Matt Chandler
Managing Director
Matt Chandler is a Managing Director at Bully Pulpit International (BPI), where he utilizes his deep strategic and crisis communications experience to help clients solve challenges. Matt leads complex corporate and crisis communications engagements for brand names, start-ups, and non-profits in finance, healthcare, technology, education, and national security.
Prior to BPI, Matt was a Partner at Frontier Solutions and Frontier Public Affairs, integrated risk and crisis management firms where he oversaw the firms’ strategic communications and public affairs portfolios.
Previously, Matt served in a number of senior roles at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Deputy Chief of Staff and acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. As Deputy Chief of Staff, Matt managed issues and programs related to counter-terrorism, intelligence, law enforcement, and emergency management and response. In the DHS Office of Public Affairs, Matt was the Department’s chief spokesperson and communications strategist, and he oversaw the Department’s crisis communications efforts during major incidents and events such as the Boston Marathon bombing, several attempted terrorist attacks, dozens of aviation threats and accidents, and natural disasters including Hurricane Sandy.
Matt is a U.S. Navy veteran and served in Afghanistan.
In 2008, Matt was a spokesperson for Obama for America in Colorado, and other states in the West. He started his career working for a political consulting firm in Denver, Colorado, where he supported various international, federal, and state political and public policy campaigns.