Ed Bergstraesser, a senior consultant to VOX Global, is a corporate communications and public affairs strategist and writer with more than 20 years of experience in issues management, creative program development, and editing/writing.
Prior to his VOX Global role, Bergstraesser worked with public relations agencies, not-for-profit organizations and Fortune 500 companies, including United Airlines, MCI, and AT&T. In addition, he’s directed national and grass roots public awareness programs, most notably an award-winning on-line voter registration drive, bringing together public and private entities to register 75,000 citizens in the nascent stages of Internet commerce and advocacy - and garnering 300 million impressions along the way, as well as a Smithsonian Award.
Bergstraesser has also managed comprehensive advertising and public awareness campaigns, including a statewide smog emissions control campaign for the State of Georgia. With Illinois’ Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, he spearheaded a broad-based public relations initiative to attract Boeing from Seattle to Chicago.
Bergstraesser maintains membership in the influential New York-based Creative Coalition and the Chicago-based Cliff Dwellers Arts Club. A winner of seven industry awards, he’s also actively involved in a host of other corporate communications and public affairs associations.
His first job out of school was with The Chicago Reporter, an award-winning, investigative monthly on urban affairs and race relations. He has a political science degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Bergstraesser lives in New York and is father of two daughters, Amy and Jenna.