Pete Seat is more than a guy with a rhyming name. The only child of immigrant parents, he is a former White House spokesman, nationally-recognized political commentator, Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, columnist, author and adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona.

Currently a vice president at Bose Public Affairs Group in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he specializes in crisis communications, brand management and executive media coaching, Pete was previously the executive director of strategic communications and talent development at the Indiana Republican Party; communications director on the historic 106-day gubernatorial campaign of Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb; senior project manager at Hathaway Strategies, where he provided messaging development and management strategies to corporate and political clients; communications director for the Indiana Republican Party, where his messaging strategy resulted in over $2.5 million in earned media coverage for campaigns and candidates; communications director for former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’ victorious 2010 U.S. Senate campaign; and deputy assistant press secretary to President George W. Bush, where Pete worked alongside press secretaries Tony Snow and Dana Perino and logged thousands of miles aboard Air Force One.