Specialization(s):
Brand Management, Crisis Management, Employee Communications/Internal Relations, Government Relations/Public Affairs, Integrated Marketing Communications, Issues Management, Media Relations, Reputation Management, Social Responsibility
Roger Bolton is the president of the Arthur W. Page Society, the premier professional association for senior corporate communications executives. Members include the chief communications officers of the world’s major corporations, the CEOs of the most influential public relations agencies and leading academics from select business and communications schools.
Bolton is also a trustee and a past chairman of the Page Society. He has co-chaired the Thought Leadership Committee, which is working to help global companies build trust in a rapidly changing global operating environment. He has been named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America, a program of Next Decade, Inc.
Previously, he served as senior vice president of communications at Aetna, a $35 billion provider of health care benefits, with responsibility for all internal and external communications, advertising, brand management and corporate public involvement. He also chaired Aetna’s Council for Organizational Effectiveness – a group of senior executives responsible for helping the company achieve high performance through culture change – and served on the board of the Aetna Foundation.
Before Aetna, Bolton was IBM’s director of corporate media relations and director of communications for the IBM server and software groups.
Prior to his business career, Bolton served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for public affairs under President George H.W. Bush, assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs in the Executive Office of the President under President Reagan, and special assistant to President Reagan in the White House, with responsibility for the president’s relations with business and labor. He is a recipient of the U.S. Treasury Distinguished Service Award.
Bolton is a member of the board of the Josephson Institute of Ethics and of advisory boards of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University, and the Baruch College MA in Corporate Communication Program. He is a deacon of the Congregational Church of New Canaan, Connecticut.
