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Nick Ashooh draws upon his deep and varied experience to provide corporate communications counsel to C-suite clients. Nick has nearly 50 years of experience in corporate communications, serving as senior communications officer at five Fortune 500 companies across several sectors, including energy and utilities, financial services, insurance, metals and mining and entertainment. As Senior Director and a member of APCO’s International Advisory Council in APCO’s Washington office, Nick excels at helping large, complex organizations achieve business success through strategic communications.
The extraordinary challenges Nick has navigated in his career include leading communications for AIG during the global financial crisi,; successfully countering an existential threat to Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. from onerous, state-mandated power contracts and spearheading communications during the contentious licensing and construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant. He also led communications for Alcoa during the company’s joint venture to build Saudi Arabia’s first aluminum complex.
Nick is a past chairman of The Seminar and The Wise Ones, two of the oldest organizations for senior communications professionals. He is also a former trustee of the Arthur W. Page Society, and a past member of the Civilian Public Affairs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He received the Milestones in Mentoring Award from the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations in 2012 and was named Communicator of the Year by Marquette University in 2001. He was inducted into the Arthur W. Page Society Hall of Fame in 2013. Nick earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with honors from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.