A Guide to the Trump Administration

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A Guide to the
Trump Administration
November 2016

Introduction and Outline
This document provides a first look at the people and players behind the
most unlikely presidential campaign in American history. For each person
mentioned here, we have included a bio, a photo, and representative in-
stitutions and organizations affiliated with that person, so that the reader
may better understand the relationships that influence the people who in
turn are influencing President Trump.
Like the Trump business organization, the Trump campaign is an opaque
web of interlocking relationships. While we have endeavored to make
as a thorough a search as possible, with material available in the public
record, any such record is bound to be incomplete.
The information in this document is organized as follows:
The Trump Family
Power Players: Persons of Accomplishment Who Joined
the Trump Inner Circle Early, and Will No Doubt Have
Considerable Influence Over His Administration
The Trump for President Finance Committee: From Which
President Trump is expected to draw his Ambassadors and
Economic Advisors
Communications and Messaging
Domestic and Foreign Policy Advisors
Appendix: Global Business Relationships: Publicly Disclosed
Business Ties Donald Trump has to hotels, real estate and
other investments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East
Appendix: Members of the Trump Transition Team
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The Trump Family
Melania Trump
Melania Knauss Trump is the third wife of Donald Trump and the
next First Lady of the United States. A fashion model from Slove-
nia, she married Trump in 2005 and they have one son, Barron.
Melania played a limited role in her husband’s campaign, delivering
a speech at the Republican National Convention that included lines
from a speech by First Lady Michelle Obama. In the final weeks of
the presidential campaign, Melania made more public appearanc-
es, including a major address where she pledges to make cyber-
bullying a major cause as First Lady.
Affiliations: Charitable support to Martha Graham Dance Company, the
Police Athletic League, Boys Club of New York.
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump is the eldest daughter and second child of Donald
Trump and his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova Trump, a Czech model.
Ivanka is Executive Vice President of Acquisitions and Develop-
ment at the Trump Organization, where she spearheaded the
development of the new Trump International Hotel in the Old
Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.C. A past personal friend of
Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka maintains a lifestyle blog for young female
professionals and is the proprietor of Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry,
with franchises in Canada, Puerto Rico, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates. Ivanka has been a policy advisor to
Donald Trump, and is credited with developing his child care tax
relief plan.
Affiliations: Wharton Club of New York, 100 Women in Hedge Funds, The
Chapin School
Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner is Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and the husband of
Ivanka Trump. He has been an indispensable advisor on all facets
of the Trump campaign, and is believed to have played a role in the
removal of both Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort as prior
campaign managers. Kushner is the publisher of the New York
Observer, and is widely credited as the author of Trump’s policy
speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Affiliations: Observer Media Group, Kushner Properties

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Donald Trump, Jr.
Donald Trump Jr. is the eldest son of Donald Trump and his
first wife, Ivana Zelnickova Trump, a Czech model. Don Jr.,
as he is called, is an Executive Vice President at The Trump
Organization, and has led the development of such projects
as Trump Place at West Side Yards and properties in Chi-
cago, Las Vegas, Scotland, and India. Don Jr. is rumored to
have political ambitions of his own, and delivered a well-re-
ceived speech at the Republican National Convention.
Affiliations: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, The Hill
School, The Trump Organization
Eric Trump
Eric Trump is the second son and third child of Donald
Trump and his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova Trump, a Czech
model. Eric is Executive Vice President for Development and
Acquisitions of The Trump Organization, where he oversees
all Trump golf properties and the Trump Winery in Charlot-
tesville, Virginia. In 2006, he founded the Eric Trump Foun-
dation, which raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital.
Affiliations: St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Tiffany Trump
Tiffany Trump is the only child of Donald Trump and his sec-
ond wife, Marla Maples. She was raised by her mother in Cal-
ifornia, attended the Viewpoint School in Calabasas, Califor-
nia. She is a 2016 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Power Players
Mike Pence
Vice President-Elect; Governor of Indiana
Mike Pence was elected as the governor of Indiana in 2012.
