Peter M. Abel
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Suddenlink

Since 2003, Pete Abel has served as the top public affairs officer for the enterprise known today as Suddenlink Communications, a St. Louis-based cable TV and broadband services company serving approximately 1.3 million customers across the country.

At Suddenlink, Mr. Abel and his staff manage trade, national, and local media relations; community relations; employee communications; and certain aspects of the company’s government relations.

Prior to Suddenlink, Mr. Abel was a senior vice president and senior partner at Fleishman-Hillard, an Omnicom company and one of the world’s largest public affairs agencies.  There, Mr. Abel consulted with organizations as diverse as Procter & Gamble, Monsanto, Johnson & Johnson, Anheuser-Busch, Dell, SBC Communications (now AT&T), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  For those and other clients, Mr. Abel managed teams of up to 30 professionals, who contributed to projects that spanned a range of disciplines, from marketing to crisis management.

Mr. Abel started his career in 1985 as a freelance reporter, and later as a full-time staff writer, for the (St. Louis) County Star-Journal, covering municipal politics and local businesses.


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