Hacks, flacks and jacks of all trades.

KSE Partners (KSE) has many personas, faces, labels and identities; some carefully nurtured, others maliciously assigned. We are lobbyists, lawyers, legislative analysts, spin doctors, hacks, flacks and jacks of all trades. We are communicators, strategists and super salespeople. We ply our trade in the statehouse halls and committee rooms, on the Internet and in watering holes well appointed and worse for the wear. We exercise our first amendment rights to petition our government proudly.
 
KSE is not so easily defined however. We are 24 dedicated, hard-working professionals in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, DC with complex private lives, widely different backgrounds, interests and ambitions. Our employees define who we really are and today we celebrate a different side of KSE Partners. This week two of our employees, Nick Sherman and Jeremiah Johnson and their friend Max Krauss, who make up the band Torpedo Rodeo, released Vs. Sharktopus, a CD of original rock compositions that Seven Days described as a “terrific debut album.”
 
Nick is a hard-charging lobbyist who has worked on our Vermont statehouse team for the past five years. Jeremiah is a behind the scenes man; he is a legislative and regulatory analyst and a team leader with KSE FOCUS, our 50-state tracking business. Nick and Jeremiah work proudly and effectively for our clients but both have rich, diverse lives beyond the office. Nick is a classically trained pianist who writes lyrics, plays bass and sings lead in Torpedo Rodeo. Jeremiah is a self-taught drummer and online and offline graphic artist extraordinaire; he produced the artwork on the CD cover and has worked on KSE advertising campaigns. Both have played in numerous rock, jazz and jam bands since becoming fast friends at Chelsea High School in the late 1990s. Nick and Max both earned music degrees from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. These young men all work hard and play hard. Today we celebrate their energy, effort and commitment to excellence at work and beyond.
 
Click here to listen to Don’t Give That Guy Whiskey from Torpedo Rodeo’s debut album: http://torpedorodeo.com/mp3/06_dont_give_that_guy_whiskey.mp3