Joel Benenson
Joel Benenson (born July 24, 1952) is an American pollster and consultant known for his leading role as a senior strategist for Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.[1][2]
Early life
Born in New York City. He grew up in southeast Queens and Manhattan with his family. Benenson is a Queens College graduate.[3]
Career
He is the CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, a strategic consulting firm, and serves as a senior communications and polling advisor to the White House.[4] He has also been a strategist for U.S. senators, governors and mayors from around the country, as well as Fortune 500 companies. He played an integral role as a pollster for the DCCC in 2006, when the Democrats won back the majority in the House of Representatives. Democratic National Committee.[5]
In 1995, he work as a Political Journalist for the Daily News in New York[6]and serving as Communications Director for Gov. Mario Cuomo’s 1994 campaign.[7] He was previously a Vice President at the New York ad agency FCB.[8]
During his career, Benenson has served as a consultant to some of America's most prominent companies and CEOs, including Procter & Gamble’s A.G. Lafley, General Electric’s Jack Welch and AOL’s Bob Pittman. He has also helped guide corporate clients through some of the most notable communication challenges in the past decade.[9] He was the lead strategic researcher for Procter & Gamble’s launch of Olestra, the fat substitute;[10] he was instrumental in helping AOL manage its capacity crisis in the late ’90s; and he helped a New York City coalition block Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plans for an Olympic stadium in Manhattan.[11]
Benenson is also the Co-Founder of iModerate Research Technologies[12][13]
In January 2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton hired Benenson and Robby Mook as strategists.[14]
References
- ↑ http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/emerging-clinton-campaign-draws-heavily-obama-alumni
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/13/hillary-clinton-recruits-chief-strategist-media-advisor-for-2016-effort/
- ↑ CAPUZZO, JILL (3 February 2008). "Obama Seldom Asks His Pollster to Play the Role of an Oracle". New York Times. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ↑ C-SPAN Video Polling in the 2012 Election, 9/4/12
- ↑ Goodspeed, Peter. "Pollster fine-tunes President's message." National Post, 19 June 2009
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/03robama.html?_r=0
- ↑ http://www.bsgco.com/main/newsID/57/do/news_detail
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/feb/09/pass-notes-joel-benenson
- ↑ Issenberg, Sasha (1 September 2012). "Why Campaign Reporters Are Behind the Curve". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/company/benenson-strategy-group/corporate-solutions-772367/product
- ↑ http://ldi.upenn.edu/events/2011/04/08/untitled-56
- ↑ http://www.imoderate.com/joel-benenson-co-founder-of-imoderate-to-speak-at-the-arf-industry-leader-forum/
- ↑ http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news17780.htm
- ↑ http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/hillary-clinton-robby-mook-joel-benenson-2016-114024.html