Prior to serving as governor, he was a six-term Indiana
congressman. He has been a proponent of big tax cuts and
last year drew national attention for signing the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act that critics said allowed business-
es to discriminate against same-sex couples. Activist groups
and some businesses threatened to boycott the state, until
Pence signed a “clarification” to the bill that made it clear
the bill could not be used as an excuse for discrimination.
Pence is a devout evangelical Christian who regularly
speaks about his faith; describing himself as “a Christian, a
conservative and a Republican, in that order.” He has tak-
en a hardline stance against Planned Parenthood. A Pence
amendment to defund Planned Parenthood passed the
House in 2011. As governor, he signed a bill into law that
banned abortions for reasons of genetic anomaly and creat-
ed a new requirement to bury or cremate all fetal remains.
Personally, Pence graduated from Hanover College in Ha-
nover Indiana in 1981 and received a law degree from the
Indiana University McKinney School of Law in 1986. He and
his wife, Karen, have a son and two daughters.
Affiliations: Indiana Policy Review Foundation, Ted Cruz (Pence backed
Cruz in the primaries), Paul Ryan (Ryan describes Pence as a “personal
friend”), Koch Brothers
Reince Priebus
Chief of Staff
Reince Priebus has served as Chairman of the Republican
National Committee since 2011. Previously, he served as
RNC General Counsel from 2009 to 2011 and former Chair-
man of the Republican Party of Wisconsin from 2007 to
2009. As one of the top Republican strategists in Wiscon-
sin, Priebus has a long professional relationship with Speak-
er Paul Ryan.
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National Committee, and began repairing relationships
with major Republican donors. Following President Barack
Obama’s 2012 re-election, Priebus convened the Growth
and Opportunity Project to review the Republican Party’s
poor showing with young voters, women, and Hispanics.
Priebus increased outreach to these groups.
During the 2016 campaign, President-elect Trump referred
to Priebus as “Mr. Switzerland” for his studious neutrali-
ty during the Republican primary. Priebus engineered the
drafting of a loyalty pledge signed by every Republican
presidential candidate, a move which ultimately foreclosed
a potential independent run by Trump and unified nearly
every Republican candidate behind the ultimate nominee.
After the Republican National Convention, Priebus told Wil-
liam J. Bennett for a profile in Politico Magazine that ““The
job of being chairman entails racking up victories or killing
bad ideas that no one will ever know about, herding cats,
taking complaints, and keeping your head down and doing
the fundamentals of the ground game and fundraising. But I
love it and it’s what I’ve done for most of my life.”
Priebus began his career as a lawyer with Michael Best &
Friedrich LLP in Wisconsin, where he became partner in
2006. He is married to Sally Priebus and has two children.
Affiliations: Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Tea Party, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Steve Bannon
Chief Strategist and Senior Advisor
Bannon is the former executive chairman of Breitbart
News LLC, the parent company of conservative news and
opinion network Breitbart News, where he made signifi-
cant efforts to grow the outlet’s readership. Bannon is also
co-founder and executive chairman of the Government
Accountability Institute.
Bannon has been a identified as a leader in the “alt-right”
movement, and has described Breitbart News as “the plat-
form of the alt-right.” Former Breitbart employees, includ-
ing former Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro, have described
Bannon’s role with the alt-right as follows: “Breitbart has
become the alt-right go-to website… pushing white eth-
no-nationalism as a legitimate response to political correct-
ness, and the comment section turning into a cesspool for
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Bannon as “a vindictive, nasty figure, infamous for verbally
abusing supposed friends and threatening enemies.”
Bannon previously worked at Goldman Sachs. He was in-
volved in the financing and production of several films.
He is also a former officer of the U.S. Navy. Bannon joined
the Trump campaign in August 2016 as the chief executive
officer. Bannon has been described as having a “desire to
destroy the left,” as well as reform the conservative base.
Affiliations: Breitbart.com; Donald Trump; Government Accountability Institute
Newt Gingrich
Former Republican Speaker of the House
Gingrich was the Republican Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives from 1995 to 1999. He sought the Republican nomi-
nation for President in 2012.
