John Ullyot, a corporate, agency and political PR advisor, has been named communications director for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month.
Ullyot was a senior VP for Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Washington before moving to High Lantern Group as a managing director. He spent the last year running his own public affairs and PR shop, Brighton Strategy Group, with clients like DuPont.
He directed communications for the Senate Armed Services Committee under Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) and the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs under Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.).
On the corporate side, he was VP of corporate communications for AOL Europe and led Intel's Washington office.
Ullyot also served as a Marine Corp. intelligence officer in French Guiana.
The GOP confab hits Cleveland July 18-21 and is expected to draw a wide global audience with the expected nomination of Donald Trump for president.
Ullyot reportedly took the director slot over a deputy title for the convention on the resignation June 20 of Michael Caputo, a Trump advisor who stepped down after cheering on social media the ouster of campaign chief Corey Lewandowski.
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