John Buckley, a 35-year political and corporate communicator most recently serving as managing director for The Harbour Group, has shifted to Subject Matter in Washington as the firm's first CEO.
Subject Matter is the combined PR operation of Home Front Communications and lobbying shop Elmendorf|Ryan, which merged in 2015. Partner Dan Sallick said the agency spent the past year integrating operations and saw this is as the right to bring in a leader to manage and plan its next phase of expansion.
Buckley was a press deputy to the Regan-Bush re-election campaign in 1984 and moved on to serve as press secretary for Rep. Jack Kemp in Congress and in his presidential campaign.
He moved to the agency realm with Robinson, Lake Lerer & Montgomery (now Finsbury) and later served as senior VP of communications for Fannie Mae and executive VP for communications at AOL.
Sallick is joined by partners Steve Elmendorf, Jimmy Ryan and Paul Frick.
Buckley penned two novels, "Family Politics" and "Statute of Limitations."
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