Background
Singer Bonjean Strategies is a full service public affairs firm helping corporations, coalitions and associations navigate through the greatest change of American government in a generation.
At the nexus of policy, politics and communications, Singer Bonjean Strategies offers its clients a bipartisan approach to help them achieve their strategic communications and crisis management objectives.
The firm is led by Phil Singer and Ron Bonjean who have both worked at the highest levels of the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the Administration and national political campaigns.
Phil Singer and Ron Bonjean are well-recognized voices in national political and media circles. Their relationships with top government officials and the media elite make them a powerful communications combination.
Phil Singer
With a decade of experience that includes two presidential campaigns being part of a team that orchestrated the Democratic takeover of the Senate in 2006, Phil Singer is a veteran campaign strategist and public relations expert.
Singer has worked for some of the most demanding campaigns and active political figures of the last decade, including Senator Chuck Schumer for whom he has worked in a variety of capacities since 2000. Phil counseled Senator Schumer on all media-related matters and has played a key role in developing the New York Senator’s national profile. He served as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s communications director under Schumer during the historic 2006 campaign cycle.
Most recently, Phil served as a senior adviser to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s winning 2010 campaign. He was also a top official for Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign where he ran the war room and was part of the senior group that directed the campaign. In 2004, Phil was the Kerry-Edwards campaign’s national spokesperson, serving as the campaign’s primary liaison to the White House press corps. He has also worked for Congressman Steve Rothman and former Senator Robert G. Torricelli.
Ron Bonjean
Ron Bonjean has served in leadership offices in the U.S. House and Senate as well as the U.S. Department of Commerce. Before leaving Capitol Hill to start Singer Bonjean Strategies, Ron was chief of staff to the Senate Republican Conference under Senator Jon Kyl.
Previously he was a top strategist and adviser for House Republicans as director of communications to then-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. He also served as press secretary to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and director of public affairs under U.S. Secretaries of Commerce Don Evans and Carlos Gutierrez. Of note, Bonjean is the first person to serve as the lead spokesman in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Bonjean also handled dozens of high-profile public relations crises during his tenure including the historic presidential recount, the September 11 attacks, the Anthrax Attack, Lott’s comments regarding Strom Thurmond, Dubai Ports, Hurricane Katrina and the House Congressional Page scandal.
