A US consultant at the centre of a row over campaign donations has worked on a contract for the new Bermuda Tourism Authority.

Derrick Green — who worked for the OBA campaign in the run-up to the 2012 general election — worked on a public awareness and branding campaign for the hived-off tourism body.

Bermuda advertising and design firm Cosmic confirmed Mr Green — a university friend of Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell — had worked with the company on the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) campaign.

Cosmic’s Sean Collier said: “We were hired by the Tourism Authority to do some public awareness and branding and design — Mr Green was involved as a consultant on part of the project.

“He was consulting with us and the Authority to give advice in areas we didn’t have knowledge in — we are basically designers.”

Mr Collier, however, declined to discuss the exact nature of the work for the campaign.

He said: “We were hired by the BTA to do some campaign work. I’m not really at liberty to say what it was — we do a bunch of different things for the Authority.”

Mr Collier added: “Once we finished the project, we no longer needed his expertise.”

Mr Green worked with Cosmic for several weeks over February and March on the BTA contract, just before the BTA officially took over from the Government-run former Department of Tourism.

Mr Green was employed as a consultant to the former Bermuda Democratic Alliance from 2008, which merged in 2011 with the United Bermuda Party to form the OBA.

Mr Green played a key role in the new party’s successful 2012 general election campaign — and was one of the signatories on the controversial OBA-linked Bermuda Political Action Club, which was set up with $350,000 in donations from US tycoon Nathan Landow and American business associates.

The existence of the money — said to be used for a campaign to mobilise voters in the run-up to the election — was not known to party chiefs until 18 months later, which prompted the OBA chairman to launch a probe into the affair. Mr Hollis’ report, released last Friday, said then-campaign Chairman Michael Fahy was aware of the account, although the party executive was not informed until much later.

The report slated the lack of proper accounting for the use of the money and said its establishment was against party rules.

BTA chief Bill Hanbury is off the Island and the authority did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

And a series of questions to Mr Crockwell also went unanswered.