrell served as deputy chief of staff for the House Republican Conference under then-Chair Deborah Pryce (R-OH), where he oversaw all of the Conference's public communications operations. Prior to joining the Conference, he worked at a public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C. crafting crisis communications plans, entailing both media and lobbying strategies, for numerous clients including Fortune 500 companies.
Morrell previously served as spokesperson in the White House Office of Media Affairs. In that capacity, he was the principal White House spokesperson during the 2004 presidential campaign for media outlets in fourteen states, including the battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Michigan. In 2000, Morrell worked as a writer for the Bush-Cheney campaign in Austin, Texas where he handled rapid response.
Morrell has worked in numerous capacities on Capitol Hill. He was communications director for Congressman Rob Portman (R-OH), where he worked extensively on tax and pension issues. Morrell also served as speechwriter for House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL). He began his career in the office of then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX), eventually serving as senior legislative aide.
Chad Kolton
Partner
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With more than fifteen years of experience in the public and private sectors, Chad Kolton has established an expertise in developing public relations strategies that successfully influence policymaking and effectively respond to crises at the global, national and regional levels. As a spokesperson for Republican and Democrat administrations, he has been quoted in nearly every major media outlet in the country and has created and placed opinion content in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs.
Kolton has extensive experience in providing executive-level public relations counsel, and in implementing comprehensive media strategies. He has headed the public affairs offices for both the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In both positions, he was tasked with developing communications strategies with international implications and directing national crisis response communications.
Kolton has also served as the press secretary for the White House Office of Management and Budget. In this role, he created and articulated messages to support Administration initiatives on fiscal and tax policy as well as federal regulations.
In the private sector, Kolton has provided strategic communications counsel for corporate, political and government clients, including developing strategic public relations and crisis communications plans, reorganizing communications departments and providing comprehensive media relations support. His work encompassed a broad range of issues, including international affairs, homeland security, trade, energy and regulatory oversight.
Kolton began his career on Capitol Hill as deputy press secretary for the House Republican Conference under its then-Chair, U.S. Representative John Boehner (R-OH), the current speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Michael E. Hacker
Senior Vice President
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With more than 15 years of experience providing strategic Washington counsel to Members of Congress, Fortune 500 companies, national non-profit organizations and trade associations, Michael Hacker is a seasoned legislative and campaign professional specializing in issue advocacy, legislative strategy and public relations.
Hacker comes to HDMK from the Office of Assistant Democratic Leader and former Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, the House Democrats' chief vote counter, where he served as Floor Director and Senior Advisor. In that capacity he worked directly with Members of Congress and senior staff to move an ambitious legislative agenda through the House of Representatives.
In that role, he acted as the Democratic leadership's primary liaison to the business community and was responsible for a broad legislative and political portfolio, including telecommunications, energy and financial services policy. Immediately prior to his position with the Majority Whip, he was a director at DC-based public affairs firm, where he focused on crisis communications and government relations for a number of high-profile engagements.
Hacker began his Washington career in Michigan politics, serving in a variety of roles for House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Dingell, including as Communications Director and Senior Policy Advisor. He was also a special assistant to then Democratic Whip David Bonior. A veteran of numerous congressional political campaigns, he has worked on every Democratic Presidential campaign since 1996.
Hacker, a native of Mt. Clemens, Michigan, is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he earned degrees in English literature and American history. He is an avid duck hunter, fly fisherman and Michigan Wolverine football fanatic who currently resides in the District of Columbia.
Liz Snyder Bowman
Senior Associate
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Liz Snyder Bowman joined HDMK in 2010, having served in top strategic communications and public affairs roles in both the corporate and nonprofit sector. Bowman has created comprehensive media strategies for state and national advocacy campaigns; and is skilled in using strategic communications, media relations and social media to further policy goals. She has also ghost written op-eds, blogs and letters to the editor for leaders in public policy.
Bowman served as the media strategist for The Pew Charitable Trusts' Pre-K Now campaign and was heavily involved in promoting multiple Pew Center on the States' reports. She also managed the media outreach and served as a spokesperson for Strong American Schools' ED in 08 campaign, a project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. In this capacity, she generated positive news coverage for the campaign, managed staff in multiple states during the 2008 presidential election cycle and planned highly-visible events for business leaders and elected officials on the Strong American Schools' steering committee.
Bowman also managed media and government relations for DynCorp International, a major aviation services, U.S. government contractor and global services provider that currently operates in more than 40 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.
In addition to her professional experience, Bowman holds a master's degree in political communication from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in communication from Virginia Tech.
Christin Fernandez
Senior Associate
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Christin Fernandez joined HDMK in 2011 after working as a producer for Fox News Channel, bringing years of broadcast news planning, production and strategy experience to HDMK.
Fernandez began her career working on Fox News Channel's foreign, national and political breaking news desks, covering major news stories, including the 2008 presidential election cycle and the Democratic National Convention, where she was featured on-air as a news desk correspondent on location in Denver, Colo.
She came to Washington as a planning producer with WTTG Fox 5, and worked later as a bureau producer with Fox News Channel. She has covered the President's State of the Union Address, as well as to various high-profile stories on location. Fernandez also coordinated news coverage and guest appearances for Fox's 17 owned and operated affiliates across the United States. She has written and edited story packages which aired both on national and local news stations.
Fernandez's strategic communications experience includes her media tour promotion work with on-air talent such as Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly. She most recently coordinated weekly on-air media promotion for the Dr. Oz Show. Fernandez holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and communications from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Lisa Chapman
Associate
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Lisa Chapman is an associate at HDMK, assisting with research, writing and implementation of earned media campaigns. Chapman has been involved with several digital media projects, successfully implementing modern media tools like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs into existing public policy campaigns. In just one snapshot of her digital capabilities, Chapman engaged over 100 bloggers, generated over 250 blog posts and maintained several active social networking platforms. Prior to joining the HDMK team, she reported for The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., and The Hamilton Journal News in Hamilton, Ohio. Chapman has a BA in Journalism and Political Science from Miami University in Ohio.
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