Carl Wagner, Co-Founder
Carl Wagner’s experience includes a unique blend of business, technology and advocacy.
He is a highly regarded political and policy strategist. He has advised Congressional leaders, Presidential campaigns, and Democratic Party officials. He served as the national political director for Senator Edward Kennedy’s presidential campaign, as Director of Strategic planning for the Democratic Party, Co-Chair of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, and as advisor to Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Carl founded and served as President and CEO of Entertainment Express Corporation, a California cable television company serving new developments with Satellite Master Antenna Technology, which was acquired by Comcast. As a consultant, Carl provided strategic planning and business development and marketing services to multiple cable system operations and programmers, including Westinghouse Broadcasting, Comcast, Media General, MACOM, General Instruments, and Continental Cable.
For the past 20 years, Carl has also provided strategic planning and membership development services to several public interest organizations, including Hands Across America, the League of Conservation Voters, the Commission on Presidential Debates, and NBC and CBS News.
Carl serves as director of the Committee for the Study of American Electorate, Horton’s Kids (a non-profit devoted to tutoring poor children), and the Ronald H. Brown Foundation. He founded and manages the Trust for the Daughters of Paul Tully.
Carl holds an MA from Iowa State University, has lectured at Harvard University’s JFK Institute of Public Policy, and has published various opinion editorials.
