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Vicki Parker is a principal with Parker Poe Consulting and has more than 35 years of lobbying and consulting experience on both the state and national level.

20+ years

Ms. Parker served as Director of the Political Division for the Republican National Committee, managing a staff of more than 40 and coordinating all Republican races on the local, state and national levels. In addition, Ms. Parker has experience in managing a national political campaign that carried the states in which she was the lead political operative. Her years in Washington helped her develop lasting relationships on both sides of the aisle. Ms. Parker has over 10 years of experience working with telecommunication companies and dealing with those issues. She has represented entities including the SC Cable Television Association as well as AT&T. For five years, Ms. Parker served as Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, where she successfully lobbied the General Assembly for issues impacting urban areas.

Jason Puhlasky is a Principal with Parker Poe Consulting and has more than 25 years of experience in lobbying, grassroots networking and media relations paid and earned as well as working on more than 100 political campaigns ranging from State House races to the President of the United States.

20+ years

Jason Puhlasky is a Principal with Parker Poe Consulting and has more than 25 years of experience in lobbying, grassroots networking and media relations paid and earned as well as working on more than 100 political campaigns ranging from State House races to the President of the United States. Prior to joining Parker Poe Consulting, Mr. Puhlasky worked as a consultant and vice president of state government relations, and represented clients before the South Carolina Legislature, specializing in telecommunications, education, environmental and economic development issues. Additionally, Mr. Puhlasky served as the South Carolina Political Director for the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999. He has also served as the Political Director for the South Carolina Republican Party and the Director of the South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus.

6-10 years

Callie Michael joined The Southern Group in 2010 with over eight years of valuable experience in both the budget and policy areas for state and federal government. Callie maintained a top-secret security clearance from the United States Department of Defense and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee on the Defense Subcommittee. In this capacity, Callie gained rare insight into the federal appropriations and committee process as well as the role and interplay of government relations in the legislative arena.Following Callie's work in Washington, DC, which provided valuable experience and contacts at the federal level, Callie returned to the South where she joined the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office as the Program Analyst for the Criminal Justice, Public Safety, and Judicial Subcommittees on Appropriations. Callie was soon promoted to the position of Principal Analyst, to assume the duties and responsibilities of the departing Deputy Director. As Principal Analyst, Callie oversaw the day-to-day operations of the office and the budget development process, briefed the director and Senators on budget and policy issues, supervised and assisted other budget staff members, and served as the main contact to the 56 Senators.Callie served as Senate President Pro Tem Tommie Williams' Policy Director during the 2010 legislative session. In this capacity, Callie provided key policy analysis and recommendations to Senate Leadership.Callie is a graduate of the University of Alabama.

CLARE HESTER

(Mississippi)
Clients:

1) Accelerate Learning, Inc.

2) American Medical Response

3) American Petroleum Institute

4) American Research and Policy Institute (ARPI)

5) Assured Guaranty Inc.

6) AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP and its Affiliates

7) Asurion

8) Bayer U.S. LLC

9) Beau Rivage Resorts, Inc.

10) BetterLesson

11) Caertwheel Care, Inc.

12) Capitol Resources LLC

13) Catapult Learning

14) Centene Corporation on behalf of its affiliates and subsidiaries

15) Cicero Action

16) Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

17) Community Health Center Association of Mississippi, Inc.

18) Crooked Letter Picture Company

19) Data Recognition Corporation

20) Diamondhead Water & Sewer District

21) Drax Group

22) Equifax, Inc.

23) Ergon, Inc.

24) Ernst & Young LLP

25) Exxon Mobil Corporation

26) Fortinet, Inc.

27) Gainwell Holding Corp.

28) Gulf States Toyota, Inc.

29) Hazel Health

30) HB Strategies on behalf of Good Rx

31) Health Resources LLC

32) Horne LLP

33) IGT and Its Affiliates

34) Ingalls Shipbuilding

35) Intervest Corp.

36) Kansas City Southern Railroad Company d/b/a Canadian Pacific Kansas City and as CPKC, is wholly owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Kansas City Limited

37) Kohler Co.

38) LS Power Midcontinent, LLC

39) Madison County Board of Supervisors

40) McLANE COMPANY, INC.

41) MedeAnalytics

42) Medical Transportation Management, Inc.

43) MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.

44) Memorial Hospital at Gulfport

45) MetaMetrics, Inc.

46) Milliman, Inc.

47) Mississippi Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

48) Mississippi Association of REALTORS

49) Mississippi Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians

50) Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board

51) Mississippi Consumer Finance Association

52) Mississippi Counseling Association

53) Mississippi Economic Council

54) Mississippi Economic Development Council, Inc.

55) Mississippi Healthcare Collaborative

56) Mississippi Optometric Association

57) Mississippi Orthopaedic Society

58) Mississippi Physicians Care Network

59) Mississippi Public Broadcasting Foundation

60) Mississippi Section, American College of Obstertricians & Gynecologists

61) Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure

62) MS Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs

63) NextEra Energy Resources, LLC

64) NOLA Education,LLC

65) Ochsner Health System

66) OneImaging

67) PATH Company LLC

68) Pine Gate Renewables LLC

69) PMI US Corporate Services Inc. and Affiliates

70) Reason Foundation

71) Regional Medical Center (Regional One Health)

72) Republic Services of MS / BFI Waste Services LLC

73) Samsara Inc.

74) Scholastic Inc

75) Secure Democracy USA And It's Affiliates

76) SecurityScorecard, Inc.

77) Sharecare

78) Singing River Health System

79) Southern Beverage Company, Inc.

80) Southern Renewable Energy Association

81) Spire Mississippi Inc.

82) State Shield Action

83) STChealth LLC

84) Stercus Bioanalytics, LLC

85) Teaching Strategies

86) The Learning Internet, Inc. DBA Learning.com

87) The University of Southern Mississippi

88) Thrivist

89) Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

90) Turo Inc.

91) Uber Technologies, Inc.

92) Unite USA Inc. (dba Unite Us)

93) Universal Health Services, Inc.

94) Wayne Halfway House, Inc.

95) Wonderschool

96) Workday

97) yes. every. kid

98) Youth Villages