Team Expansion: Trident Welcomes Back Gil Connolly and Amber Clay and Adds Davey Roberts

WASHINGTON, DC:  Trident – a leading corporate and strategic communications, stakeholder management, and crisis firm — announced today three new hires:

• Gil Connolly: Returning to Trident from the Vinyl Institute, the trade association where Gil ran press and media relations for the last 2.5 years, Gil will focus on strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, thought leadership, and crisis and litigation communications for clients.
• Davey Roberts: Davey joins Trident after working for over 4 years at Reevemark and will specialize in providing strategic communications counsel for all manner of complex situations that clients face, including litigation, investigations, transactions, and crises, in addition to creating and implementing communications, brand, and reputation building programs for companies and NGOs and nonprofits.
• Amber Clay: Amber has been named an Associate at Trident after previously serving as an intern in both 2024 and 2025 upon her graduation from the University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism School. Amber helps start-ups to global brands across sectors as well as with NGOs and nonprofits on corporate and strategic communications, media relations, and crisis and litigation communications.

“We are thrilled to have Gil, Davey, and Amber on the Trident team,” said Josh Galper, Founding Partner at Trident.

“We’re excited that Gil is returning to Trident, where he rejoins as a seasoned veteran ready to provide counsel to clients that spans storytelling and strategic and crisis communications,” said Galper.

“Davey brings a sharp strategic mind and proven track record of guiding publicly listed and privately held clients through some of the most complex and high-stakes situations, bringing significant value and capabilities to Trident and our firm,” Galper continued.

“Amber continues a proud Trident tradition of joining after interning with us. She is an outstanding talent who is equally adept helping clients to build and execute compelling narratives and strategic communications programs and assisting clients in their most critical moments.”  

About Trident

Based in Washington, D.C. and with national and global reach, Trident is a full-service strategic communications and risk advisory firm, offering corporate and strategic communications,  stakeholder management, reputation management, thought leadership, executive positioning, litigation and investigations communications, issues management, crisis preparation, and crisis communications and crisis management. Led by two founding partners, Josh Galper and Adam Goldberg, Trident is top-ranked by Chambers USA for litigation, investigations, and crisis communications. Trident is also consistently named a PRNews agency elite firm.