When the stakes are high, the right counsel makes all the difference.

Mark Botnick has spent the better part of two decades at the intersection of communications, politics, and high-stakes decision-making. He built his career inside New York City Hall, spending years as a senior aide to Mayor Mike Bloomberg through two mayoral campaigns and deep into the administration itself — tracking the administration’s commitments, working on major policy fights including pension reform and marriage equality in New York, and running Ed Koch’s final political campaign, New York Uprising, a statewide effort to reform a corruption-riddled Albany, work that earned him a 40 Under 40 honor from City & State New York. From there, he moved into the corporate world as Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at First Data Corporation, helping lead the company through its 2015 IPO, and later joined Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign before launching his own practice — advising business and philanthropic leaders across multiple countries and continents.

More recently, Mark served as spokesperson for the defense in one of the most closely watched legal proceedings in recent memory, and has since lectured on litigation communications at universities in the U.S. and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Today, he works with C-suite executives, public officials, and organizations that need clear thinking and sound counsel when the stakes are high.