THE ROSE COMPANY, LLC

The Rose Company is a business services firm that offers policy & political, marketing, and manangement support. 

April 2005 – Present

Founder & Principal; Washington, DC

  • Founded and manages a small business services firm
  • Builds and coordinates diverse, distributed teams to accomplish clients’ varied objectives
  • Employs data- and research-driven strategies to accomplish client’s goals
  • Authors and designs all materials: one pagers and White Papers, tweets and testimony

THE RUSS REID COMPANY

Russ Reid was a boutique governmental relations firm that specialized in appropriations earmarks.

January 2004 to April 2005

Vice President; Washington, DC

  • Led small team to win earmarks for public and private organizations
  • Helped to expand firms’ work into policy and regulatory areas

MANATT PHELPS AND PHILLIPS, LLP

Manatt is a multi-national law firm with a wide variety of practice areas.

January 2000 to December 2003

Director, Government Relations; Washington, DC

  • Lobbied on behalf of energy, natural resources, and other clients on energy, tax, land, and other policy areas
  • Designed and led the successful effort to resurrect a 130-mile, $400 million water conduit in rural Colorado to address federal water quality standards after a nearly 40-year lapse since its original authorization.

CONGRESSWOMAN HEATHER WILSON (New Mexico)

August 1998 to December 1999

Legislative Director; Washington, DC

  • Led team of five legislative aides
  • Oversaw legislative portfolio of active member of House Energy and Commerce Committee

CONGRESSMAN DAN SCHAEFER (Colorado)

June 1996 to July 1998

Press Secretary, Legislative Assistant; Washington, DC

  • Represented Chairman of House Subcommittee on Energy and Policy before national, local, and trade press
  • Broad portfolio of legislative responsibilities