Todd Irons brings more than a decade of strategic communications, political, and public policy experience to ViaNovo. He contributes his expertise from the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
Previously, Todd served as Vice President of Eskew Strategy Group, which in May 2005 merged into ViaNovo. Earlier in his career, he managed numerous public affairs campaigns at PR firms along Washington, D.C.'s K Street corridor on behalf of various clients, particularly those in the energy and health care industries. His accomplishments include helping direct a nationwide communications effort for the Health Benefits Coalition, an alliance of nearly 30 national business groups and health plans including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, that prevented job-killing versions of the "Patients' Bill of Rights" from being enacted into law.
Todd also served as Legislative Assistant to former-U.S. Congressman Dan Miller (R-FL), advising Mr. Miller on issues ranging from the federal budget and tax policy to trade and agriculture. He also led the Congressman's efforts against the federal government's long-entrenched price support program for sugar.
Todd began his political career at the Republican National Committee where he served in the RNC's Opposition Research Department and later as Assistant for Policy Communications during the 1996 election cycle. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland.