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• Salim Alameddin

Salim Alameddin

Salim Alameddin is a Senior Vice President at Crossroads Strategies. Salim represents clients across numerous industries before legislative and executive branch officials and staff, focusing on foreign trade, energy and environment, federal lands, and tribal matters.

In addition, Salim provides strategic guidance and tailor-made issue monitoring resources to clients in a wide array of legislative and regulatory fields, applying a deep network among congressional staff to hone in on clients’ specific concerns and priorities.

Prior to joining Crossroads Strategies, Salim worked in both Chambers of Congress for then-Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn and Representative Will Hurd, where he assisted on issues including but not limited to tax policy, health care, and international trade.

A Texas native, Salim also assists clients in engaging his home state delegation and the broader Gulf Coast. He is active in campaigns for federal office in the region and has worked extensively at the intersection of clients’ state and federal government affairs.

Salim grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, and graduated from the University of Alabama with a B.A. in Political Science and History.



• Debbie Anderson-Brooke

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Debbie Anderson-Brooke President

Debbie Anderson-Brooke has earned a reputation as a proven partner to global industry leaders, developing brand, communications and marketing strategies that navigate complex, multi stakeholder environments toward commercial success.

At Intel, Debbie led executive communications for the CEO, partnering with him to develop an award-winning strategy targeted at workforce inclusion. At Microsoft, she led marketing strategies for new product and platform investments. At Docker, she guided a non-profit, open-source organization toward commercial profitability and acquisition. At Convoy, she advised the company’s COO and President through multiple financial rounds and eventual shut down. At Bitium, she built and ran a high-performing marketing team on the way toward acquisition by Google.

Over the last 30 years, Debbie has won the confidence and respect of hundreds of senior executives by repeatedly demonstrating her determination to stay in the foxhole until the job is done. Managing activist investors, disgruntled workforces and even unhappy Presidents, the key to her many successful engagements has been her personal commitment to transparency, accountability and the success and the wellbeing of the individual executive.



• Mike Burns

Mike Burns

Mike is the­­ Managing Partner at KP. With a wide variety of clients, Mike has been involved in several major policy areas including energy, water resources, environmental regulation, and ports and the supply chain.

In addition to public affairs issues, Mike has managed communication programs that involved crisis communications, social media, corporate reputation, and product marketing. He works with California corporations and small business owners, state business associations, and philanthropic and foundation groups.



• Joe Crosby

Joe Crosby

Joe serves as MultiState's CEO. He is involved in all aspects of the firm’s efforts to help clients resolve the challenges they face in the state and local government arena, with a concentration on providing strategic counsel, identifying and deploying political assets, and advancing tax policy objectives.

Prior to joining MultiState in 2011, Joe was with the Council On State Taxation (COST) for more than a decade, ending his tenure there as COO & senior director, policy. Joe has also served as national director of state legislative services for Ernst & Young LLP; vice president with a state legislative tracking firm; and director of a grassroots canvass operation in California.

Joe is a nationally recognized expert on state and local business tax policy. He was identified by State Tax Notes as the “single most influential person in state taxation” and named as the publication’s inaugural Person of the Year. Joe is routinely quoted in trade and national publications on tax policy matters, has regularly testified before state legislatures, the U.S. Congress, and other state and national policy-making bodies, and has given hundreds of presentations to local, regional, and national business groups.

Joe is past president of the State Government Affairs Council, the premier national association for multistate government affairs executives, and he served on the board of the Washington Area State Relations Group. He earned his bachelor's degree in history from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and completed graduate course work in economic policy at American University in Washington.



• John Doherty

John Doherty

John Doherty joined the KP team in 2024. Prior to joining KP Public Affairs, Doherty was the principal of Doherty Law Group. He has over 20 years of experience in state and local policy and politics, including serving as Chief of Staff to Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico for his entire term; serving as Vice President of Government Affairs for United Health Group, a Fortune 10 company specializing in healthcare; serving as General Counsel for TechNet, an association of the world’s largest technology companies; and serving as CEO of the Civil Justice Association of California.



• Jay Driscoll

Jay Driscoll

A Managing Partner at Forbes Tate Partners, Mr. Driscoll served as the Director of Government Affairs at CTIA – The Wireless Association® prior to joining CFW and FTP. There, Jay led the group’s Democratic lobbying shop. He was responsible for implementing the CTIA’s legislative agenda – which focused on tax, competition, and spectrum issues.

Jay also spearheaded efforts to develop the PAC budget for House and Senate Democrats.

Before his tenure at CTIA, Jay was a top Legislative Assistant for former Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) – handling a broad set of issues before the Commerce, Finance, and Energy and Natural Resources Committees.

Mr. Driscoll’s most noteworthy efforts during his time with Senator Baucus include his work on Universal Service and Spectrum Reform, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act (SAFETEA-LU), Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization, and the Energy Policy Act of 2003.

Before joining Senator Baucus’, Jay served as a leading economist for the Montana Public Service Commission. Here, he concentrated on the economic analysis of the telecommunications, and oil and gas industries. Along those lines, Mr. Driscoll also served as the chief analyst on numerous high-profile dockets that involved investor-owned and regulated utilities – and provided valuable counsel to several national public utility organizations.

Long active in Democratic politics, Jay served as Chief of Staff to the Minority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives and Regional Political Director for the Montana Democratic Party. He was also an active member of the Obama campaign’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Task Force, where he helped to shape then-Senator Obama’s technology and innovation platform.

A third-generation Montanan, Mr. Driscoll has a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Montana. He resides with his wife Erin P. Billings in Washington, DC.



• Jason Gleason

Jason Gleason

Jason Gleason is an Executive Vice President at Crossroads Strategies with expertise in many areas such as energy, environment, and the tech sector. He thrives in solving complex problems that require difficult political and policy decisions. Jason has helped clients develop and implement advocacy strategies to secure federal funding from numerous agencies, advance legislation on challenging issues, and build longstanding relationships with key decision-makers. He helps lead Crossroads’ engagement with the House Democratic Caucus.

Jason joined Crossroads Strategies in 2018 after nearly two decades of service in the House and Senate. As Chief of Staff for Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD), Jason helped secure the Congressman’s assignment on the prestigious Energy and Commerce Committee. He advised the Congressman throughout the committee’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act, as well as comprehensive climate change and energy legislation. Jason also served on the staff of former Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD). During that time, Sarbanes chaired the Senate Banking Committee and authored the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley law. Jason led the Maryland Congressional Delegation’s successful 2005 BRAC campaign, bringing tens of thousands of high-tech and intelligence jobs to the state.

Jason graduated from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA with a B.A. in History.



• Gordon Goldstein

Gordon Goldstein

A senior advisor to Concordant, Gordon M. Goldstein is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). From 2010 to 2018, he was also a managing director at Silver Lake, the world’s largest investment firm in the global technology industry. Goldstein represented Silver Lake as a member of the U.S. delegation to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications in the United Arab Emirates and also served on the American delegation to the 2014 UN International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference in South Korea.

Goldstein is a former managing director at Clark & Weinstock, a government relations, corporate communications, and strategy consulting firm. He also served as a consultant to the Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategy advisory firm in Washington, DC. He was a senior advisor to the strategic planning unit of the executive office of the UN secretary-general, and codirected the CFR project on the information revolution and the Brookings Institution project on sovereign wealth funds and global public investors. Goldstein is a former Wayland fellow and visiting lecturer at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He was a visiting lecturer at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

Goldstein is the author of Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, a study of national security strategy and White House decision-making, which was a Foreign Affairs best seller.

He has appeared on ABC, the BBC, CNN, and MSNBC, and his articles, op-eds, and book review essays have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Atlantic, Newsweek, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Spanish-language newspaper El Pais, for which he is a contributing commentator on the global technology industry, internet, and cybersecurity.

Dr. Goldstein is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Columbia University, where he was an International Fellow and was awarded a BA, MIA, M.Phil and Ph.D in political science and international relations. He continues his affiliation with the university as a nonresident fellow of Columbia Law School's Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security. He is a member of the advisory board for the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.



• John Green

John Green

John is Chairman and Co-founder of Crossroads Strategies, LLC, a multidisciplinary federal government relations firm based in Washington, DC. During his 21 years in the advocacy community, John has successfully achieved policy changes in virtually every field of federal advocacy, notably in technology policy and resources issues. Prior to his work at Crossroads, John co-founded Federalist Group, LLC. Federalist Group was acquired by Ogilvy Public Relations and grew to be one of the top five government relations firms in Washington.

