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James H. "Jay" Roberts is the most recent member of our team. Prior to joining GeorgiaLink, Mr. Roberts served in the Georgia State House of Representatives (2003-2015) while in the House, Jay was elected as both Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the House Majority Caucus by his peers. Former Gov. Sonny Perdue asked him to serve as his Administration Floor Leader in his second term. He served in that capacity for 2 years. Jay was named the Chairman of the House Transportation Committee by the Speaker of the House in 2010. He served as Chairman of the House Transportation Committee for 6 years. During his tenure in the House, Jay served on the Agriculture & Consumer Affairs, Ethics, Economic Development & Tourism, Ways & Means, Appropriations, Rules, Game & Fish and Transportation Committees. Jay has served several communities during his 13 years in the House. He served Irwin, Ben Hill, Tift, Turner, Coffee, Telfair, Wheeler, Wilcox and Jeff Davis counties. Governor Nathan Deal appointed Jay to the distinguish position of Director of Planning for the State of Georgia at the Georgia Department of Transportation. He was tasked with the planning of the State's Transportation projects including developing and implementing the STIP. Governor Kemp asked Jay to serve on his Transition Team. He was then asked by Governor Brian Kemp to continue to serve him as the Director of Planning. In September, 2019 Mr. Roberts joined GeorgiaLink Public Affairs Group. He and his wife Sarah have two children, and they reside in Irwin County.

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James M. Demers is the founder of The Demers Group and Demers, Blaisdell Inc., he presently serves as President & CEO of Demers, Blaisdell & Prasol Inc. Mr. Demers is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and former congressional candidate. He has over 40 years of experience in the legislative, regulatory and political fields. He has been a political commentator for numerous media outlets including ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News as well as NH news stations WMUR-TV, WBIN-TV and New England Cable News. He has been actively involved in advising presidential campaigns, serving as co-chairman of President Barack Obama's NH campaign in 2008. He presently serves on the advisory board of the NH Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College, chairman of the NH International Trade Advisory Commission and he is a "political insider" for Politico and the National Journal. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate to serve on the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which is the country's development financial institution. He has been recognized by numerous state and national publications as one of New Hampshire's "most influential" and "most powerful" people. He is a graduate of the University of Miami (FL) and he holds an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. He served three terms in the NH House where he served as the Assistant Minority Whip. He has also served as President and Executive Director of the New England-New York-New Jersey Financial Services Association and the National Card Coalition after doing corporate government affairs work for two national financial services companies. He is a resident of Concord, NH.

Arthur B. "Skin" Edge, IV is engaged in Governmental Relations and Consulting. Prior to joining GeorgiaLink, Mr. Edge served in the Georgia State Senate (1986-1996) and was Minority Leader of the Senate from 1992-1996. Mr. Edge served on the Appropriations, Special Judiciary (Chairman), Public Utilities and Health committees in the Senate. He also served on the Legislative Fiscal Affairs Committee and the Code Revisions Committee. Georgia Trend Magazine named Edge as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Georgia." He was voted "The Top Registered Lobbyist in Georgia in 2018" in a poll of legislators, state officials and lobbyists. He was also named by Business to Business Magazine as one of "The Ten Most Influential People under the Gold Dome." He is a graduate of the University of Georgia (BBA 1977) and the University of Georgia School of Law (J.D. 1980). He was a participant in the Leadership Georgia Class of 1988. Skin and his wife, Bambi, have three children and six grandchildren. They reside in Newnan, Georgia.

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Thomas Prasol serves as the Managing Director for Demers, Blaisdell & Prasol Inc. He has been providing strategy, lobbying, and association management for clients since 2011. He brings a myriad of experience in State and Federal government beginning his professional career as a Project Assistant to U.S. Senator Judd Gregg and as Policy and Field Coordinator for several State and Federal campaigns. In 2008 he transitioned to the position of Project Director for Senator Gregg where he handled federal appropriations in the areas of first responders. Upon Senator Gregg's retirement, he moved to the New Hampshire State Senate where he was a Legislative Aide to the Senate Education Committee. With his experience in federal and state government, Mr. Prasol brings another dimension to the firm in areas of strategy, management of special projects, and government affairs implementation. He continues to bring his experience and knowledge to assist State and Federal campaigns with strategy and policy research. In addition to his work for Demers, Blaisdell & Prasol, he serves on the Town Planning Board and has previously served as Chair of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board in his local community He received his Bachelor's degree in Politics from Saint Anselm College where he served as an Ambassador to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, and his Master's degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University. He currently resides in Hooksett, NH with his fiance' Maria and two dogs Zeus and Tyson.

