Craig Snyder
Craig Snyder is the President and CEO of Indigo Global Corporation and the founder and President of Ikon Public Affairs. He also holds current appointments as Visiting Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
A veteran national business and political consultant, Snyder has emphasized healthcare as a significant specialty in both his business and not-for-profit endeavors.
The leading government relations advocate on behalf of our nation’s autism community for 25years, Snyder has helped author all federal legislation and policy on autism, having represented advocacy organizations including Cure Autism Now, Autism Speaks, and the Autism Policy Reform Coalition.
In 2009, Snyder was the original author of a policy proposal which became included in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) which created the Cures Acceleration Network at the National Institutes of Health.
This provision committed the NIH to the support of an entrepreneurial approach to translational medical research and development.
Touched personally by the tragedy of rare disease, Snyder created the non-profit foundation, The Three Angels Memorial Fund, and the fund managed under contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a project, “The Breath of Life”, to educate pediatricians concerning the diagnosis and possible prevention of Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia, a fatal disease in newborns.
Presently, at Indigo and Ikon, Snyder is representing a number of biotechnology and healthcare entities with respect to their regulatory and policy objectives in the federal government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Snyder is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Temple University School of Law. In 1992, he was the GOP nominee for Congress from Pennsylvania 1st Congressional District and he has recently formed an exploratory committee to consider the possibility of a candidacy for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022.