Roger Fisk has had a key "behind the scenes role" in President
Obama's organisation, starting from the earliest stages of the
first Presidential campaign, then serving in the Administration,
and now working for both the White House and the President's 2012
re-election.
The first Obama election campaign is widely regarded as the best
run Presidential campaign ever and in the contest of 2012 Roger is
helping implement some dramatic improvements in cutting-edge
on-line technologies as well as organisational approaches to social
media. Roger started working for the campaign in 2007 and for the
next 22 months travelled through 32 states with Senator Obama. He
was hired by the Obama Team as the National Director of Special
Events in what would become a history making Finance Department.
Here he managed a nationwide grass-roots fundraising team that
revolutionized modern political fundraising, totaling US$100
million in 11 months while building the largest donor base in US
history.
Roger supervised teams with direct managerial responsibility for
event and advertising budgets, site selection, appropriation of
staff resources, cultivation of targeted free media, coordination
of web outreach, and collaboration with local, state and national
elected officials. He also served as principal liaison with US
Secret Service and local law enforcement, and was directly
responsible for co=coordinating and managing the media's coverage
of over 150 events across the country.
Following the successful campaign he served as the Cabinet
Liaison for the Presidential Inauguration and then became a
presidential appointee in the Obama Administration. His
Presidential appointment in the Commerce Department required him to
coordinate diplomatic and trade missions for the Cabinet and
President. He served as Lead USG Coordinator on trade missions
through India and 4 trips through China, and coordinated the
Cabinet's role in both the 2009 COP-15 Global Conference on Climate
Change in Copenhagen and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. He served
as President Obama's point person at the 2011 G8 Summit in
Deauville, France.
Prior to his work for President Obama, Roger worked for Deval
Patrick's successful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. All of
this experience rests on his work for US Senator John Kerry, where
he served as his Senior Aide in the US Senate for Communication and
Policy. He advised Senator Kerry on a wide-range of politically
sensitive issues, including Medicare, AIDS, community health, and
child nutrition, as well as working on the speech writing team. He
worked in more than 14 states in the Kerry Presidential campaign,
helping to build a billion dollar enterprise from its very first
days to its last.
Roger is an award-winning guitarist and singer, having recorded
classical records as a child, toured the US in pop bands, as well
as having the rare opportunity to perform the ANC anthem in Zulu
for Nelson Mandela! He participated in National Geographic's "Civil
Warriors," a documentary about the American Civil War, has
published articles on politics and travel, and has lectured on
political organizing and social media in Malaysia, Switzerland,
Indonesia, Qatar and Dubai.
These experiences provide Roger with a deep understanding of
21st century Presidential politics and the global landscape they
both impact and reflect.