On the Move
P eople in ne w roles shaping t he debat e in Washington
ing oversight, working with a lot of members’
offices and officers to make sure that everything is running the way it’s supposed to.”
Kyle Nevins
Capitol Counsel, a lobbying firm focused
on tax and health care, has hired Kyle Nevins,
the deputy chief of staff and lead floor aide to
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. Nevins is a principal at the firm.
“In the House Republican Conference, 50
percent of them have only been here for two
years and three months,” says Nevins. “You’ve
got all these new people in the Republican
majority and figuring out what makes them
tick is a pretty valuable thing to folks on the
outside. I think that’s where I can come in and
have an immediate impact.”
Nevins, 33, wants to help attract clients focused on financial services, energy and trade
issues. Before joining Cantor’s staff in 2009,
Nevins was a floor aide to Missouri Republican
Roy Blunt, at the time House majority whip.
Phil Kiko
The last time Phil Kiko was out of government, Republicans had lost control of
the House in 2007 and Kiko took a senior
advisory position with law firm of Foley and
Lardner’s public policy team. He stayed nearly
four years, until the end of 2010 when the
GOP regained control of the House and Kiko
was hired as staff director and general counsel
for the Committee on House Administration,
managing a 25-person staff for Chairman
Dan Lungren of California.
Lungren lost his re-election bid in a redrawn
district last year to Democrat Ami Bera. Republican Candice S. Miller of Michigan was
appointed to replace him as chairman, and
Kiko, 61, has left the Hill for the Smith-Free
National Security
Jaclyn Houser,
Caitlin Howarth
In January, the Truman National Security Project, which
was started in 2005 to train upand-coming progressive leaders on national security issues,
merged its staff and operations
with the 40-year-old Center for
National Policy, a think tank
that focuses on economic security. The joint organization
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Group, a bipartisan lobbying firm.
Kiko’s career stretches back to the last years
of the Nixon Administration, when he was an
associate legal counsel for the National Republican Congressional Committee. In 1979
he went to work for Rep. Jim ­Sensenbrenner
of Wisconsin as legislative director. There followed a succession of jobs with the Interior
and Education Departments, the House Chief
Administrative Officer and the House Science
Committee. From 2001 to 2007 he was general counsel and chief of staff for House Judiciary. With House Administration, he helped
Republicans organized oversight.
“It’s a very busy committee,” he says. “You’re
sort of managing the House and basically do-
has hired ­Jaclyn
Houser as advocacy director and Caitlin
­Howarth as director of leadership development.
Houser most recently managed
Democrat Teresa Hensley’s unsuccessful race against Missouri
Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler
and before that was press liaison
for the Laborers International
Union of North America, which
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Tim Carey
After jobs with two Democrats from
California, Anna G. Eshoo and Brad Sherman, Tim Carey is now a vice president at
the lobbying and public affairs firm Venn
Strategies.
Carey worked for Eshoo from 2002 to
2007, and since then tracked financial services issues as Sherman’s legislative director.
Sherman lost a primary race last year to Rep.
Howard L. Berman.
Carey, 34, says he’ll continue to work on
financial services issues but will expand to
the other areas, including health care issues.
represents construction workers,
and was a director of marketing
and communications for the
Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
“Even though I don’t have
specific experience on national
security issues,” says Houser, “the
advocacy piece is what attracted
me here.”
Houser, 29, helps Truman
fellows, political partners and
like-minded national security
leaders engage in policy cam-
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paigns, including those supporting energy
independence
and interna tional aid.
Howarth, 28, was a national
policy director for the Roosevelt
Institute Campus Network, a
liberal group for student advocacy. She helps Truman with
leadership development for rising national security experts in
Washington.
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Lobbying
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Politics
Jessica Ennis
For six months last year, Jessica ­Ennis
worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential
campaign as deputy director of operations,
helping to manage scheduling, advance work
and technology services, among other areas.
She has now joined the Republican political-­
consulting and public affairs firm FP1 Strategies in Washington as senior vice president.
FP1 Strategies worked on Romney’s independent expenditure advertising during the
general election portion of the 2012 presidential campaign, and one of its partners, Danny
Diaz, was for a time based out of Boston as a
senior adviser to Romney.
Ennis, 37, was on the Republican National
Committee staff from 2005 to 2012 and was
deputy political director during the 2008 campaign cycle when Diaz was communications
director. Another FP1 partner, Rob Jesmer,
who joined the firm in December after having been executive director of the National
Republican Senatorial Committee, was a regional political director at the RNC during
the 2006 cycle when Ennis was a regional
finance director.
Because it’s an off year for congressional
elections, Ennis is helping prepare 2014 congressional candidates. “A lot of these races
are gearing up already,” she says. “Now is
the time where they’re putting together their
teams. These races for governor and Senate
cost millions and millions of dollars, so folks
are getting ready and raising money.”
Technology
Becca Gould,
Kerry Murray
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Two former ­government affairs executives at computermaker Dell Inc., Becca
Gould and Kerry Murray, have gone
into business together on an internationally focused policy-consulting firm they call
Worldwide Insight. Gould, Dell’s lead lobbyist for 12 years, is CEO of the new firm, and
Murray, a senior counsel at Dell for seven
years, is chief operating officer.
The two see an opportunity to develop
and manage lobbying strategies on a global
basis, says Murray, “as opposed to the pure
retail lobbying on issues.” They plan to focus
on companies that want to expand their
businesses abroad, along with trade groups
Before joining Romney, Ennis was Southeast regional political director at the RNC,
where she coordinated voter turnout operations between the national and state parties
in congressional districts and Senate races.
During the 2010 election cycle, when Ennis
helped Republicans with voter turnout, the
party picked up 19 House seats in the Southeast, Marco Rubio of Florida was elected to
the Senate and North Carolina Sen. Richard
M. Burr was re-elected.
Ennis got her start in politics in her home
state, North Carolina, where she was executive
director for a county party and later finance
director for the state party for four and a half
years. She managed North Carolina Rep. Walter B. Jones’ 1998 re-election campaign, former
Rep. Bill Cobey’s unsuccessful race for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2004
and worked on turnout for President George
W. Bush’s general-election campaign in North
Carolina that year.
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whose members need help in other
countries.
Worldwide Insight, Gould and
Murray say, will help companies
develop plans to manage issues
abroad, including how to build up a brand with
other governments. “In the tech sector in particular,” says Murray, “we’re seeing things like
local protection — if you want to sell technology
in a market, your products have to have local
content — and then you have the developing
things like cloud computing.”
Gould, 52, who worked as a Republican
counsel at the House Energy and Commerce
Committee early in her career, built out Dell’s
lobbying team in major capitals with a team of
20. Before joining Dell, Murray, 48, was a director of international regulatory affairs at MCI
and a senior adviser in the Federal Communications Commission’s international bureau.
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