John has been involved in public policy and politics at the federal level for two decades. He began his career working in the United States Senate, where he handled policy and administrative matters for the Assistant Majority Leader and eventual Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. Additionally, he has served as a campaign manager for a successful congressional campaign, national finance chairman for multiple U.S. Senate campaigns, and a senior advisor to a presidential campaign.

John holds a Bachelor of Arts in General Studies from the University of Mississippi.



• Lucy Panza

Lucy Panza

Lucy Panza is an Executive Vice President at Crossroads Strategies, LLC. Lucy primarily advocates for clients in the judiciary, tech, appropriations, and immigration policy areas, providing strategic counsel to clients as well as direct advocacy before Congress.

Before joining Crossroads, Lucy spent three years at Amazon on the political affairs team. There, Lucy focused on outreach to Senate Democrats and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on a wide range of issues, including competition and antitrust, workplace health and safety, tax, immigration, telecommunications, postal and delivery logistics, sustainability and environmental corporate responsibility, diversity in media and film, customer privacy issues, and more. Lucy was also proud to help lead Amazon’s Political Action Committee and political giving strategy.

Lucy began her career in the United States Senate, first with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and then with Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer. She first joined Leader Schumer’s team as Counsel when he was serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she focused on immigration, domestic violence, and terrorism victim issues, and then in the leadership office, where she led on these issues on behalf of the Leader and the entire caucus. During her time in the Leader’s office, Lucy was proud to play a critical role in passing dozens of pieces of legislation, ranging from government funding bills to new immigrant green card provisions, to the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, to a bevy of new laws compensating victims of terror. Lucy also helped to shepherd the caucus through two government shutdowns.

Lucy holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from New York University. She is a proud immigrant from Argentina and resides in Maryland with her family.



• Curtis Philp

Curtis Philp

Curtis Philp joined the Alpine Group after serving as deputy chief of staff to former Congressman Lamar Smith (TX-21) and as a staff member with the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Curtis was the primary staff member responsible for policy and communications in Congressman Smith’s personal office. In this capacity, Curtis oversaw all legislative and press operations, which focused heavily on House Judiciary Committee issues – including intellectual property, privacy, telecommunications, technology, and immigration. He also provided counsel to the House Science Committee on intellectual property matters.

Prior to joining Congressman Smith’s office, Curtis worked for Representatives Louie Gohmert (TX-01) and Bill Cassidy (LA-06) handling a similar portfolio of issues. Curtis started his Congressional career in the office of Senator Charles Grassley (IA).

Curtis earned a B.B.A. in Management and Marketing from the University of Iowa and a J.D. from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, Erin, and their daughter.



• Jon Ross

Jon Ross

Jon is a Partner at KP. He started his lobbying career with the San Francisco law firm of Landels, Ripley and Diamond, which he left in 1996 to help start the predecessor firm to KP, the Kahl Pownall Companies. Jon leads KP’s advocacy efforts for financial services clients, including Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and the California Mortgage Bankers Association, among others. He also leads KP’s technology practice and has become a key voice on virtually all issues impacting Silicon Valley. Jon was the first outside lobbyist retained by Google (in 2006) and subsequently has been retained by other technology leaders, including Cisco, Airbnb, and Lyft. Jon also represents five large, national accounting firms (PWC, KPMG, EY, Deloitte and Grant Thornton). Jon’s other clients include NBC Universal, the California Restaurant Association and the Hertz Corporation.



• Eric Solomon

Eric Solomon

A senior advisor to Concordant, Dr. Eric Solomon has worked at the convergence of branding and marketing, technology, and consumer psychology for nearly 30 years. He began as an academic, earning his PhD in cognitive science with a focus on language and artificial intelligence. Transitioning to business, Eric led research and brand strategy for agencies before taking up senior marketing positions at YouTube, Spotify, Google, Instagram, and Bonobos (owned by Walmart), where he served as their Chief Marketing Officer. Currently, he's at the helm of The Human Operating System, an advisory platform dedicated to integrating human-centric strategies across all business units.



