Prior to Breitenbush Partners, Andy co-founded DrivePath Advisors, a boutique financial communications firm.  He counseled clients in oil & gas, banking, financial services, fintech, retail and consumer products on a range of financial communications, executive positioning and investor relations matters, and managed all financial and operational functions as the firm scaled.  Andy also led external communications for KPMG in the U.S., helping to position the firm’s executive team, industry leaders and corporate initiatives through proactive reputation building communications and issues management efforts. 

Before that, Andy was a Senior Vice President in Edelman’s New York Financial Communications practice, counseling banks, commercial real estate developers, asset managers and private equity firms on proactive communications strategies and issues management assignments. 

His representations included:

• SAP in its $8B acquisition of Qualtrics

• Discovery in its $15B acquisition of Scripps

• Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives in their $29B merger of equals

• Vets First Choice in its acquisition of Roadrunner Pharmacy and Atlas Pharmaceuticals, and its Reverse Morris Trust merger with Henry Schein’s pet health business

• Capital Constellation in it’s $750M private equity seeding joint venture with Wafra, RPMI Railpen and the Alaska Permanent Fund, and subsequent investments in emerging private equity firms

• Experian in its investment in Finicity

• Synchrony Financial in its acquisition of Pets Best Insurance

• Hanmi Bank, Wells Fargo, Booking Holdings, SeaWorld, and Feeding America on executive transitions

• Wells Fargo, Lantern Asset Management, PWC, and House Canary on crisis and issues management

• Walker & Dunlop, Monday Properties, Housing Policy Council, Guggenheim Investments and Wafra to drive ongoing reputation and positioning

Prior to Edelman, Andy led external communications for Fannie Mae, helping the company to rebuild its reputation after the financial crisis, counseling executives on media and stakeholder engagements and navigating complex legal, regulatory and crisis matters.  In previous roles, Andy served as communications director to a senior Member of Congress and led public affairs engagements for a global public relations firm.

Andy is a graduate of George Washington University, where he majored in English and studied Japanese and Psychology.