He is chairman of the Gingrich Group, a communications and
consulting firm that specializes in transformational change, with
offices in Atlanta and Washington. He serves as general chair-
man of American Solutions for Winning the Future (www.amer-
icansolutions.com), is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. and is an honorary
chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance. Gingrich was a news
and political analyst for the Fox News Channel, until speculation
arose that he was on the shortlist for Trump’s Vice President.
Gingrich was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served
the 6th District of Georgia for twenty years. He gained prom-
inence when he and 77 other House members brought ethics
charges against Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright. He also
with his fellow minority Republicans drafted the Contract with
America, which included comprehensive government reform
package that concentrated on major policy changes such as
tax cuts, tort reform, social security reform, welfare reform and
term limits. This contract is widely credited with the 1994 Re-
publican sweep.
In 1995, he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Represen-
tatives, where he served until 1999. He helped to orchestrate
two federal government shutdowns between 1995 and 1996. In
1997, he was the first speaker of the House to be punished by
the House for ethics violations.
Gingrich is a health advocate. His latest advocacy efforts have
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He received his bachelor’s degree from Emory University and
master’s and doctorate in Modern European History from
Tulane University . Before his election to Congress, he taught
history and environmental studies at West Georgia College for
eight years.
He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista. The Gingrich family
includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchil-
dren. Callista was a House Representative staff member en-
gaging in a six-year affair with Gingrich when he left office.
Connections: Joseph Gaylord, Rick Tyler (Renewing American Leadership)
Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor of NYC
Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York City between 1993
and 2001 and is credited with helping to clean up the city;
the overall crime rate fell 57% and the murder rate fell 65%.
He gained national attention in 2001 and for his response to
9/11. Prior to serving as mayor, Giuliani held various positions
within the Department of Justice.
In 1970, Giuliani joined the office of the U.S. Attorney. At age
29, he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and rose to
serve as executive U.S. Attorney. In 1975, Giuliani was re-
cruited to Washington, D.C., where he was named Associate
Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to the Deputy
Attorney General. From 1977 to 1981, Giuliani returned to
New York to practice law at Patterson, Belknap, Webb and
Tyler.
In 1981, Giuliani was named Associate Attorney General,
the third highest position in the Department of Justice. As
Associate Attorney General, Giuliani supervised all of the
US Attorney Offices’ Federal law enforcement agencies, the
Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and
the U.S. Marshals.
In 1983, Giuliani was appointed U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, where he spearheaded the
effort to jail drug dealers, fight organized crime, break
the web of corruption in government, and prosecute
white-collar criminals.
Giuliani was first elected as mayor in 1993. He was the “rule
of law” candidate and is credited with cleaning up the city.
New York City’s law enforcement strategies became models
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program, which won the 1996 Innovations in Government
Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. CompStat allows police to statistically monitor
criminal activity on specific street corners as well as citywide,
holding precinct commanders accountable for criminal activ-
ity in their neighborhoods.
As mayor, he also implemented a welfare-to-work initiative in
the country, reduced taxes by $2.5 billion, created the Ad-
ministration for Children’s Services in New York City, eliminat-
ed principal tenure and launched the New York City Charter
School Improvement Fund.
Affiliations: Anthony Carbonetti, Louis Freeh, Fred Siegel
Jeff Sessions
Senator of Alabama
Sessions was elected to the United States Senate in 1997. Before
becoming the Senator of Alabama, Sessions served as the Assis-
tant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama
(1975-1977). He was then nominated by President Reagan in 1981
and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the United States Attor-
ney for Alabama’s Southern District, a position he held for 12 years.
His judicial nomination in 1986 was killed by the Senate Judicia-
ry Committee due to his perceived “gross insensitivity” to racial
issues. Sessions was then elected Alabama Attorney General in
1995.
As a United States Senator, Sessions has focused his energies on
maintaining a strong military, upholding the rule of law, limiting the
role of government, and providing tax relief to stimulate economic
growth and empowering Americans to keep more of their hard-
earned money.
Dubbed a “budget hawk” by the Alabama press, Sen. Sessions
was selected for the 112th and 113th Congresses to serve as the
Ranking Member on the Senate Budget Committee to restrain
the growth of federal spending and make permanent tax cuts
that benefit American families. As a senior member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Sessions is a leading advocate of confirming
federal judges who follow the law and do not legislate from the
bench. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
Sessions is a strong advocate for America’s military.
