Bryan Rich

Bryan Rich advises major corporate and government clients on strategic communications and global positioning strategies- he is a renowned expert in applying analytical models for competitive intelligence, market and reputation analysis and devising and implementing transformative multi-channel campaigns. His proprietary analytical models have been applied to support US national security issues including counter insurgency behavioral analysis and effects based COIN strategies. Rich was was a keynote speaker at the 2011 Human Socio-Cultural Behavior Conference by the US Department Of Defense. Rich was a teacher of digital journalism at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and went on to design strategies for Fortune 100 Corporations and has been an executive-advisor to major financial and aerospace companies on issues of global marketing and reputation analysis. Rich is a senior consultant for the Rendon Group in Washington DC and has been key player in Rendon’s real time influence and Strategy/PR practice. He is a a leading expert in data driven open source analysis and strategy development and was founder of Global News Intelligence (GNI) a highly unique open source analysis company that has provided services to Publicis and WPP and has been used by major defense contractors in support of effects based analysis in the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America. Rich has lived and traveled extensively in The Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.He is a former TV and Radio producer whose last work broadcast by Bill Moyers was an in depth interview with [...] bomb trainer Marwan Zaloum who was assassinated weeks after the interview: and Rich was awarded a Nieman Fellow of Journalism at Harvard University for creating and establishing Studio Ijambo in Burundi;he has been featured in The Washington Post for groundbreaking documentary work and was the first person on record to obtain with Alexis Sinduhije (Burundian Presidential candidate and acclaimed Burundian journalist) Chiara Zanni and Bill Gentile, voluntary confessions of [...] in which the perpetrators exhumed and named their victims on camera. Rich was a teacher of digital journalism at Harvard University's Neiman Foundation and went on to become a c-suite consultant to Fortune 100 executives to major financial and aerospace companies on issues of global influence and reputation analysis. Rich wrote a narrative about his experiences in Burundi entitled "One David and Two Goliaths" and has been featured in the Washington Post, National Public Radio among others. He was the creator of "Our Neighbors Ourselves" a major radio play that rose to international prominence for its popularity in central east africa, and was written with Maria Louise Sebazuri. Rich appeared on ABC Nightline in 1996 with Ted Koppel for his work supporting independent media following the Rwandan [...]. Rich is a songwriter and collaborated extensively with Will Oldham on a number of music projects writing some of Oldham's early songs Bryan Rich also worked in the independent movie industry in New York City on award winning independent movies like Poison (Todd Haynes) and Thousand Pieces of Gold (Nancy Savoka) and Life under Water with Keanu Reeves and Sarah Jessica Parker.