Alan Fleischmann

Alan H. Fleischmann is the Founder, President & CEO of Laurel Strategies, Inc., the global business advisory and strategic communications firm for CEOs and their C-suite. Fleischmann is a professional with international and domestic experience in the public, private, and civil society sectors, and an expert in strategy, communications, negotiation, crisis & reputation management, finance, public policy, and trade investment. He has been a confidential advisor to Fortune 100 CEOs, top investors, and leaders. He is also the co-founder and board member of ImagineNations Group, a global network that promotes youth investment, youth-led enterprise, and entrepreneurship. ImagineNations and its partners support initiatives that create access to capital, business/leadership coaching and an on-line portal, www.imagine-network.org, that connects mentors to entrepreneurs.

In September 2010, Fleischmann announced at the Clinton Global Initiative with Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang a commitment to expand the ImagineNations Network worldwide. ImagineNations is a founding member of Partners for a New Beginning.

Fleischmann was a principal, partner, and board member of Albright Stonebridge Group, the global business strategy firm composed of leaders and executives from across the private, public, and civil society sectors. For several years, Fleischmann has been senior counselor of Penn Schoen Berland (PSB) Associates, the global polling and research firm.

Fleischmann was Maryland State chief of staff to the Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a staff director of the U.S. Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs, and served as a senior associate of JP Morgan Chase Bank (formerly Chase Manhattan Bank).

During the period of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fleischmann served as a policy aide in the German parliament, working for former German Chancellor Willy Brandt and his foundation for development and peace, while receiving a Bundestag Fellowship at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität.

Fleischmann was a lead member of the Obama Presidential Transition from 2008 to 2009, and in 2010, Fleischmann was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as a delegate to the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. In March 2011, President Obama announced that he was appointing Fleischmann to serve as a member of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.

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