Sessions also authored the Honoring Every Requirement of Ex-
emplary Service (HEROES) Act, which was signed into law in May
2005. This legislation increased the payment received by the fam-
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increased the maximum servicemen’s life insurance benefit from
$250,000 to $400,000.
Sessions played a leading role in ensuring that the Medicare Pre-
scription Drug law included a rural health care component that
reduced the disparity in Medicare payments. He also joined in
efforts to make funding more equal in the Ryan White CARE Act.
He also authored the Paul Coverdell National Forensic Scienc-
es Improvement Law of 2000, which authorized badly needed
funds for state and local crime labs to reduce the backlog of
ballistics, blood, and DNA tests
Affiliations: McWane Inc - top contributor to campaign, Northrop Grumman - top
contributor to campaign, Center for Immigration Studies
Mike Huckabee
Former Governor of Arkansas
Huckabee was the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996
until 2007, becoming one of the longest serving Governors
in his state’s history, and was only the fourth Republican
elected to any statewide office since Reconstruction, serv-
ing longer than the other three combined. Huckabee had
been Lieutenant Governor for 3 years in July 1996 when
his predecessor was forced to resign due to felony convic-
tions. He was one of the youngest governors in the country
at the time. Huckabee was elected to a full four-year term
as governor in 1998, attracting the largest percentage of
the vote ever received by a Republican gubernatorial nom-
inee in Arkansas, and was re-elected to another four-year
term in November 2002.
As governor, he left a legacy of tax cuts, job creation, the
reconstruction of his state’s road system, K-16 education
reform, and a nationally heralded and duplicated health
initiative that focused on the less expensive approach of
prevention than the costly big-government approach of in-
tervention. His administration fought long-standing corrup-
tion in the state’s political machine, resulting in numerous
indictments and convictions of powerful legislators and
other elected officials.
When running for president this past year, Huckabee re-
mained rather outspoken on foreign policy and social
issues. He spoke out against cap and trade policy and
same-sex marriage. He advocated for immigration reform,
forceful military action against the Islamic State and a
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In his campaign for the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent in 2008, he finished second to John McCain. Governor
Huckabee was the host of the number one rated weekend
show HUCKABEE, on the Fox News Channel, from 2008
until 2015. He also hosted The Huckabee Report – which
was heard three times daily across the nation on almost 600
radio stations from 2009-2015 – and is the New York Times
bestselling author of 12 books. Currently, the Governor is
a contributor on Fox News and one of the nation’s most
sought after conservative speakers.
Affiliations: Pursuing America’s Greatness, Janet Folger, Center for Re-
claiming America
Ben Carson
Former 2016 Republican Primary Candidate
Carson gained national attention in 2011 by criticizing Pres-
ident Obama’s health care policies at the National Prayer
Breakfast. This inspired his run for the Republican nomina-
tion in the 2016 presidential election. Before entering poli-
tics, he was the Director of Pediatric Nuerosurgery at Johns
Hopkins Hospital.
As a pioneer in neurosurgery, Carson’s achievements include
performing the first and only successful separation of Sia-
mese twins joined at the back of the head, pioneering the
first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the
womb, performing the first completely successful separation
of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins, developing new meth-
ods to treat brain-stem tumors and reviving hemispherecto-
my techniques for controlling seizures. Carson became the
youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the country at
age 33. He has received more than 60 honorary doctorate
degrees, dozens of national merit citations, and written over
100 neurosurgical publications. In 2008, he was bestowed
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian
award in the United States.
As a candidate for the Republican nominee, Carson stood
by his life story and Christian base to appeal to social con-
servatives. As a candidate, Carson advocated for school
choice, immigration reform, and a proportional tax system.
Affiliations: Conservative Political Action Conference, Robert F. Dees, Johns
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David Clarke, Jr.
Milwaukee County Sheriff
Clarke Jr. is a law enforcement executive with 38-plus years
of experience. His public service career began in 1978, at the
Milwaukee Police Department (MPD), where he served 24
distinguished years. During his eleven years as a Patrol Officer,
he received meritorious citations for felony arrests. In 1989, he
was promoted to Detective and nine months later was select-
ed for the specialized Homicide Division, where he was part of
a team that investigated more than 400 homicides in a four-
year period. MPD made arrests in more than 80% of homi-
cides, well above the national average of 60%.
