Patrick Ruffini
| Patrick Ruffini | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Current CEO of Echelon Insights, a research, analytics, and digital intelligence firm |
| Known for | Political strategism and blogging |
Patrick Ruffini is a Republican Party political strategist and blogger in the United States. He is a founding partner and Chairman of Engage, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based political media firm, and now runs the political research and intelligence firm, Echelon Insights
Ruffini grew up in France, Italy, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated high school in 1996 from Greenwich High School. He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
Ruffini began blogging in 2001 when the medium was still in its infancy, and has been a front-page contributor for RedState and Townhall.com.
In the 2004 election, Ruffini served as webmaster for the Bush-Cheney campaign, managing day-to-day operations on the campaign’s Web site and helping oversee development of the grassroots tools that mobilized 1.4 million campaign volunteers. Having come to the campaign with experience as an early political blogger, Ruffini launched and ran the campaign’s blog the first ever affiliated with an incumbent President and led rapid response outreach to the then-burgeoning political blogosphere.
Immediately following the 2008 election, Ruffini co-authored the Rebuild the Party platform for Republican renewal that has attracted the support of over 10,000 online activists and five of the six candidates in the 2009 election for RNC Chairman.
From 2005 to 2007, Ruffini served as eCampaign Director at the Republican National Committee (RNC). As part of the RNC Chairman’s leadership team, Ruffini worked to maximize adoption of new media throughout the Republican Party, producing record online fundraising, designing online organizing tools, and spearheading the party’s blog and social media strategy. Under Ruffini’s leadership, the RNC’s Web traffic led that of the Democratic National Committee for 11 out of 12 months in an otherwise challenging 2006 election year according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
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