Previously, Mr. Kurth served as a top policy advisor to the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL). His portfolio included issues on telecommunications, intellectual property, technology, financial services, taxation and government reform. Mr. Kurth was with Hastert for nine years, first staffing him during Hastert’s tenure on the House Commerce Committee, specifically its jurisdictional interests in telecommunications and financial services issues. Once Hastert became Speaker, Kurth moved to the leadership office at the Capitol and managed such high-profile legislation as broadband deployment, spectrum relocation, media ownership reform, electronic signatures authorization, and modernization of financial services and commodity futures trading. Mr. Kurth started his Capitol Hill career in 1993 with the then-House Republican Leader, former-Congressman Robert Michel (R-IL). Prior to that, he worked at the U.S. State Department, under Republican and Democratic administrations, where he assisted on programs for international visitors and worked with desk officers on writing press guidance for the State Department spokesman on breaking news. He also worked for The Kamber Group, a Washington, DC-based public relations firm, on crisis communications, cause-related marketing and non-profit foundation management. Mr. Kurth is from Mendota, Illinois, and graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor's degree in business administration-economics and a second major in broadcast communications.
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