LOS ANGELES, June 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Building upon the momentum and success achieved in its inaugural year, EKA campaigns, a wholly owned subsidiary of Englander, Knabe & Allen, has hired campaign and public affairs strategist Kian Kaeni as a Vice President and also Managing Director of its' growing campaign division. Kian joins EKA campaigns as a veteran of a variety of local and statewide political and public affairs campaigns throughout California.
While contemplating how his professional experience will be utilized at EKA, Kian noted, "I've been fortunate to be a part of many winning teams for issues campaigns, candidates, independent expenditures and labor. Working with leaders from those organizations has provided me with a better understanding of how all the parts of the machine work together, I think that will be critical to my success at EKA Campaigns."
After managing the winning campaign for Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz, Kian was chosen as his Senior Legislative Deputy where he was chiefly responsible for staffing the Councilmember on the city budget, transportation, public safety and film related issues. Prior to his experience in City Hall, Kian was a regional political operative for SEIU-UHW and was active in a number of state, local and national political and issues based campaigns including Obama for President (Milwaukee and Las Vegas), No on Propositions 75, 76 and 77, independent expenditures supporting current Assembly and Senate members, Paul Tanaka for Mayor of Gardena and a host of issues based campaigns supporting police and fire.
Reflecting on his past, Kian warmly noted that "as a young man, I spent a lot of time thinking about political campaigns and public service; it's part of my character now. I am thrilled to join EKA and look forward to winning for our clients and expanding our role in the political landscape."
Looking back on EKA campaign's inaugural year, Managing Partner Harvey Englander commented, "The first year of EKA Campaigns has been successful. We were able to clear the field in a few races, compete vigorously in a few races and push the needle over the top with IE's. We plan on bringing in a few more victories for candidates and independent expenditures in November. Almost every day we are talking to people who are interested in enlisting our strategy based programs."
There is a growing consensus that the framework used by some consultants has become stale. With so many new ways to contact voters, cookie cutter direct mail messaging is something EKA is already changing. Englander commented, "EKA is going to continue adopting innovative ways to reach target voters while giving clients full access to our decades of experience. We have state-of-the art direct voter contact tools that we will continue to use in the next election cycle."
About EKA Campaigns
EKA campaigns has decades of experience in campaign consulting, strategic communications and public policy advising. EKA campaigns runs independent expenditure campaigns, and advises candidates, elected officials and campaigns at the local and state level. Our political consultants have extensive professional expertise in working with organizations, companies, elected officials, candidates and political parties in the United States. For more information visit www.englanderpr.com