Clarke was promoted in 1992, to Lieutenant of Detectives and
was assigned to the Criminal Investigation Bureau as Shift
Commander of the Crimes Against Property Division, the
Violent Crimes Unit, and again to the Homicide Division. In
1996, he was promoted to MPD’s command staff as Captain
of Police, and soon became Commander of the Department’s
First District, located in Milwaukee’s downtown business and
entertainment center.
In 1999, Clarke became Commanding Officer of MPD’s In-
telligence Division which was responsible for producing and
sharing intelligence, and providing dignitary protection in
conjunction with the Secret Service, the Department of State,
and other federal agencies. He served as MPD’s liaison with the
United States Attorney’s Office as coordinator of the CEASE-
FIRE violent crime reduction program, and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Customs Service, Wisconsin Department of
Criminal Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Ser-
vice, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
In November 2002, he was elected to his first four-year term
as Sheriff of Milwaukee County, earning 64% of the vote. Sher-
iff Clarke is now in his fourth term, having been re-elected in
November 2006, 2010, and 2014, increasing his victory mar-
gins to 73%, 74% and 79% respectively.
When speaking at the Republican National Convention, he
received attention for stating “blue lives matter.”
Sheriff Clarke is a frequent guest commentator for national
news services and organizations regarding law enforcement,
Second Amendment, and homeland security issues.
Affiliations: American Jail Association, National Sherriff’s Association, Conser-
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Michael Flynn
Retired United States Army Lieutenant General
Michael Flynn is a Retired United States Army Lieutenant
General. He served as the Head of the Defense Intelligence
Agency from 2012 to 2014. Prior positions include Direc-
tor of Intelligence, International Security Assistance Force;
Director of Intelligence, Joint Staff and Director of Intelli-
gence, United States Central Command. He now serves as
the Chairman and CEO of the Flynn Intel Group, located in
Alexandria, Virginia.
In 2010, Flynn said the U.S. was too focused on insurgent
groups in Iraq and Afghanistan and lacks concentration
on future threats. In February he tweeted, “fear of Mus-
lims is RATIONAL.”
Affiliations: Flynn Intel Group, Russia Today
Mary Fallin
Governor of Oklahoma
In 2010, Mary Copeland Fallin was elected the first
woman governor of Oklahoma. She was reelected in
2014 to her second term by a 15-point margin. Prior to
serving as governor, she served two terms as a state
representative before becoming Oklahoma’s first Re-
publican and first woman lieutenant governor in 1995.
After serving as lieutenant governor for 12 years, Fallin
served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives
from 2007 to 2011.
Since Fallin took office in 2011, Oklahoma has consis-
tently ranked among the top states for job creation
in the nation. She has signed bills to modernize and
streamline government operations, responsibly cut the
income tax, increase compensation for public employ-
ees, and address the state’s fiscally unstable pension
system. The governor has also signed into law historic
lawsuit reform and a complete overhaul of the state’s
workers’ compensation system.
At the governor’s direction, the state has increased
funding for K-12 education by over $154 million, putting
more money into the classroom and helping to boost
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As the former chairman of the National Governors Association, Governor Fal-
lin leads a nation-wide initiative - “America Works: Education and Training for
Tomorrow’s Jobs” - seeking to better align education with twenty-first century
workforce needs.
Affiliations: National Federation of Independent Business, Americans for Tax Reform, Family
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Trump Finance Committee
Steven Mnuchin
Steven Mnuchin is a banker, film producer and political
fundraiser, most recently serving as the Finance Chair-
man of the Trump campaign. He is a co-founder, co-chief
and Chairman of Dune Capital Management LP. Mnuchin
amassed over $40 million working for Goldman Sachs,
and went on to build RatPac-Dune Entertainment. He is
divorced and has three children, and is among Trump’s top
choices for Treasury Secretary.
