Jay Propes is a Partner in Mercury's Austin, Texas office and has represented private companies, individuals, quasi-governmental entities and professional trade associations in over a quarter century as a governmental affairs specialist and lobbyist. He has represented interests before the Texas legislature, state agencies and the United States Congress.
Jay Propes is a political/strategic consultant and lobbyist with over three decades of public-affairs and governmental relations experience at the state and federal levels. After graduating from Baylor in 1990 (B.A., Political Science & Economics), Propes began his career on Capitol Hill working for his hometown Congressman, Ralph Hall, and moved to Austin in mid-1992. He served 8 years as Director of Governmental Affairs and Executive Director for the Texas Ophthalmological Association, representing nearly 900 of Texas' eye physicians and surgeons before the Texas Legislature, agencies, and the U.S. Congress.
Since 2000, Propes has represented a myriad of clients simultaneously in governmental relations, public affairs strategies, and crisis management across almost all business and professional sectors. For over twenty years, he has helped professional associations, affiliated interest groups and corporations assemble legislative and public affairs teams across the United States and coordinate their work across the geographies to develop consistent messaging and strategy to assist in their successes. He advises political action committees in their formation, governance, and operational effectiveness.
Propes is a partner in the public affairs firm Mercury, a subsidiary of Omnicom, with fifteen offices across the United States.
Jay lives in Austin with his wife and two teenage sons.
1030 15th Street, NW, Suite 590 West, Washington, DC, 20005,
1) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory &, Natsis LLP OBO Matthew & Dalya Meisel
3) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
5) Energetics Technology Center
7) Massif
8) Mayo Clinic
9) National Association of Credit Specialists
10) National Border Patrol Council
11) National Fire Sprinkler Association
12) National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees
13) PROGENY SYSTEMS
14) The High Technology Foundation
15) The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, STRONG STAR
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1030 15th Street, NW, Suite 590 West, Washington, DC, 20005,
1) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory &, Natsis LLP OBO Matthew & Dalya Meisel
3) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
5) Energetics Technology Center
6) Hackensack University Health Network
8) Massif
9) Mayo Clinic
10) MemorialCare
11) National Association of Credit Specialists
12) National Border Patrol Council
13) National Fire Sprinkler Association
14) National Forum of Black Public Administrators
15) National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees
16) PROGENY SYSTEMS
17) The High Technology Foundation
18) The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, STRONG STAR