Steven Kostant is a senior vice president of creative strategy at Fleishman-Hillard Washington, D.C., where he specializes in integrating creative and brand strategiesto meetbusiness and organizational objectives. Selected clients include the AT&T, UAE/Abu Dhabi, Federal Trade Commission, ONDCP, Smithsonian Institution, Novartis, Department of Defense/TriCare, KAUST, Kennedy Center, KROLL, Marriott International, Merck, VISA, Vulcan Productions and USDA.

Before joining Fleishman-Hillard, Mr. Kostant was executive creative strategist for Planit Agency,

a national advertising and integrated marketing company. He has served as vice president of content

and programming for StarBand Communications, the world’s first satellite-delivered broadband company, and was vice president of creative strategy at iXL, an interactive advertising agency providing creative direction and online brand strategy to Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Client engagements include corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector brand and creative strategies for AOL, CitiGroup, DuPont, EPA, CDC, Comic Relief, Kennedy Center, GE, Lexus, Lincoln Center, National Science Foundation, NIH, Remedi Senior Care, Six Flags, USAID, Walters Museum, and World Bank.

For more than two decades, Mr. Kostant has developed integrated communications campaigns for nonprofit, public-sector, and international government entities. He has worked as an independent documentary filmmaker, commercial director, and television producer for broadcast, advertising,

and digital media; his programs have aired on NBC, PBS, WETA and The Learning Channel.

Mr. Kostant has received numerous industry awards and grants from the Academy of Television Arts

and Sciences, American Film Institute, American Advertising Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, New York Film Festival and the Small Business Innovation Research Program.

Mr. Kostant is on the faculty of Georgetown University Masters of Professional Studies in Public Relations and Communications and taught at UMBC Erickson School of Aging, Management and Policy and Clark University.He holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from New York University and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.