Tom Egan — Founder
Tom Egan is a political strategist who has spent over a dozen years working at the highest levels of politics — and who uses that experience to run paid media and public affairs campaigns that actually move outcomes.
He started by interning in a governor’s office, working on campaigns, and learning how power works from the inside. He went on to work for Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he saw firsthand how policy gets made and how influence gets exercised on Capitol Hill. He served as Director of Digital Media under Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III during the Biden Administration. He ran a paid media team at Priorities USA, the largest Democratic Super PAC during the 2020 election cycle, and has worked on more than 15 independent expenditure campaigns across federal, state, and local races.
That political foundation is what makes his paid media work different. Most people in this space are media buyers who picked up some political knowledge along the way. Tom is a political operator who also executes paid media at massive scale — over $200 million in campaigns planned and executed. He’s served as the primary paid media consultant for an oil supermajor, leading advocacy campaigns across five countries. He’s worked alongside one of the world’s largest utilities and some of the largest development firms in the US, running full-scale license-to-operate campaigns for utility-scale solar projects across multiple states.
His work spans the Pentagon, Congress, Fortune 500 companies, Super PACs, 501(c)(4)s, candidates, ballot measures, and issue advocacy campaigns at every level of government.
He is a New Jersey native.
The Firm
Absecon Group is a public affairs firm built on political campaign experience. We run campaigns to influence people and drive action — whether the fight is in a county boardroom or on Capitol Hill. We bring the strategic discipline of national political campaigns to every engagement, and we execute the paid media ourselves. Strategy and execution under one roof.
The Name
Absecon Island sits on the New Jersey Shore — home to Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate, and Longport. The name comes from the Lenape word Absegami, meaning “little water.” The island hosted the 1964 Democratic National Convention, where LBJ accepted the nomination in Boardwalk Hall. Presidents from Grant to Roosevelt to Bush have come through. Power has always been built here.
The Absecon Lighthouse — 171 feet, 598,634 hand-laid bricks, designed by the man who would command the Union Army at Gettysburg — is the source of the Fragment mark. Four geometric shapes, separated. The viewer assembles the form. Permanence, signal, clarity through noise.
