Introduction

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.

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

Clients

1) Action Now Initiative, LLC

2) American Consumer Credit Advocates

3) ATL Airport CIDs- Airport West CID, Airport South CID

4) Attorney's Title Guaranty Fund, Inc.

5) Block Inc

6) Botanical Sciences, LLC

7) Castlestone, LLC

8) Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

9) Cintra US Services LLC

10) Clayton County

11) CleanSpark Inc.

12) Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Hall Authority

13) CoinFlip

14) Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

15) CVS Health and Affiliated Entities

16) Dewberry Engineers, Inc.

17) DLRdmv, LLC

18) Dougherty County Commission

19) Earth Funeral Group

20) Ed Dovin

21) Encompass Health

22) Envolve Communities

23) Equifax

24) Erlanger Health

25) Gainwell Holding Corp.

26) Georgia Athletic Trainers Association, Inc

27) Georgia Automobile Dealers Association

28) Georgia Beer Wholesalers Association

29) Georgia Golf Course Superintendents Association

30) Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

31) Georgia Hospital Association

32) Georgia OBGyn Society

33) Georgia Pest Control Association

34) Georgia Power Company

35) Georgia Recyclers Association

36) Georgia Restaurant Association

37) Georgia Senior Living Association, Inc.

38) Georgia Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association

39) GeorgiaLink Public Affairs Group

40) Hemp Beverage Alliance

41) Intuitive

42) KNOWiNK

43) Koch Government Affairs, LLC

44) Liberty Vote

45) Molina Healthcare

46) Municipal Development Services LLC

47) Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

48) Pace Center for Girls

49) Pediatrix

50) Phytest

51) Ponya Therapeutics

52) ProCom

53) Pull-A-Part

54) RevaTerra Inc

55) Rise Neurorehab

56) Safety Systems Management, LLC

57) Sanofi US

58) SCI Management Corporation

59) Southeast Propane Alliance, INC

60) Southern Company Gas

61) Specialty Equipment Market Association

62) StormQuant

63) Susan G. Komen

64) The Georgia Society of CPAs

65) Trinity Capital WW, LLC

66) United Gaming LLC

67) UPS

68) Warner Bros. Discovery

Biography

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.

Last Updated: February 21, 2026