Affiliations: Goldman Sachs, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Mitt Romney
for President (2012)
Lew Eisenberg
Lew Eisenberg is an American business financer and investor.
He co-founded the private equity firm Granite Capital Inter-
national Group L.P. Eisenberg has spent decades in American
political fundraising circles, and has held several appointments
throughout his career, including the Chairman of the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey. He began his career
on Wall Street, working with Goldman Sachs. He co-founded
Granum Communications and has served as a Senior Advisor
for Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts & Co since 2009.
Affiliations: Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Republican Lead-
ership Council, McCain Victory (2008), Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, Republican Jewish Coalition
Elliott Broidy
Elliott Broidy is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at
Broidy Capital Management; he founded the firm in 1991.
Previously, he was co-founder and Chairman of Markstone
Captital Group LLC. Broidy served as finance committee
Chairman for the Republican National Committee, and also
a member of the Board of Trustees of the Republican Jew-
ish Coalition. In 2006, he donated more than $300,000 to
President George W. Bush – he was then appointed to the
Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Future of Terror-
ism Task Force and the New Technology Task Force. He is
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Affiliations: Hebrew Union College, Board of Governors of the California
– Israel Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council,
American-Israel Friendship League, Israel-American Chamber of Com-
merce, Young President Organization

Woody Johnson
Woody Johnson is an American businessman and philan-
thropist. He is the great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson,
a co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, and is the owner of the
New York Jets. He became involved in charitable organiza-
tions full-time in the 1980s and is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations. He has led efforts on the Hill and at the
National Institute of Health to increase research funding to
health issues such as lupus, diabetes, and other autoimmune
diseases. He began the Alliance for Lupus, a research founda-
tion after his daughter was diagnosed with Lupus. In addition,
Johnson is chairman and chief executive of Johnson Compa-
ny, Inc., a private investment firm founded in 1978.
Affiliations: Alliance for Lupus Research, Council on Foreign Relations, Rob-
ert Wood Johnson Foundation, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Ray Washburne
Ray Washburne is a Dallas-based investor and the vice
chairman of the 2016 Trump Victory Committee. He was for-
merly the RNC finance chairman and stepped down in 2015
to lead Governor Chris Christie’s finance team. He has been
Chief Executive Officer of Charter Holdings since 1990. He is
also the Managing Partner at HP Village Partners Ltd.
Affiliations: Charter Holdings Ltd., HP Village Partners Ltd., M Crowd
Restaurant, Baylor Health Care System Foundation, Entrust Inc., Veritex
Holdings, Colonial Bank, Southern Methodist 21st Century Council, Dallas
Citizens Council
Diane Hendricks
Diane Hendricks is an American businesswoman, film pro-
ducer and philanthropist from Wisconsin. She established
the company ABC Supply with her late husband in 1982. She
currently owns the Hendricks Holding Company and re-
mains the chairperson of ABC Supply.
Hendricks was Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s biggest
donor in 2012 and was a frequent donor to the Freedom
Partners Action Fund. Hendricks has served as an econom-
ic policy advisor to Trump. Hendricks has also produced
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an execution in an Iranian village, An American Carol
(2008) and Snowmen (2010). She has seven children and
17 grandchildren.
Affiliations: WisconsinEye, Rock County 5.0, Stateline Boys & Girls Club,
Hendricks Family Foundation, Freedom Partners Action Fund, Koch
Brothers, Reform American Fund
Ambassador Mel Sembler
Mel Sembler is the Chairman Emeritus of The Sembler
Company. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy from
2001 to 2005 and previously as a U.S. Ambassador to
Australia and Nauru from 1989 to 1993. Sembler is currently
responsible for building The Sembler Company into one
of the nation’s most highly recognized shopping center
developers. From 1986-1987, he served as the spokesman
for the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is
also known in the anti-drug movement and co-founded
STRAIGHT, an adolescent drug treatment program, with
his wife Betty. He has three sons.
