Welcome
Braddock Cove Ventures is a strategic advisory & boutique investment firm.
What We Do
We advise leading corporations and executives on corporate affairs challenges and provide critical counsel on risk and reputation. We partner with entrepreneurs and sponsors to scale services and content companies with active support, aligned capital, and operational expertise.
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Strategy and Message Development
Crisis Communications
Reputation Management
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Strengthen Organizational Design
Improve Profitability.
Expand Service Lines
Develop Operations and Finance Functions
People and Performance
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Advise buyers and sellers on mergers, acquisitions, and other M&A related activity.
Counsel on equity and debt related financing including dividend recapitalization.
Plan and support potential exits.
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Highly targeted investments in growing content and professional services companies
Seed and Series A support for media, research, communications and contiguous markets
What We Believe
Success starts with a culture that values diverse perspectives and treats every team member with respect. Great ideas come from everywhere in the organization and work can and should be a source of purpose, inspiration, and joy.
Leadership
Chip Smith
Founder & Principal
Chip Smith is the founder and a principal with Braddock Cove Venture.
Chip has deep expertise in corporate communications, capital markets communications, public affairs, politics, public policy, and special situations communications, including crisis management, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy.
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Prior to BCV, Chip served as Executive Vice President and the Global Head of Public Affairs at 21st Century Fox. At 21CF, Chip oversaw non-market risk and reputation for the company and led the company’s public affairs, government relations, and advocacy functions worldwide.
Chip was a co-founder and the CEO of The Glover Park Group (now FGS) one of the nation’s most respected strategic communication companies. In addition, he oversaw GPG’s capital markets and corporate practices. As the CEO, Chip directed three liquidity events for the business, including a minority leveraged investment, a dividend recapitalization and a competitive process leading to the sale of the firm to global holding company WPP.
Before co-founding GPG, Chip was a deputy campaign manager and the chief operating officer for Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, where he designed, built, and directed the campaign’s day-to-day operations.
Chip began his career in government and politics as a legislative aide in the United States Senate, and ultimately as an EVP at Shrum, Devine & Donilon, a political media and public relations consulting firm. At SDD, he helped conceive, produce, and place media in nine winning US Senate campaigns and seven winning congressional campaigns.
Chip currently serves on the Board of Alethea, an early-stage technology company focused on disinformation and misinformation and as a Trustee for Colby College and the Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation. Chip has served as a director on the boards of The Motion Picture Association, as the Chair of the Governing Board for Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School, as a trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation and several other non-profits. Chip is an active member of the US Capital Chapter of the Young President’s Organization (YPO).
A native of Atlanta, Chip earned his B.A. in American Studies from Colby College and M.B.A. from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.