• Jamin Spitzer

Jamin Spitzer

A senior advisor to Concordant, Jamin Spitzer, often described as a "PR guy who's good at math," is the founder and lead partner at Abacus Insights Partners. His firm helps large communications organizations—including public relations, social media, analyst relations, and internal communications—embrace data-driven strategies. By leveraging both traditional methods and innovative technologies, Abacus provides tailored insights into earned media’s impact on brand perception. These insights not only enhance decision-making but also enable clear articulation of results in the language of executive leadership.

Before establishing his firm, Jamin dedicated 16 years to Microsoft, where he notably rebuilt and led the analytics division within the communications organization. His career also includes impactful roles at PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, and he began his professional journey as a Congressional press secretary.

Jamin is an active member of the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) Measurement Commission and the Association for the Measurement & Evaluation of Communication (AMEC). He resides in Seattle with his wife and their two children.



• Andrew Stern

Andrew Stern

Vice President of Media Relations at Concordant, Andrew Stern is a public relations and media relations expert with extensive experience with global media.

Andrew has served as a trusted communications advisor across multiple industries, including healthcare, retail, and finance, both in-house and in agencies. Most recently, Andrew was an Associate Partner at ICR Consilium in London, where he led media relations strategy and execution for a range of biotech, pharma, and technology companies. Prior to this, Andrew's past roles include media relations positions at Cardinal Health, Ace Hardware, and No Limit Agency. Andrew also has expertise in advertising planning and buying from his time at Starcom Worldwide.

Andrew holds a degree in Strategic Communications from The Ohio State University, and currently resides in London, England.



• Cornell Teague

Cornell Teague

Cornell Teague provides his clients strategic advice and advocacy around the federal budget and appropriations processes, including insight into the convergence between our Nation’s national security and fiscal policy objectives. Teague joined Alpine Group in 2017, after spending seven years as a Professional Staff Member on the House Appropriations Committee, including the last three with the Subcommittee on Defense, where he was the primary staff member responsible for the Committee’s oversight of the Department of Defense’s operations accounts, an annual expenditure exceeding $250 billion across the Services and Defense-Wide agencies.

Before joining the Defense Subcommittee, Teague worked for the House Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Subcommittee, focusing primarily on cybersecurity and transportation security budgeting and appropriations. He began working on the Committee as an aide to then Full Committee Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky. While on Capitol Hill, he also participated in 114th Congress’ John C. Stennis Fellows Program for Public Service, a bipartisan, bicameral leadership program for senior staff in the U.S. Congress.

The method for funding federal programs through discretionary spending can seem convoluted to the casual observer and Teague is a frequent guest lecturer at universities, and in front of businesses, organizations, civil servants and clients.

Teague has also worked in The White House, serving President George W. Bush at the Homeland Security Council and USA Freedom Corps. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and received his Master of Business Administration at George Mason University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.



• Colin Tooze

Colin Tooze

A Senior Vice President at Forbes Tate Partners, Colin is a longtime advisor to technology companies. A native of Yokohama, Japan, Colin has spent his career advocating on behalf of companies of all sizes that face regulatory scrutiny on the path to growth.

As an early leader on Uber’s public policy team, Colin built and led teams of government relations and PR professionals responsible for passing favorable ridesharing laws in 10 states. He led dozens of successful state, county, and local campaigns for the company, including high-stakes regulatory campaigns in Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, and New York City. During his time with Uber, Colin was the company’s primary point of contact with U.S. governors, and served in interim national policy leadership roles in the U.S. and India.

Following his time at Uber, Colin built and led the public affairs and communications function for Pacaso, a real estate technology startup. Earlier in his career, he was Director of Government & Corporate Affairs for Expedia, Inc., where he led a successful multistate campaign that resulted in annual tax savings to the company in the tens of millions of dollars.

Colin’s work has been covered by the Washington Post, Politico, Fortune, the Tampa Bay Times, the New York Post, and the New York Times.

Colin studied English Literature at the University of Richmond, and received a degree of Juris Doctor from the law school at the University of Notre Dame. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two children.



• Camille Wagner

Camille Wagner

Camille works on the lobbying team at KP. She has 14 years of extensive experience working at the highest levels of government on complex policy, political and budget issues. As the Legislative Secretary to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr she gained invaluable insight into the policy and budget development process and was a lead negotiator for numerous pieces of legislation, including extension of the Cap and Trade Program, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, and the California Homeowner’s Bill of Rights.



