VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, CHARLOTTE PIPE AND FOUNDRY COMPANY
Brad is a marketing and communications strategist with more than thirty-five years of experience in public and corporate affairs, international and government relations, manufacturing and business marketing, crisis management and media training.
Brad spent nearly a decade in Washington, DC, including stints with the U.S. State Department and Edelman Worldwide, the largest public relations and public affairs agency in the world.
Currently, Brad leads corporate communications and government affairs for Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company, a fifth-generation, family-owned manufacturer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1901, Charlotte Pipe and Foundry is the leading U.S. producer of cast iron and plastic pipe and fittings for plumbing systems.
Brad began his career working for the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development (USAID) in the George H.W. Bush Administration as a desk officer, managing foreign aid programs for Afghanistan and later for Central and Eastern Europe after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
At Edelman, Brad put his foreign policy experience to work for the late Michael Deaver, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan, on a variety of public affairs, international relations, and trade issues.
Brad has been active within his industry and community, including:
▪ Leadership roles with the American Foundry Society, the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute, the Municipal Casting Association, and the U.S. Trade Advisory Committee for Steel and Iron.
▪ Appearing as a manufacturing subject matter expert before U.S. House of Representatives committees and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
▪ Service on boards of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Foundation, among others.
Brad earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1988. Brad and his wife Charla, an experienced senior marketing executive and published author, have two grown children.
Either we have a fashion industry or we have de minimis, but we cannot have both, warned Jacob Helberg, one of the 10 commissioners for the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission.
CPA looks forward to working with Senator Thune and lawmakers in Congress to advance policies that deliver on the Trump agenda to prioritize American workers, domestic manufacturing, and our nation’s economic security.
The next GOP leader must be 100% pro-tariff and aligned with the Trump administration’s agenda to use tariffs and industrial policy to create jobs, increase domestic production, and build broadly-shared economic growth that fuels America’s Golden Age.
U.S. manufacturing has fallen from 21-25% of GDP in 1950s to about 10% today. The decline is worse than the average of first world developed countries. The result is an unbalanced economy excessively dominated by services and imports.
