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kellyPeter Kelly

Peter G. Kelly is a founder and senior principal of the Firm. Mr. Kelly also serves as a Director (and former Chairman) of The PBN Company, a communications and strategic planning firm with offices in Moscow, Kiev, Riga, Almaty, London and Washington, D.C.

Since 1978, Mr. Kelly has served in over a dozen National Democratic Party leadership posts, ranging from National Treasurer (1979 - 1981) and National Finance Chairman (1981 - 1985) to senior advisory positions (1988 Gore Presidential campaign, 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign and Gore 2000 campaign) and Co-Chairman of Clinton-Gore '96 (Connecticut). Mr. Kelly served on the Democratic National Committee from 1976-1992.

Mr. Kelly is one of the original architects of the U.S. private sector initiative on democratization efforts abroad. He was a founder and Treasurer of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He was a founder, Chairman and Director of the Center for Democracy, a bipartisan foundation, from 1984 to 1997. He serves currently as a director and Vice Chairman of the International Foundation for Election Systems based in Washington, D.C. and as a director and Chairman of IFES, Ltd. based in London, UK.

Over the years, Mr. Kelly has served on over two dozen civic boards. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and St. Francis Care, Inc. He is Director and Immediate Past Chairman of MetroHartford Chamber of Commerce, President of St. Francis Hospital Foundation, a Regent of the University of Hartford, Trustee of The CNA Corporation (formerly known as The Center for Naval Analyses) and Director of the Phillips Screw Company.

Mr. Kelly received his J.D. from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and his B.S., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2003, Mr. Kelly received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Central Connecticut State University.


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