Edison Electric Institute, the D.C. trade group representing for-profit utility companies in the U.S., has brought in Democratic aide Ryan Rudominer as executive director of communications.
Rudominer, recently a staffer at D.C.-based PR and research shop New Partners Consulting, is a former regional and national press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
He works under Brian Wolff, senior VP of external affairs and a former aide to ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Seventy-nine-year-old EEI reps shareholder-owned electronic companies handling 70 percent of the U.S. electronic power sector, including American Electric Power, El Paso Electric Co., Exelon and TECO, to name a few.
Thomas Kuhn, who headed the Nuclear Energy Council before its merger with the Nuclear Energy Institute, heads EEI.
“We are very pleased to have found a person as capable as [Rudominer] to lead our communications operation,” Kuhn said of the new PR staffer.
Rudominer was previously communications director to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and press secretary for Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.).