Mitchell Point Communications -- Greg Stanko

Greg Stanko
Senior Partner

Greg is the public relations pro who can turbo charge a successful campaign or refocus a waning effort -- regardless of industry of PR discipline. He specializes in implementing effective strategies, managing complex issues and leading high-performance teams. The tools of the trade he deploys include media relations, coalition management, content development, crisis communications and corporate communications.

At Mitchell Point Communications, he has led a variety of high-profile projects, including:

handling media relations and research for SolarWorld throughout its year-long second trade case against Chinese and Taiwanese solar manufacturers;
providing strategic counsel for the Government of Scotland’'s Washington representative around the 2014 Independence referendum and visits by members of the First Minister’s government to the United States in 2015; and
assisting various clients with drafting, editing and placing op-eds in outlets, including The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Denver Post, The Oregonian, USNews.com and The Hill. A full list can be found here.

Greg also serves as a communications adviser to Locals, a local organic food non-profit grower. He is a member of PRSA.

Prior to Mitchell Point, Stanko worked for 14 years at Ogilvy Washington where he specialized in devising and implementing communications and Washington visibility programs for public affairs clients.

At Ogilvy, he handled advocacy-based media relations campaigns for clients including SolarWorld, DuPont, LexisNexis, Earthlink, the government of Puerto Rico and the American Chemistry Council. This included outreach to trade reporters, print and broadcast reporters, columnists and social media leaders at general interest outlets, trade publications and online outlets. Stanko also managed third-party outreach programs for SolarWorld, a coalition of rural telecommunications companies and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. He has written op-eds for clients that were published by The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Washington Times, The Huffington Post and numerous regional and trade publications.

Under his own name, he has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun and The San Diego Union-Tribune among other publications.

Prior to joining Ogilvy PR, Greg worked at the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI), a Washington think tank, and the Republican staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has a bachelor's degree in Political Science, with a German minor, from Drew University.