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Blank Rome Communications Officer to Leave Next Year

By Brian Harris

By Gina Passarella
Of the Legal Staff

Topper Ray, Blank Rome?s chief communications officer and a principal in its government relations subsidiary, is leaving the firm by the end of the year for an outside agency.

Starting Jan. 3, 2011, Ray will serve as president of the communications arm of Bravo Group, a government relations and communications agency based out of Harrisburg.

Ray will serve the Philadelphia region and work to grow the communications component in Philadelphia and throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Though started in Harrisburg by CEO Chris Bravacos, Bravo Group now has about 30 staff members across offices in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Ray said he is looking forward to working with Bravo Group affiliate Omega Group, a brand research company, to offer clients ?a very distinct value proposition.?

His departure from Blank Rome isn?t a complete severing of ties. The law firm will continue on as a client of Bravo Group, Ray said, adding that his leaving is purely because of the good opportunity presented at his new company.

Ray joined Blank Rome in 2003 as a founding principal of Blank Rome Government Relations and director of communications and public relations for the law firm. Prior to that, he served as a senior vice president at Tierney Communications, where he concentrated on professional services marketing. Blank Rome had been one of his clients while at Tierney.

Before joining Tierney in 1993, Ray served as a press aide to then President George H.W. Bush in the Office of Presidential Advance, and as a presidential campaign lead press advance representative for the Republican National Committee.

Full post as published by The Legal Intelligencer Blog on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).