Rowdy Gaudet serves as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Communications. Gaudet, a Lake Charles native, brings an abundance of policy and communication experience from more than a decade of public and private service, most recently at V. Graham, a financial services firm.

Gaudet earned his master’s degree in business administration from Louisiana State University and his bachelor’s degree in communications from McNeese State University. He also obtained an Executive Certificate in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Through leadership positions at Baton Rouge City Hall, including as the District 3 councilman on the East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council, he has fine-tuned skills ranging from government relations to strategic planning and crisis communications. He resides in Baton Rouge with his wife and their four children.