Stan Collender’s financial and public affairs communications experience is extensive. During his more than two decades in communications, he has designed and implemented award-winning communications efforts for financial companies, associations, federal agencies, and trade associations. Prior to joining Qorvis, Collender worked as a managing director and general manager of Financial Dynamics Business Communications, where he rapidly built their corporate and public affairs client base in DC, directed FD’s efforts to establish a public affairs practice in the United States and significantly enhanced the agency’s global public affairs offering.
Before joining Financial Dynamics, Collender was the national director of public affairs for Fleishman Hillard, and a senior vice president at Burson-Marsteller. He has also served as a director of federal budget policy for two major international accounting firms—Price Waterhouse and Touche Ross—and as president of the Budget Research Group, a private Washington-based consulting organization.
Collender holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from New York University.