Michael E. Dutton
Director of Communications
1001 N. Fairfax Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314

Michael Dutton leads communications efforts for The Executive Leadership Council, an organization that strengthens the success, contributions and impact of African-American corporate business leaders. He is a Washington, DC-based public relations counselor with more than 30 years of experience in corporate communications, marketing and broadcasting production. Most recently, he was vice president of the Corporate Communications Practice for the Walker Marchant Group, a minority woman-owned public relations agency.

Previously, Michael directed Northeast Regional Communications for Fannie Mae. Prior to that, he was director of Tribal and Casino Public Relations for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, owners of one of the world’s largest casinos, Foxwoods. At Otis Elevator Company, a division of United Technologies Corporation, Michael was director of International Employee Communications. He led a task force to develop the company’s international Intranet communications network for 69,000 employees operating in nearly 200 countries.

Michael spent most of his career with IBM, where he produced corporate television and product advertising, organized recognition events and served as corporate spokesman on wide ranging issues including the company’s operations in South Africa, and trade and technology legislative issues.

He began his professional career in radio and television production, working with WVEC-TV News in Hampton, Virginia. He worked in New York City with WCBS Newsradio 88, WRVR-FM, Central Brooklyn Model Cities Television Project at Brooklyn College, the Children’s Television Workshop, and the AT&T Corporate Closed-Circuit Television network.

Michael earned his bachelors degree in Mass Media Arts from Hampton University in Virginia, and MS degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the City of New York.