User:5103WFO/Andrew Rice (strategic communications and public affairs)

Andrew Rice is the owner, founder and president of Andrew Rice & Associates, a Los Angeles-based strategic communications firm specializing high-stakes international crisis management, public affairs and media advising. The firm works both as a prime and as a sub-contractor to provide specialized skills and services to clients. Rice’s publicly known clients include DP World, the Executive Office of Dubai, and other foreign clients.

After a decade-long career writing for magazines like the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Wired, Outside, and the Industry Standard. Rice got his start in high-stakes communications during the dot-com boom when he left journalism to become the Director of Communications for X-drive Technologies, a pioneer of personal online storage that was eventually sold to AOL, which later shut the service down.

In 2004 and 2005 Rice spent two years working for the Rendon Group as a Bogotá-based advisor to the government of Colombia.

Upon returning to the United States, Rice was hired by Dubai as a spokesman, lobbyist, and key communications advisor during the political and media furor sparked by that country’s purchase of several key United States container ports. Later, he advised the Executive Office of Dubai on other public relations and diplomatic concerns.

Currently, Andrew Rice & Associates advises top executives of public and privately held companies, legal counsel at top-tier law firms, and high profile individuals.