David Smith

David Smith, a partner at GMMB, brings to the firm extensive experience in communications, public opinion research, policy analysis and campaign management to craft winning strategies for political candidates and some of the nation’s leading foundations, corporations and advocacy organizations.

A veteran of presidential and statewide political campaigns, David has provided strategic counsel and communications guidance to U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In two of the biggest upset victories of 2006, he helped engineer Jim Webb’s stunning win over George Allen, while his ads on behalf of the Defenders of Wildlife were widely credited with helping to defeat Congressman Richard Pombo.

In the field of social marketing, David has created award-winning campaigns on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and has provided strategic counsel, public affairs advice and advertising services to the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care, Heinz Center, Kaiser Family Foundation, Cisco Systems, Americans United, Alliance for Justice, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Ross Products, Johnson and Johnson, Federation of American Hospitals, Catholic Health Association, and many others.