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| Kate Bedingfield |
Brunswick Group has hired Kate Bedingfield, who was Joe Biden’s communications director, as a partner in its DC office.
She is a long-time Biden advisor, who helped launch his campaign in 2019 to notch the Democratic presidential nomination.
Bedingfield was deputy campaign manager and communications director for the Biden-Harris 2020 ticket.
Prior to her Biden work, she was VP-communications at the Motion Picture Assn., and Monumental Sports & Entertainment, owner of the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals.
Henry Timms, Brunswick CEO, said his firm’s clients “face complex, high-pressure issues every day, and there are few advisors who have navigated as many of those as Kate.”
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