Kasey S. Pipes has served as the President and CEO of The Pipes Company since he founded it in 2004. He specializes in public relations, crisis communication, media training, executive communications, content strategy, digital marketing, issue advocacy, reputation management, and policy development and analysis.
Before becoming a public affairs consultant, Kasey spent ten years in politics as a communications and policy adviser. In 2006, he served as chief campaign speechwriter and senior communications adviser to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to that, he served President George W. Bush for five years.
From 1999-2000, he wrote speeches and provided policy analysis for the Bush for President Campaign. From 2001-03, he wrote speeches and provided policy research and analysis in the Bush White House. In 2004, he was chief author of the National Republican Party Platform. In 1996, he served as deputy campaign manager and campaign spokesman on the Granger for Congress Campaign that culminated in the first Republican victory ever in Texas Congressional District 12.
From 1997-99, he served as communications director and senior legislative assistant to Congresswoman Kay Granger (now the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee) where he advised her on foreign policy, national security, transportation, health care, education, and tax policy. Later in his career, he returned to the Granger team and served as a campaign political and communications consultant from 2005-2013.
He began his career as a research intern in the California office of former President Ronald Reagan in 1995.
Since starting The Pipes Company in 2004, Kasey has served as national media spokesman for several coalitions and as statewide media spokesman for multiple Texas political campaigns. He also has provided crisis communication services to Fortune 500 companies and high-profile executives.
Kasey is also a recognized historian whose 2007 biography of Dwight Eisenhower, “Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality,” was released by World Ahead Publishing and became an Amazon.com New Arrival Bestseller. It was praised by The Wall Street Journal as a “highly readable and credible account Eisenhower’s struggle with race and civil rights” and by George F. Will as “mind-opening.” In July 2019, his second book, “After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon,” was released by Regnery Publishing and Simon & Schuster Digital and quickly reached the Amazon.com New Arrival Bestseller List for Presidential Biography. The book was another critical success with the Chicago Tribune calling Kasey “the lotto winner” for gaining access to Nixon materials that no historian had researched before.
He also served as the Norris Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College from 2009 until 2019. His political writings have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, Politico, The San Francisco Chronicle and realclearpolitics.com. He has also appeared as a political commentator numerous times on the Fox News Channel, Bloomberg and C-SPAN. And from 2007-2017, he regularly wrote reviews of new biographies and interviewed authors about their work for The Dallas Morning News.
A native of Fort Worth, Kasey holds a bachelor’s degree from Abilene Christian University, as well as a graduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and another graduate degree from Harvard University where he was named a winner of the Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Thesis. And he is credentialed by the American Marketing Association as a Professional Certified Marketer®
He is also involved in several civic and charity leadership roles, including: as a Member of the Board of Regents at Pepperdine University; as a Council on Foreign Relations Life Member; as a Member of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association Board of Directors; as a Member of the Charles Schwab Challenge PGA Tournament Committee at Colonial Country Club; as a Member of the Davey O’Brien Foundation Board of Trustees; as a Member of the Board of Advisors at the Journal of Law & Civil Governance at Texas A&M University School of Law; and as a Member of the Board of Directors at Colonial Country Club.
Previously, Kasey served as the Norris Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute from 2009-19. And from 2002-2010 he also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy Reserve.
Kasey lives in Fort Worth with his wife, Lacie, and their three children, Lincoln, Crosby and Betsy.
In addition to communication consulting, Kasey is also an author and historian. His first book, "Ike's Final Battle: The Challenge of Equality and the Road to Little Rock", was released by World Ahead and became an Amazon.com National Bestseller. His second book, "After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon," was released by Regnery and distributed by Simon & Schuster and also became an Amazon.com National Bestseller.
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