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Steve Dishart is the President of Dishart Communication and Crisis Management Consultants in New York. He is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Baruch College, CUNY, School of Communication Studies and is a frequent speaker on communications issues.
Dishart CCMC directs and executes strategic reputation management, marketing, media and crisis communications consulting to its clients.
Before forming his own company and teaching at the City University of New York, Dishart served many years in leadership roles in the financial services business and recently in the not-for-profit sector.
He was Executive Director of Blue Ocean Institute, where he led efforts to reach new audiences, manage a profitable fundraiser, produce the annual report and bring in new funders to the organization. Blue Ocean is a affiliated with Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
From 2000-2010, Dishart was a managing director of Communications and Human Resources for Zurich-based Swiss Re, a leading and diversified reinsurer with offices in 25 countries. Based in New York City, Dishart headed Corporate Communications for Swiss Re Group in the Americas, Swiss Re's largest market, with offices in the United States, Canada and South America.
During 10 years in the insurance industry, Dishart held various leadership positions, including serving as Insurance Information Institute Communications Committee Chairman and on the board of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation. Dishart also managed Swiss Re's relationship with The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.
Before joining Swiss Re in 2000, Dishart was director of Corporate Communications for Pittsburgh-based Mellon Bank, now BNY Mellon. He led communications globally and was responsible for the firm's award-winning annual reports and all aspects of internal and external communications.
Dishart began his career as a broadcast journalist, serving as a news director, legislative reporter and public affairs program host for radio stations in Florida and West Virginia. He won a number of broadcast journalism awards for news reporting and was involved in network reporting of national news.
An accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America, Dishart is a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations and is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society.
Through community and philanthropic activities, Dishart is involved in several organizations in New York City, in his home region of Westchester County and in Nicaragua. He served as President of the Board of Trustees of ArtsWestchester, where he led a rebranding of the organization, and serves on the board of Green Chimneys Children's Services. He is also a board member of Bridges to Community, which builds homes in the poorest regions of Nicaragua.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dishart is a graduate of the International Executive Programme at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He holds a master's degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a bachelor's from West Virginia University. He also earned certificates through additional studies with Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Dishart resides in Somers, NY with his wife Susan, an executive with Guiding Eyes for the Blind. He is the father of three grown children: Stephanie, Justin and Melissa.

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