Overview

• Pfeiffer left his role as principal deputy communications director in early September after roughly nine months in the West Wing.
• He is joining Watchtower Strategy as a managing director focused on strategy and crisis communications.
• Watchtower launched in January and lists Kevin McCarthy as chairman, Dan Conston as CEO, and partners Arthur Schwartz, Jeff Miller, Cliff Sims, and Brian O. Walsh.
• Schwartz praised Pfeiffer as one of the GOP’s most effective communicators and said the firm’s clients would benefit from his talents.
• The departure ranks among the administration’s more senior Year 1 exits, following principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields’ move to CGCN.