GeorgiaLink Public Affairs Group focuses on identifying, developing, and securing relationships between clients and government. It provides comprehensive strategic representation for clients by utilizing broad-based expertise in governmental affairs. The firm monitors legislation and creates opportunities for a diverse clientele that includes Fortune 500 companies, state associations, small entrepreneurs, professional groups, and local government.

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GeorgiaLink has a client base with a broad range of interests. Its special focus has been in environmental, gaming, healthcare, telecommunications and banking.

John S. "Trip" Martin, III is the founder of GeorgiaLink Public Affairs Group. GeorgiaLink is a governmental affairs consulting firm which has been recognized by James magazine seventeen years in a row as the top lobbying firm in the state of Georgia. Mr. Martin began his Government Affairs career in 1981 as the Director of State Government Affairs in Georgia for Southern Bell. In 1986, he was promoted to the position of Director of Legislative Affairs for BellSouth in Washington, D.C. where his major responsibilities included the development and implementation of strategies for dealing with Congress on national telecommunications policy issues. He has served as the Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Southeastern Public Affairs Council and was a participant in the Leadership Georgia Class of 1983. He is the former Vice President of the University of Georgia National Alumni Association. Mr. Martin currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Advocacy Group, an international network of lobbying firms with offices in forty-eight states. Trip is married to Julie Brown, a native of Atlanta and President & CEO of Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone. Trip and Julie split their time between residences in Atlanta and Blue Ridge, Georgia, where he is a licensed realtor with the Blue Ridge office of Premier Mountain & Lake Property, Inc., and owns and operates Big Creek Alpaca Farms. Trip has three grown children and five granddaughters.

ROBERT BOSWORTH

(Alaska)

MORGAN BRADLEY-JONES

(Federal)
  • 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NWSUITE 500WASHINGTONDC20004

GEORGE COUTROS

(Rhode Island)
Clients:

GEORGE COUTROS

(New Hampshire)

KATHERINE DAPPER

(Federal)
  • 25 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NWSUITE 600WashingtonDC20001-7400

Clients:
  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

MICHELLE DUCKETT

(Federal)

MARYANNE DUNLAP

(Federal)
  • 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NWSUITE 500WASHINGTONDC20004

  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

  • 2025590170

  • 800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 800WashingtonDC20002

Clients:

1) Action Now Initiative, LLC (ANI)

2) AICPA Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

3) Airlines for America

4) Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

5) Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas

6) Alkermes, Inc.

7) Ally Financial Inc.

8) ALPHA Facilities Solutions, LLC

9) Altria Client Services LLC

10) American Association of Timeshare Owners Inc.

11) American Land Title Association

12) American Shrimp Processors Association

13) Apollo Education Group

14) AT&T Services, Inc.

15) Atlantic Broadband

16) Autos Drive America

17) Aventiv Technologies LLC and various subsidiaries

18) Black Belt Energy

19) Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

20) Brennan Center for Justice

21) Bristol-Myers Squibb

22) BYD Motors Inc.

23) Chesapeake Bay Commission

24) City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge

25) Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIHA)

26) Cook Inlet Region Incorporated (CIRI)

27) Credit Union National Association

28) Diageo North America, Inc.

29) Diesel Outboards LLC

30) Douglas County Public Utility District

31) Dropbox, Inc.

32) Eisai, Inc.

33) Energy Innovation Reform Project

34) Expedia, Inc.

35) Financial Service Centers of America (FiSCA)

36) Fitch Ratings

37) Genentech, Inc.

38) Google Inc.

39) Green Business Certification Inc.

40) Guardian Centers of Georgia, LLC

41) Heat Biologics, Inc.

42) HollyFrontier Corporation

43) Huntington Ingalls Incorporated

44) IDEMIA Identity & Security USA, LLC

45) Infor (US), Inc.

