A-Line Communications

About A-Line Communications

Clay Suddaby founded A-Line in 2007 to serve the strategic communications needs of new and emerging organizations in both business and the non-profit sector.

For more than 14 years, Clay has provided strategic communications advice and services to some of Canada's most prominent organizations, associations, political parties, corporations and unions. No stranger to long odds or high-profile issues, he was Communications Director for the BC Ferry Corporation
at the height of the fast ferry controversy in the late 1990s. Clay’s ability to translate complex public policy questions then served him well in his capacity as media relations director for the provincial government’s Nisga'a Treaty Implementation Project. He later returned to BC Ferries and played a key role assisting the new President and CEO in restructuring BC Ferries' corporate governance and public outreach and consultation initiatives. From late 1999 - 2001 he served as Director of Caucus Services for the NDP government under Premier Dan Miller and Premier Ujjal Dosanjh.

After the 2001 provincial election reduced the former NDP government to just two seats in the BC Legislature, Clay accepted an appointment as chief of staff to BC NDP Opposition Leader Joy MacPhail.

Over the next four years, Clay helped lead the Opposition's rebuilding efforts, focusing on legislative strategy and communications in Victoria, and grassroots issue campaigns elsewhere in the province, resulting in a longshot by-election victory in 2004. In 2005, he was appointed Director of Communications & Research for the NDP election campaign, which saw the NDP go from 3 seats to 33, the biggest political comeback in BC history. Clay then directed communications and media relations for Vision Vancouver's first civic election campaign. More recently, he consulted on Gregor Robertson's successful campaign for Vision Vancouver`s mayoral nomination and now-Mayor Robertson's subsequent winning campaign.

Educated at Douglas College and the University of Victoria, Clay lives in Vancouver with his wife Sam and their dog Sailor.

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