William Floyd
Senior Government Relations Advisor, Law Offices of Claudia Wagner
William Floyd is a public affairs strategist and lobbyist with nearly 20 years experience working in the public and private sectors.
He served as the Executive Director of the 2003 New York City Districting Commission, a multi-partisan government agency charged with redrawing the City's fifty-one council district lines. William, along with the fifteen member Commission, crafted a final reapportionment plan that was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice without comment or change ?quot; an unprecedented legal event in New York City's political history.
Prior to the Districting Commission, he was the Director of Community Affairs for New York and Connecticut for Verizon Communications Inc., the largest telecommunications company in the country, with primary responsibility over each state's philanthropic, economic development and community outreach efforts. Most notably, Mr. Floyd organized Verizon's grassroots consumer emergency response immediately following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, which destroyed Verizon's major wire center in Lower Manhattan, serving over 300,000 customers. In addition, he served as Verizon's lobbyist, representing the company before local government on regulatory and legislative matters.
William was the Vice President for Public Affairs at the New York Building Congress where he spearheaded the newly created industry advancement program, a special fund created exclusively to promote and lobby for the construction community's interests. He also was an associate at Winner/Wagner and Associates, a national public affairs firm that has represented many FORTUNE 500 companies and specialized in corporate communications, government affairs and issues management. While at Winner/Wagner, he developed and implemented public affairs campaigns for an array of clients including a national sports association, a national auto emissions testing company and an international mining concern.
During his nine years in New York City government, he worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the city's lead agent for economic development, as Assistant Vice President for Intergovernmental Relations and Community Affairs from 1990 to 1994, as well as in other city agencies, including the 1989 New York City Charter Revision Commission, the organization that dismantled the Board of Estimate and expanded the New York City Council.
A graduate of Columbia College, where he earned a B.A. in Urban Affairs, Economics and Education, he is active on several nonprofit boards, including the Center for Employment Opportunities and the Gay Men's Health Crisis, where he serves as co-chair.
