Keith Urbahn is president and founding partner of Javelin. In his 14 years leading the company, he has helped negotiate hundreds of book, film television deals totaling more than $110 million, overseen the publication more than 60 New York Times bestsellers, and assembled one of the most effective and results-driven public relations teams in America. For five years Keith worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, most recently serving as his chief of staff. He helped oversee the publication of Rumsfeld’s No. 1 New York Times-bestselling memoir. Previously he worked in the United States Senate and as a Pentagon speechwriter. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, he spent 10 years as a commissioned reserve intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. He is credited in many media outlets as the first person to break the news of the death of Osama bin Laden to the world over Twitter. Urbahn lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Kerri and two children, Benjamin and William.
keith@javelindc.com / twitter.com/keithurbahn
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