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The Lobbying Firm That Put Its Employees Inside the Venn Diagram
Venn Strategies sells access, policy fluency and persuasion. Then its founder made an unusually literal bet on alignment: she gave the people doing the work a stake in the firm.
The Thirty-Person Firm That Learned to Read Albany's Weather
Ostroff Associates built a top-five New York lobbying practice by treating politics less like theater and more like weather: watch every front, know the terrain, and tell clients when to move.
Alex Brill
Alex Brill is a Washington economist who turns tax code arcana into arguments lawmakers actually use. He is the founder and CEO of Matrix Global Advisors, a boutique economic consulting firm, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before going independent he was policy director and chief economist of the House Ways and Means Committee and served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He edits and writes books on tax policy, testifies before Congress, and works the seam between tax, health care, and fiscal policy.
Gordon Gray
Gordon Gray is a Washington economic policy hand who turned a decade of budget-table fluency into his own shop. He launched the nonpartisan Pinpoint Policy Institute as its executive director after more than ten years as vice president for economic policy at the American Action Forum. A veteran of Senate offices and two presidential-cycle campaigns, he translates federal budgets, tax law, and macroeconomic forecasts into testimony before Congress and commentary across The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, NPR, and Fox Business.