• Stefan Weitz

Stefan Weitz

A senior advisor to Concordant, Stefan Weitz is an 18-year Microsoft veteran who led and built technologies used by a billion people across the planet - and then joined the leadership of the 2nd largest independent eCommerce company in North America before negotiating a successful exit in 2018. As a best-selling author on technology, multi-patent holder and angel investor, Stefan lives to envision and build the future.

Currently, Stefan is the co-founder and CEO of HumanX – the world’s preeminent AI advisory and conference. Venture-backed and aligned with the needs of enterprises needing to deploy AI to obtain their competitive edge, HumanX helps turn inspiration into action.
Stefan is also a founder and General Partner of SilverCircle, a stage-agnostic venture fund that has invested in 31 deals since inception in late 2021. With over 160 LPs, nearly all of whom are operators, SilverCircle is more than just capital – it is the knowhow and expertise to change the venture equation for the better.

Stefan was previously the founder and Managing Director of ’87, an investment fund and business incubator in Chicago, IL. In his capacity there, he invested in and founded businesses aligned with a direct-to-consumer, data-backed thesis.
Stefan is an Officer and founder of Stella Center, a PTSD-treatment company that uses a revolutionary procedure to combat the effects of trauma. Finally, Stefan is a co-founder and initial Chief Product Officer of WeAreGiant, a company that connects musicians with their most passionate fans (launching in H2 2022).

Prior to ’87, Stefan was the Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Radial, where he transformed the overall company’s strategy to capitalize on the current state of eCommerce. He led a 320-person team that built the company’s technical products and services and managed $250M in revenue. After driving 7x growth in one of the product lines in 16 months, the team sold Radial to BPost for $850M, at twice the EBITDA multiple for which it sold 24 months earlier.

At Microsoft, Stefan was on the founding team of Bing.com and worked with people and organizations across the globe to build and promote industry-leading Search technologies. Bing grew from under 7% to nearly 30% US market share during his tenure and achieved profitability on over $3B in revenue.

Prior to Search, Stefan led the strategy and development of Microsoft’s next generation online platforms, was the inventor and General Manager for Microsoft's muni WiFi strategy, built a cybersecurity defense unit, designed open-source development models for their flagship product, ran diligence and M&A efforts for a half-dozen acquisitions, and launched several global products to market.
Stefan has been writing code since he was 8 years old and is fluent in both hardware and software architecture, trends, and potentials. His best-selling book, Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter, gained international prominence, and led to dozens of speaking engagements ranging from 10 to 25,000 people in places from TEDx to The Nantucket Project.

Stefan holds several US and international patents in the areas of big data and artificial intelligence. He is also an active investor in 26 startups ranging from healthcare to virtualization, consumer food and eCommerce.

Stefan serves on two corporate boards and two non-profit boards, including the GenCon Board for Conservation International and is active in Endeavor Global, a non-profit dedicated to incubating high-impact startups in developing markets.



• Sarah Wills

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A global business leader with over 30 years of experience in politics and policy, corporate strategy, communications, marketing, brand, and corporate citizenship, Sarah Wills is a trusted advisor to corporate, government and non-profit leaders across markets and industries.

Recognized for excellence in corporate affairs, Sarah has a uniquely broad lens developed from her experience as a political consultant, policy advisor in both chambers on Capitol Hill and to a Governor, and in leadership roles supporting CEOs in the finance, industrial, technology and healthcare sectors.

Prior to leading Concordant Advisory, Ms. Wills served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Cardinal Health, where she presided over communications, government relations, enterprise marketing, brand, and ESG. Earlier in her career, Wills spent ten years at GE serving in leadership roles within government relations, communications and global strategy, followed by a stint leading corporate affairs at Tempus AI, a precision medicine startup company.

Before her corporate career, Sarah spent fifteen years in politics and policy, initially as an Associate for David Axelrod and Associates, then several years as a Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill, Senior Policy Counsel to the Governor of New Jersey, and Executive Director for New Jobs for New York, a 501(c)(3) launched by then U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Roger Altman, founder of Evercore.

Based in Chicago, Ms. Wills serves on the Board of Directors of the Joffrey Ballet and the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Illinois Wesleyan University.