Specialty: Writing on a wide variety of critical business issues for speeches, op-eds, white papers, and books; helping clients to develop their strategic plans.

Fields most served: Energy, technology, national defense, health care, liability reform, corporate social responsibility.

Interview:

Q: How do you describe what you do at WHWG?
Davis: We help companies and associations with strategy, communications and message campaigns.

Q: What is most satisfying about your work for your clients?
Davis: What jazzes me? When you hit it spot on. You don’t create a message. You find it. You show the client something about himself he didn’t realize.

Q: What kinds of clients do you have and what are they looking for from you?
Davis: At the high end of strategy, for example, we are involved with helping one national security client in the global integration of systems, geopolitics and the domestic debate. With others we are writing speeches, writing and placing op-eds, and providing other communications and executive communications support.

Q: What skill or knowledge or experience has helped you most in your work at WHWG?
Davis: I enjoy bringing research to bear, to amaze a client by digging out some obscure fact that works to pull the whole message or event together. We are all skilled generalists. Our knowledge of history, economics, politics, cultures, allows us to do things that no mere wordsmiths could deliver.

Bio:   Mark Davis has years of experience writing for leaders at the highest levels of government, politics, business and finance.

As a White House speechwriter, he worked for President George H.W. Bush in drafting a prime-time Joint Session of Congress address declaring America's determination to lead a world coalition against Saddam Hussein. He also worked for President Bush on the "Europe Whole and Free" address at Mainz, then-West Germany, on liberating Eastern Europe from communism.

At the Republican National Committee, Mr. Davis prepared speeches for the RNC Chairman and Cabinet members. In that capacity, he wrote several political speeches for President Reagan.

Mark Davis served as a member of the senior staff of California Governor Pete Wilson, where he oversaw the Office of Public Affairs and managed the governor's speechwriting staff. He taught business communication courses to MBA candidates at the Haas Graduate School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served as Vice President of the Pacific Research Institute of San Francisco, a think tank. He holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.A. in history from Stanford University.

His writings have appeared in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Wilson Quarterly, The American Spectator, The International Herald Tribune and The Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Davis and his wife Rebecca live in Washington, D.C., and have one son and one daughter.