Experience

Velocity Public Affairs

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Velocity Public Affairs brings together a strong core team of experts with extensive backgrounds and experiences to help clients deal with challenges and capitalize upon opportunities. Velocity Public Affairs is supported by a strong team of outside experts that allow the core team to meet the scale, scope, and intensity of any project. Velocity Public Affairs has relationships with people from media outlets, stakeholder groups, and elected officials across the ideological spectrum at all levels of government, private industry, associations, and not-for-profits. Show less



Zipko Strategy

• Owner

  • Jul 2013 - Present

  Zipko Strategy is a consultancy serving the strategic communications needs of businesses, not for profit organizations, government agencies and advocacy organizations. Zipko Strategy is based in downtown Saint Paul and provides high level public affairs, media relations, crisis communications, grassroots advocacy, online content management, and marketing support. Zipko Strategy offers clients more than 20 years of experience in media, public affairs and government. For the past 11 years Mike Zipko has been a Vice President at the public affairs consulting firm Goff Public. Prior to that, he worked at other public relations firms and served as a spokesman for elected officials including Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman and Governor Arne Carlson and as deputy communications director for Governor-elect Jesse Ventura’s transition office. He began his career as a producer and assignment editor in Twin Cities television newsrooms. Show less