BIOGRAPHY

Tom Shanahan, President of The Shanahan Group, has extensive experience in government relations ranging from the local to the national level. With special expertise in environmental issues, particularly air and water quality, Mr. Shanahan is Albany-based, and represents such clients as the Suffolk County Water Authority, the country's largest supplier of groundwater, the Long Island Water Conference, New York Rural Water Association, Irrigation Association of New York and, on a pro-bono basis, the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind. He has also represented such clients as the Erie County Water Authority, Associated Universities, Inc., the Town of Huntington, Water Authority of Great Neck North, and the County of Suffolk. On a voluntary basis, he serves as Chairman of the state Water Utility Council's Legislative Review Committee.

He is the author of a number of articles on issues confronting the practice of governmental relations. These articles have appeared in publications spanning New York state, including Empire State Report, Albany Times Union, and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. His other writings have been published in such venues as the New York Times, Newsday, Troy Record, Hudson Register-Star, the Empire Page website, and commentary broadcast on Northeast Public Radio. In addition to many years of experience in the fields of government relations and media communications, he is an accomplished speechwriter, and is well-versed in television production, having served

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as the producer and co–host of a weekly half–hour television show which appeared for two and a half years on a Long Island cable television system.

Prior to forming The Shanahan Group in 1990, Mr. Shanahan was an account executive at Howard J. Rubenstein Associates, Inc., one of New York City's leading public relations agencies. With more than a decade of government service at various levels, he has served as press secretary to a member of the United States Congress, as a legislative aide to several members of the Suffolk County Legislature, and as public relations consultant to the Town of Babylon. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the SUNY College at Geneseo, has studied speech writing at New York University, and taken courses in advanced desktop publishing programs such as PageMaker and Photoshop.