Mike Murphy is a founding principal and member of the Executive Committee of Navigators and is based out of Navigators’ Los Angeles, California, office.

Mr. Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants. He has been called a “media master” by Fortune Magazine, the GOP’s “hottest media consultant” by Newsweek, and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Mr. Murphy has handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns, including the successful gubernatorial races of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Christie Whitman, Dirk Kempthorne and Terry Branstad, as well as the successful senatorial races of Lamar Alexander, Slade Gorton, Spence Abraham, Jeff Sessions, Dirk Kempthorne, Steve Symms, Paul Coverdell and Larry Pressler. In 2000, he served as senior strategist for U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. In 2003, he was senior strategist for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s historic recall election in California.

In addition to his campaign work, he advises several Fortune 500 corporations and leading interest groups. He has advised leaders in more than five foreign countries.

Mr. Murphy is a frequent writer for The Weekly Standard, as well as writes and performs radio commentary for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Additionally, he is a regular election analyst on NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert. Mr. Murphy has appeared on CNN’s The Capital Gang, Crossfire, Hardball, Face the Nation and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In Los Angeles, Mr. Murphy also works as a writer and producer in the entertainment industry.

Mr. Murphy was born in Detroit, Michigan, and attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2001, he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's JFK School of Government.