Erick Mullen

With thirty years of government service, political consulting and strategic public affairs work in Washington, DC, Erick Mullen is an experienced 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. There he won the U.S. Capitol Police Service Award for meritorious acts in 1994. In 2002, he was selected by a bipartisan committee of the House and Senate to produce the historic Joint Session of Congress at Ground Zero in New York City to commemorate the first anniversary of the attacks on 9-11.

Launching Mullen & Company in 2003, Erick used quantitative analysis to rethink political campaign strategy away from the cultural trends ('that's how it's been done') to rational approaches ("how do we use what we have to build what we need to get what we want?"). Mullen & Co. delivered winning political strategies and pioneered narrowcasting and was an early adopter of digital advertising on Google and Pandora. Mullen & Co. expanded into corporate public affairs and litigation communications as the world came to grips with the speed and permanence of internet search tools and their impact on reputation management.

In 2013, Erick joined the world-class team at Mercury Public Affairs as a Managing Director where he developed and honed his one-of-a-kind value proposition by providing clients with a tactically agnostic, 360-degree perspective. 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.