Work in The Private Sector
Ridge is the founder and CEO of Ridge Global, an advisory firm in Washington, D.C.
Ridge served on a state-appointed incident review panel which investigated the Virginia Tech massacre of April 2007.
In July 2010, companies seeking to use hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation engaged Ridge and his company at $75,000 a month to help them gain support.
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