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Rob Karwath is an American journalist, business executive and educator. Currently, he is President and CEO of North Coast Communications, a strategic communications firm he founded in the Kansas City area and Minnesota after working as an executive, top editor and award-winning reporter at some of the nation’s largest and most innovative media companies.

North Coast Communications helps clients nationwide ranging from a world-class medical center to start-up businesses navigate the complex world of communications and messaging. The firm specializes in media relations, public relations, strategic planning, content development and crisis communications.

The firm’s clients have included: University of Chicago Medicine, the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Scholastica, the College of William & Mary, the University of Kansas, BioIQ, Caregility, Lake Superior Zoo, ZMC Hotels Inc., Capstan Corp., Lake Assault Boats, Fraser Shipyards, the Great Lakes Fleet, Beacon Bank, Park State Bank, Alerus Financial and the Johnson, Killen & Seiler law firm. Karwath also founded and served as Managing Director of TwinPortsConnex, later renamed NORTHFORCE, an initiative to retain talented young professionals in northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin by helping them find jobs.

In 2018, Karwath took on additional roles as general manager of the University Daily Kansan and other units of campus media at the University of Kansas and a journalism faculty member in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Karwath began his career as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, rising through the ranks to become Business Editor, General Manager, Product Development Director and Innovation Editor. As Tribune Business Editor, he led a team of reporters whose series on the downfall of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with honors in journalism from the University of Kansas and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.