46) Intellia Therapeutics

47) Intoxalock

48) JoshCo Group, LLC

49) KnowBe4, Inc.

50) Koch Companies Public Sector LLC

51) Lake Tindall, LLP on behalf of Mississippi Levee Board

52) LCMC Health

53) LHC Group

54) Liberty Mutual Group Inc.

55) Lodging Solutions, LLC d/b/a Accommodations Plus International

56) LOOP LLC

57) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)

58) Marine Jet Power, Inc. (MJP)

59) Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

60) McCain Institute Foundation

61) Merck & Co., Inc.

62) Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

63) National Association of Farm Service Agency County Office Employees (NASCOE)

64) National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies

65) National Association of Realtors

66) National Athletic Trainers' Association

67) National Medal of Honor Museum

68) New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides

69) New York Air Brake, LLC

70) Nissan North America, Inc.

71) nLIGHT Corporation

72) Norfolk Southern Corporation

73) Nuclear Innovation Alliance

74) OATLY, Inc.

75) Ocean Aero, Inc.

76) Paragon Healthcare, Inc.

77) Pernod Ricard USA

78) Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

79) PODS Enterprises, LLC

80) Port of Everett

81) Port of Kalama

82) Professional Golfers' Association of America

83) ProShare Advisors LLC

84) Protective Life Corporation

85) Raven Aerostar Technical Solutions

86) Raytheon Technologies Corporation

87) Ryan Air, Inc.

88) Safari Club International

89) SAFE Boats International, LLC

90) Salesforce.com, Inc.

91) Sanderson Farms, Inc.

92) Sanofi US Services Inc.

93) Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)

94) Sempra Energy

95) Shield AI, Inc.

96) SitelogIQ

97) Spider Strategies, Inc.

98) Spokane Tribe of Indians

99) SSA Marine

100) Sunrise Foods International Inc.

101) Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.

102) TikTok Inc.

103) TRANS UNION LLC

104) Transamerica Companies

105) Travere Therapeutics (fka Retrophin)

106) Truckee Tahoe Airport District

107) U.S. Sugar Corporation

108) United Site Services, Inc.

109) Van Ness Feldman, LLP on behalf of Columbia River Treaty Power Group

110) Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.

111) Visa, Inc.

112) VMware, Inc.

113) Washington State Department of Transportation

114) Zepher, Inc.

  • 800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 800WashingtonDC20002

Clients:

ASHLEY HAYES

(Federal)
  • 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NWSUITE 500WashingtonDC20004

CHARLOTTE IVANCIC

(Federal)
  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

Clients:

CARISSA KEMP

(Wyoming)

CARISSA KEMP

(Alaska)

CHRISTOPHER LAMOND

(Federal)
Clients:

1) AARP

2) Advanced Technology International (On behalf of National Armaments Consortium)

3) Advocate Aurora

4) Alkermes, Inc.

5) Alliance for Cell Therapy Now

6) Alliance for Drone Innovation (informal)

7) Allstate Insurance Company

8) Altria Client Services, Inc.

9) American Financial Services Association (AFSA)

10) American Seniors Housing Association

11) American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

12) American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

13) Anduril

14) Biogen

15) BlackLine, Inc.

16) Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

17) Broward County, FL

18) Carbon Solutions Group

19) Cargo Airline Association

20) CCC Information Services

21) Central Florida Expressway Authority

22) CGI Federal, Inc.

23) Charlotte County, FL

24) City of Gresham

25) City of Manteca, CA

26) City of Pismo Beach, CA

27) City of Roseville

28) City of Santa Maria, CA

29) City of Visalia, CA

30) City of Wichita, KS

31) College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)

32) Comcast Corporation

33) Conduent, Inc. and its Affiliates

34) Continuing Medical Education Coalition

35) Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

36) Danbury Mission Technologies, LLC

37) Del Norte County, CA

38) Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)

39) eBay, Inc.

40) Encore Capital Group

41) Environmental Working Group

42) Equifax Inc.

43) Exelixis

44) FedEx Corporation

45) Financial Services Institute

46) Florida Inland Navigation District

47) Fluor Corporation

48) ForeScout Technologies, Inc.

49) General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems, LLC

50) General Atomics, Electromagnetic Systems, Inc.

