David Schlosser's experience in strategic communications covers a broad range of roles for corporate, public, and political clients. Through different consulting and corporate roles, Schlosser has participated in successful public affairs initiatives, political campaigns, and public relations efforts across the country. He is currently the manager of international public relations for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and the corporate communications executive for a start-up publishing company, 1st World Library.
Immediately before starting his own consulting business, Analects ink, Schlosser was a senior account executive for Springbok Cohn & Wolfe, a Young & Rubicam agency specializing in media and analyst relations for technology companies. He led account service teams that represented multiple clients offering a range of technologies, including microprocessor design, direct-to-home satellite broadcasting, systems integration and Web application development, customer relationship management software, eCommerce analytics and reporting, enterprise web application management, and electronics distribution.
He joined Springbok following his tenure as campaign manager for a U.S. Congressional race in his home state of Kansas. The election garnered international attention and earned stories on ABC's "Nightline" and PBS' "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly," and in George, The Wall Street Journal, and London Daily Telegraph. Prior to the election, Schlosser was senior manager, public affairs for Cerner, the world's largest health care information technology company, where his portfolio included the successful initiation of a unified strategy for media, government, community, and investor relations.
From 1997 until 1999, Schlosser worked for Austin-based Public Strategies, Inc. as a public affairs consultant dedicated to SBC Communications, then the country's second-largest telephone company and now the largest. Schlosser handled the daily media relations related to legislative and regulatory strategy, including coordination of the successful effort opposing a competitor-sponsored election initiative, at Southwestern Bell Telephone's Arkansas headquarters. He then moved to Washington, DC to initiate SBC's legislative and regulatory media strategy for the national news media, including daily contact with specialized trade publications, Internet news services, and major outlets such the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as Bloomberg, Reuters, and Associated Press.
Prior to his tenure with Public Strategies, Schlosser was a government affairs, political, and public relations consultant with Pete McGill and Associates in Topeka, Kansas. At the oldest and principal public affairs agency in the state, Schlosser handled high-profile clients including Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems and The Williams Companies, the largest natural gas company in the country. Schlosser also coordinated a successful two-year effort to defend the state's energy efficiency building standards and managed public relations and government affairs for the Kansas Information Consortium, a company that grew to become the country's largest provider of public information via the Internet, the publicly-traded National Information Consortium.
Schlosser joined Pete McGill and Associates (now Gaches, Braden, Barbee & Associates) after a year as the director of public affairs and consumer protection for Kansas' utility and natural resources regulatory agency. Before his gubernatorial appointment to that position, he was political director for Kansas Governor Bill Graves' first primary and general elections.
Schlosser graduated from the University of Texas' LBJ School with a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1992 and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, with a minor in history and a concentration in Asian studies, from Trinity University in San Antonio. He grew up in Topeka, Kansas and now resides with his wife and their two dogs in Flagstaff, Arizona.