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Ken has more than 25 years experience as a broadcast journalist and a senior public relations counselor. Prior to launching Vest Communications he was a Vice President at Powell Tate where he served a number of individual, corporate and government clients. He specialized in crisis and litigation communications, communications training and message development. He also provided strategic counsel and managed publicity and promotion campaigns. Before joining Powell Tate, Ken was a senior counselor for three of Washington's leading associations. He worked for AARP, the American Council of Life Insurers and the American Highway Users Alliance. In each of those positions he worked on a daily basis with network and local broadcast and print news organizations. He managed crisis communications on a number of sensitive issues, appearing on network news programs such as Nightline, CBS Morning News, CNN and Primetime Live. While at AARP, Vest wrote and produced video news releases for local television newscasts. He also was the executive producer for a number of live and taped television programs for older Americans targeting local cable outlets. In 1984 he served as press secretary and spokesman for the Kent Hance U. S. Senate campaign in Texas. After working in the public affairs office of the U. S. Department of Transportation in the early 1970s, Ken began a career in broadcast journalism spanning nearly 15 years. He worked in local television news in Casper, Wyoming; Austin, Texas; and Omaha, Nebraska. He was a Washington correspondent for KRON-TV in San Francisco and INN. He was a bureau chief and correspondent for American Broadcast News and Outlet Communications, and he also reported for CNN. A graduate of Southwest Texas State University, Ken served in the U. S. Army from 1969 to 1971. 
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