Richard A. Segal Jr.
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Richard Arthur Segal Jr., born March 16, 1957, in Hamilton, Ohio USA. American advertising executive and conservative political activist. Co-founder and chief executive of HSR Business to Business Inc. [1], the largest independently owned B-to-B agency in the United States. HSR has been named the best business to business advertising agency in the United States four times since 1995. Segal was featured as one of the "Seers and Sages of the Techno-Future" by Forbes [2] magazine in December 1996. He has regularly been listed among the "Who's Who of B-to-B" by Crain's B-to-B magazine [3] since 1999. Segal began his career in public affairs, having previously served on the staffs of former Cleveland, Ohio Mayor Ralph J. Perk, United States Senator Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio and as Executive Assistant to former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Earl T. Barnes. From 1982-1984, he served as a Member of the City Council of in Hamilton, Ohio. From 1997-2000 he was a Senior Advisor to Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, and was responsible for that campaign's groundbreaking Internet effort. From 2003-2006, Segal served as a Senior Advisor to the gubernatorial campaign of J. Kenneth Blackwell. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a non-partisan think tank focused on market-oriented solutions to public concerns. He is an elder of the Grace Evangelical Free Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2002, he was director of communications for the Billy Graham mission to Cincinnnati/Northern Kentucky, and credited by Graham as having been "the best public relations chair we ever had." He is married with three sons.
