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Teneo is a communications and advisory firm. Founded in June 2011 by Declan Kelly, Paul Keary, and Doug Band, Teneo currently has more than 800 employees

 

Oct. 22, 2016

Whether participating in glittery dinners with heads of state, or tĂŞte-Ă -tĂŞtes in the Oval Office, Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow Chemical, has regularly visited the White House.

 

He served as co-chairman of President Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. He stood beside the president onstage at events.

 

Many of these Washington appearances by Mr. Liveris — which have totaled more than two dozen since 2009 — were arranged with the help of Teneo, an advisory firm with close ties to the Democratic establishment. Dow is Teneo’s biggest and most lucrative account, paying millions of dollars a year in fees, according to a 2014 lawsuit filed against Dow and interviews with two Teneo employees.

 

Teneo bills itself as the chief executive’s best friend. Its pitch is that, with Teneo’s help, C.E.O.s can become not just business leaders but “thought leaders and global ambassadors,” according to its website.

 

To achieve that, Teneo hires influential political and corporate figures to advise clients. Last month it added its latest superstar, William J. Bratton, the former top police official in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, who will head a new security unit.

 

Other prominent employees have included former President Bill Clinton and Huma Abedin, who, starting in 2012, briefly worked at Teneo while employed at the State Department under Secretary Hillary Clinton. At the same time, Ms. Abedin held a paid position at the Clinton Foundation, the family-founded charitable organization. Last year, Teneo declined to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Ms. Abedin’s employment.

 

Mrs. Clinton is now, of course, the Democratic candidate for president. And in an election year defined by voters’ anti-insider sentiment, Teneo — a firm whose business plan is premised on putting its clients, not the firm itself, in the limelight — has found itself in the public eye for its relationship with the Clintons.

 

Interviews with more than a dozen current and former Teneo employees — most of whom asked not to be identified because of confidentiality agreements or concerns about endangering their relationships with Teneo — shed light on the inner workings of power and politics in the nation’s capital and beyond.

 

One of Teneo’s three founders, Declan Kelly, was a fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton and also served as an envoy to Northern Ireland during her tenure as secretary of state. A second founder, Douglas J. Band, was a close adviser to Mr. Clinton during and after his presidency.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/business/a-constellation-of-influencers-behind-the-curtain-at-teneo.html