Tom Basile

In October, 2009 he was named Executive Director of the Republican Party of New York State by Chairman Edward F. Cox. Basile is founder and Principal of Empire Solutions Consulting, a strategic communications and public relations firm and is also a Managing Director of Middleberg Communications in New York. He is an adjunct professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where he teaches earned media strategy. In 2008 he represented the office of the US Chief of Protocol to the Vatican Delegation during the visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to New York. In 2005, Basile served as a lead planner for the Department of State of the historic visit by former Presidents Bush and Clinton to the tsunami ravaged areas of South Asia. From 2004 to 2005, Basile was Press Secretary to Senator Trent Lott and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies in Washington. In March, 2004 Basile returned from seven months in Baghdad, Iraq where he served at the request of the White House, as a Senior Press Advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority. While in Iraq, he was a spokesperson and strategist for the Coalition’s press operations. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Hofstra University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Opera. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Sigma Phi Epsilon National Education Foundation. Basile is also a proud member of Lodge 54 of the District of Columbia Freemasons. A native of Rockland County, New York, Basile earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Hofstra University which named him its 2007 Young Alumnus of the Year. He received his Juris Doctor attending Fordham and Georgetown University Law Schools. Basile is a member of the New York Bar and resides in New York’s historic Hudson Valley.