ANDREW FRANK
Founder and President
Expertise in: Crisis Communications, Public Affairs, Litigation Support, and Media Skills.
Andrew is an expert in creating communications strategies particularly focused on difficult situations, overseeing and implementing crisis preparation, public affairs efforts, managing product recalls, financial and/or regulatory issues, and identifying and managing communications issues around complicated litigation.
Andrew founded KARV eleven years ago, after working as Managing Partner at Strategy XXI Group and Kreab since 1997. As a political appointee in the Clinton Administration in 1993, he was the Communications Director for the US Information Agency, the White House communications representative for coordination of media during the 1994 GATT signing in Morocco; Deputy Spokesman for the US Delegation to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights; National Security Council media representative in Haiti; worked on more than two dozen overseas trips of the President and Vice President, including APEC and G-7 Summit Meetings; and worked with more than a dozen federal agencies and cabinet officials. He was a founder of Volunteers for Democracy and worked in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine during their transitions to democracy, from 1989-1991.
Andrew is the co-author of Revolution Road Trip and has written articles for several American and foreign newspapers, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Board Member of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in New York.
He is a former Adjunct Professor of Crisis Communications at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business, and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, American University, among others. Andrew lives between New York City and Los Angeles with his wife and has two grown daughters (doing awesome things).
Andrew has been recognized as a leading U.S. litigation PR & communications practitioner by the prestigious Chambers & Partners directory of global litigation support service providers.