Joe Richards

Principal

720 Strategies

With over a decade of experience crafting marketing, communications, and public relations solutions, Joe Richards provides strategic expertise and delivers measurable results for clients. Joe has demonstrated success leveraging his technical proficiency and developing targeted collateral for clients ranging from pharmaceutical companies to national trade associations to Fortune 500 companies. 

With 720 Strategies, an HMA Company, Joe supports a number of clients, including the firm’s highest profile and highest revenue client. He coordinates cross-collaborative services, working with the firm’s media, operations, IT, and web development teams to deliver cohesive strategies tailored to clients’ needs and audiences. He has also designed, developed and delivered nation- and international-scale public affairs campaigns, education initiatives and events.  

Joe has extensive experience working in the public affairs, public policy and advocacy space. In addition to his experience with 720 Strategies, he was a senior account manager with a corporate branding, public relations and public affairs agency in Washington D.C. and an integrated marketing executive with a direct response communications firm working in the political and nonprofit sectors. In these roles, he led clients’ communications strategies, branding efforts and public affairs campaigns, including governmental website redesigns, six-figure digital marketing campaigns and video productions for national coalitions. 

Joe earned his bachelor’s degree in management from Providence College.