Rick C. Wade Company Profile
Rick C. Wade is founder of The Wade Group, a global business development and strategic communications firm. A graduate of Harvard University, he is a former Senior Advisor to both Obama for America presidential campaigns and Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke (now Ambassador to China). While at Commerce, he was an advocate for small businesses and represented the department in many international forums such as the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation, African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum and the Conference on the Caribbean and Central America.