David Bayless brings a wealth of battle-tested media relations experience from the public and private sectors to Res Publica Group. Immediately prior to joining the firm in early 2006, David spent nearly seven years managing the message on behalf of various City of Chicago agencies. David also brings six years of previous agency experience to work for his clients.

From 2000 through 2005 David was in charge of media relations for the Chicago Police Department, the nation's second largest municipal law enforcement agency. During his tenure there, David garnered an unprecedented amount of positive news coverage in local, national and international media by highlighting Chicago's historic drops in violent crime, its technological advances and its community policing and crime-fighting strategies.

Often on the front lines of a crisis or major crime scene, David skillfully handled national and local media during major, high profile criminal investigations, disasters and large-scale public demonstrations. Additionally, he managed the police department's public response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

David teamed up with Mayor Richard M. Daley's press office as well as local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to develop communications strategies that built external support to help the police department forward its legislative goals, public policy initiatives and community outreach efforts. He also wrote major policy speeches for two police superintendents, Terry G. Hillard and Philip J. Cline.

David also served brief stints as spokesman for Barbara A. Lumpkin when she was City Treasurer in 1999-2000 and Chief Procurement Officer for the City of Chicago in 2005.

Before entering the public sector in 1999, David was a senior account executive at Jasculca/Terman and Associates, a Chicago public affairs firm. There he helped shape and implement grassroots outreach and media campaigns for government, higher education, transportation and non-profit clients. Additionally, David organized events and outreach efforts for several local, state and national elected officials.

David currently serves on the board of Project Exploration, a non-profit science education organization that makes science accessible to the public especially minority youth and girls through personalized experiences with scientists and science.

Bayless is a 1990 graduate of Saint Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota. He and his wife have a daughter and live on Chicago's Northwest Side.

db@respublicagroup.com
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