Bash is currently a managing director at Beacon Global Strategies LLC,[1] which he founded with partners Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro in 2013.

[7] Bash graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Hoya, the school's student newspaper,[7] in 1989, he was an intern for Senator Chuck Robb.

[citation needed] In 2000, Bash served as the national security issues director for the presidential campaign of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.

[7] In that role, he advised the candidates, their surrogates, and staff on national security policy matters, including the Middle East peace process, counter-terrorism, non-proliferation, missile defense, and trade.

[citation needed] Bash was interviewed by The New York Times in regard to an October 5, 2013 U.S. Special Operations Forces raid in Tripoli, Libya that resulted in the capture of Abu Anas al-Libi, a terrorist target who was indicted in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

[12][13] In October 2020, Bash and 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter stating the disclosure of emails in the Hunter Biden laptop story "has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation".

[10] Bash married Robyn Cooke in 2009,[23] the vice president of government relations and public policy operations for the American Hospital Association.