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David Fuscus is president CEO of Xenophon Strategies, a highly focused communications and sustainability firm that he founded in 2000. Xenophon has key practices in ESG & sustainability, crisis communications, public affairs and public relations. Xenophon works with clients from around the world such as Airbus, The Virgin Group, Williams-Sonoma, The Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Coast Guard, Williams-Sonoma and NEC Corporation.

In 2021, Xenophon and the German ESG consultancy Cometis AG created the world’s first sovereign ESG report for the government of Uzbekistan. Xenophon is also one of two founding partners of the Global ESG Monitor, the world’s leading gauge of corporate ESG transparency.

Fuscus is one of the nation’s leading crisis communications experts and has worked on major national and international crises for almost 30 years. In January 2021, an all-journalist jury for the Best in Biz Awards selected him as the 2020 Crisis Executive of the Year.