Jake Ward oversees communications for the Application Developers Alliance, including media, marketing, member relations and corporate partnerships. He has more than 10 years of experience in public relations, media relations and public policy, working on issues such as net neutrality, spectrum allocation, special-access regulation and Internet commerce. He has led strategic communications and issue-advocacy campaigns on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, public-interest group and industry associations.

Ward joined The Alliance after serving as a vice president of public affairs at the Washington-based PR firm the David All Group, where he represented clients in the high-tech industry on global digital platforms. He also served as executive director of AMP Summit, an annual forum for influencers in the activist, media and policy spheres. Before that, Ward was a vice president at the PR firm Brodeur Partners and a director at Qorvis Communications, both in the D.C. area. Ward came to public relations after holding communications positions for two members of Congress. He served as press secretary to Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and as communications director to Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif.

Ward holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wheaton College and a master’s degree from Northeastern University.

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