Erick Mullen (He/Him)

With thirty years of government service, political and strategic public affairs experience in Washington, DC, Erick Mullen is a veteran insider who doesn’t waste time guessing. Erick spent the ‘90s on Capitol Hill learning how to succeed inside the Beltway from legendary members of the House and Senate. He won the U.S. Capitol Police Service Award for meritorious acts in 1994. In 2002, he was selected to produce the historic Joint Session of Congress at Ground Zero in to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11.

Launching Mullen & Company in 2003, Erick used quantitative analysis to rethink political campaign strategy away from static cultural norms to a dynamic rational approach to deliver winning strategies and pioneering narrowcasting digital advertising for corporate public affairs. In 2013, Erick joined the world-class team at Mercury Public Affairs as a Managing Director where he honed his one-of-a-kind value proposition. Today, his practice area at Class Five Strategies is the crosscurrents litigation, publicity, and political risk. Erick is hired to manage urgent situations that have implications on the reputations of top brands, luminaries, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices.

Erick served seven years on the Board of Trustees of the Lowell School, he sits on the Board of Directors of Plastics Free America. He is a member of several service organizations including the John Carroll Society, the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, the Society of Sons of the American Revolution.