51) Geost, Inc.

52) Glaukos Corporation

53) GlaxoSmithKline LLC

54) Harmony Biosciences

55) Horizon Therapeutics USA, Inc. (formerly known as Horizon Pharma USA, Inc)

56) Huntington's Disease Society of America

57) Imprivata, Inc.

58) InComm Holdings, Inc.

59) Institute for Gene Therapies

60) InterDigital, Inc.

61) International Packaged Ice Association

62) Jackson National Life Insurance Company

63) JM Family Enterprises, Inc

64) JTR Strategies on behalf of Jetblue Airways Corporation

65) Kentucky Community and Technical College System

66) KIA Motors Corporation

67) Los Angeles County, Office of Education

68) Marion County, FL

69) Martin County, FL

70) McAllister & Quinn on behalf of Villanova University

71) Medical Device Manufacturers Association

72) Medline Industries, Inc.

73) Melbourne Airport Authority

74) MetaBank

75) Monroe County, FL

76) Mortgage Bankers Association

77) National Association for the Employment of People Who Are Blind (NAEPB)

78) National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies

79) National Council for Behavioral Health

80) National Football League

81) National Home Infusion Association

82) National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.

83) North Texas Commission

84) Novartis Corporation

85) NW Natural

86) OneMain Financial Group, LLC

87) Ounce of Prevention Fund

88) Palm Beach County, FL

89) Park Board of Trustees of the City of Galveston, TX

90) Partnership for Part D Access (informal coalition)

91) PayPal

92) PIPE-Partnership for Infrastructure Project Excellence (informal coalition)

93) Professional Compounding Centers of America

94) Prudential Financial, Inc.

95) Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA)

96) Raytheon Technologies Corporation (formerly United Technologies Corporation)

97) Republic Airlines, Inc.

98) Robinhood

99) San Bernardino City Unified School District

100) Sanofi US Services Inc.

101) Sedgwick County, KS

102) Small Business Investor Alliance (SBIA)

103) Solve ME/CFS Initiative

104) St. Lucie County, FL

105) T-Mobile USA, Inc.

106) Telehealth Access for Behavioral Health

107) TerSera Therapeutics

108) Texas Association of Business

109) The Biosimilars Forum

110) The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

111) Tripadvisor LLC

112) Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas

113) University of Tennessee

114) Village of Islamorada, FL

115) Village of Key Biscayne, FL

116) Vocera Communications

117) West Coast Inland Navigation District

118) Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc.

  • 800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 800WashingtonDC20002

Clients:

KATHRYN LAVRIHA

(Virginia)

KATHRYN LAVRIHA

(Connecticut)
  • 800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 800WashingtonDC20002

Clients:
  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

KARA NAYDYHOR

(Iowa)
  • 913-553-7013

  • 450 Water StreetCambridgeMA02141

KATIE OPPENHEIM

(Federal)
  • 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NWSUITE 500WASHINGTONDC20004

AMY REDL

(Federal)
  • 1455 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NWSUITE 500WASHINGTONDC20004

JOSEPH SHAKER

(Rhode Island)
Clients:

STEPHANIE SIMPSON

(Texas)
  • (512)6389316

  • 55 Corporate DriveSuite 262BridgewaterNJ08807-7870

MARCUS SMITH

(Nebraska)
  • (617) 682-2504

  • 100 Morris StreetMorristownNJ07960

MARCUS SMITH

(Kansas)

MARCUS SMITH

(Iowa)
  • 100 Morris StreetMorristownNJ07960

  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

TANISHA SULLIVAN

(Massachusetts)
  • 908-246-9434

  • 450 Water StreetCambridgeMA02142

DOMINIQUE WALES

(Missouri)
  • (502) 494-3186

  • 4440 Crittenden Drive#21113LouisvilleKY40221

BRIDGETT WRIGHT

(Oklahoma)
  • (734) 957-6169

  • 55 CORPORATE DRIVEBRIDGEWATERNJ70534

BRIDGETT WRIGHT

(Louisiana)
  • 734-957-6169

  • 55 CORPORATE DRIVEBRIDGEWATERNew Jersey08807

  • 2028984733

  • 1212 New York Avenue, NWSuite 750WashingtonDC20005

Clients: