Robert Stewart Senior Vice President
202.776.5486 | robert.stewart@thewadegroupinc.com
Robert Stewart joins TheWadeGroup following a long career as a Washington-based communications professional specializing in public affairs and public policy issues involving the financial services, telecommunications and gaming industries.
Before joining TheWadeGroup, Stewart served as the first vice president of public affairs for the newly formed Private Equity Council (now the Private Equity Growth Capital Council), established in 2007 to represent some of the world's largest private equity firms, including The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG Capital.
At the Council, Stewart developed and executed a series of national public affairs, grassroots and media campaigns (traditional and online) intended to educate media and lawmakers about the economic contributions of the private equity industry and to combat efforts to raise taxes on investment partnerships.
Before joining the council in 2007, Stewart owned and managed Crossfire Communications, LLC, a public affairs consulting firm with offices in Nevada and Rhode Island.
From 2001 until 2005, Stewart served as senior vice president of corporate communications for Caesars Entertainment, Inc., then the world's largest casino resort company. Based in Las Vegas, Stewart was responsible for public affairs and media relations at the corporate level and for the company's 28 casino properties, located in five countries on four continents.
Before moving to Las Vegas, Stewart worked for 12 years in Washington, where he held a series of top communications positions at telecommunications and technology companies. From 1997 through 2000, Stewart was senior vice president of corporate communications at Teligent, a telecommunications start-up company based in Vienna, Virginia. Earlier, he served as director of public policy communications for MCI, and director of communications for the Washington office of Pacific Telesis, then one of the seven Baby Bells.
Previously, Stewart spent 18 years as a journalist. From 1982 until 1993 he worked as a reporter and later Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was a reporter for The Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Brown University and a Master of Arts degree in communications from Syracuse University.