Andre Claridge

President & Founder

With a penchant for telling brand stories and improving the bottom line, Andre is business-savvy public relations professional and corporate strategist with over twenty-five years of battle-tested leadership experience and measurable client accomplishments.

Andre has developed and executed successful public relations, public affairs, and brand-empowering strategies for Forbes Global 2000 companies, multi-generational family-owned businesses, emerging market companies, large industry associations, not-for-profits, unions, and political campaigns.

Comfortable in front of the camera, Andre has made guest appearances on New York’s only statewide political news program, Capital Tonight (Spectrum Cable) offering public relations insight and political analysis of state and national politics.

Some of Andre’s former positions include speechwriter and policy staffer for Governor George E. Pataki, VP at Mercury Public Affairs, and VP at Fleishman Hillard.

Andre graduated from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh with a BA in Political Science and successfully completed the Senior Executives Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Best Celebrity Encounter

I don’t always go to fundraisers, but when I do I like the ones hosted by “The World’s Most Interesting Man” – Jonathan Goldsmith. Famous for the Dos Equis “The World’s Most Interesting Man” ad campaign, Goldsmith was hosting an exclusive evening of storytelling to raise money for a local charity in Manchester, Vermont.

The night became very “interesting” during the auction portion of the evening when I found myself engulfed in a bidding war with Goldsmith for a signed, life-size, cardboard standee of “The World’s Most Interesting Man” — it was as if we were living one of his magnificent movie life experiences.

Words of Wisdom

Define the debate, win the argument