Affiliations: The Sembler Company, International Council of Shopping
Centers, American Momentum Bank, American Enterprise Institute,
American-Australian Education Leadership Foundation, Republican
Jewish Coalition, Freedom’s Watch, Moffitt Cancer Center, International
Council of the Tampa Bay Region, Florida Council of 100
Ambassador Ronald Weiser
Ambassador Ronald Weiser founded McKinley Associates,
a national real estate investment firm, in 1968 and served
as its Chair and CEO until 2001, when he was appointed by
President Bush as the Ambassador to the Slovak Repub-
lic. In 2009, he was elected as the Chair of the Michigan
Republican Party, and was appointed as National Finance
Chair of the Republican National Committee in 2011. He
serves on the Boards of numerous nonprofits, including
Artrain USA, UNCF, and the Michigan Theater.
Affiliations: McKinley Associates, Bush for President (2000), Ronald and
Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Weiser Center for Emerg-
ing Democracies, University of Michigan, The Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Foundation, Detroit Institute of Art
Ambassador Hushang Ansary
Ambassador Hushang Ansary is an Iranian-American dip-
lomat, businessman and philanthropist. He served in the
Iranian government for 18 years prior to the Iranian Rev-

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olution including as the Minister of Economic Affairs and
Finance and Iran’s Ambassador to the United States from
1967-1969. He has chaired companies both in both Iran and
the U.S., including the Parman Group, IRI International, and
Stewart & Stevenson LLC. He served as a Presidential Trust-
ee for Trump’s fundraising efforts.
Affiliations: Right to Rise USA, Congressional Leadership Fund, National
Iranian Oil Company, National Oilwell Varco, Inc., International Crisis Group
Andy Puzder
Andy Puzder is currently the Chief Executive of CKE Restau-
rants. Following his time at Washington University School
of Law from 1978-1991, Puzder as an associate at the law
offices of St. Louis Attorney Morris Shenker. He later moved
to the Stolar Partnership before joining CKE as President
and CEO in 2000. He served as a Presidential Trustee for
Trump’s fundraising efforts.
Affiliations: Common Ground Network for Life and Choice, Fidelity Nation-
al Financial, Santa Barbara Restaurant Group, Romney for President, Job
Creators Network
Joe Craft
Joe Craft is an American businessman and philanthropist, and
currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer
of Alliance Resource Partners LP, the third-largest coal pro-
ducer in the eastern United States. He received his law de-
gree from the University of Kentucky. Craft serves as a board
member of the National Mining Association, a director of the
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and was formerly
chairman of the National Coal Council. He served as a Presi-
dential Trustee for Trump’s fundraising efforts.
Affiliations: Restore Our Future, Alliance Resource Partners LP, American
Crossroads, National Mining Association, American Coalition for Clean Coal
Electricity, National Coal Council
C. Michael Kojaian
C. Michael Kojaian has been the Chief Executive Officer at
Grubb & Ellis Realty Advisors Inc. since 2007, and also serves
as President at Kojaian Ventures LLC. In addition, he serves as
the Director of Flagstar Bank and the United States President
Export Council, and has been Independent Director of Arbor
Realty Trust Inc since 2003. He served as a Presidential Trust-
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Affiliations: Grubb & Ellis Realty Advisors Inc., Kojaian Management Cor-
poration, FYI Corporation, Flagstar Bank, United States President Export
Council, JPE Inc., Arbor Realty Trust Inc.
Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross is an American investor known for restructur-
ing failed companies in industries such as steel, coal, tele-
communications, foreign investment and textiles and is the
founder of WL Ross & Co. He serves on the board of advi-
sors of Yale School of Management, and founded the Inter-
national Coal Group. Under President Bill Clinton, he served
on the board of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund, and later
under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as his privatization
advisor. He is an economic advisor to Donald Trump.
Affiliations: Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy
Institute, U.S.-Russia Investment Fund, International Coal Group, Harvard
Business School
E. Llwyd Ecclestone III
E. Llwyd Ecclestone III is the Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of Ecclestone Signature Homes of Palm Beach
LLC, a broker for Aspen Snowmass Sotheby’s International
Realty and a Manager at Four Points Construction LLC. He
was previously President of General Management Services,
a resort real estate company, and has been heavily involved
in the education system of Palm Beach County. In 1974,
he established the Benjamin School in North Palm Beach,
and spearheaded efforts in 1978 to improve the county
school system by chairing the task force that conducted a
comprehensive evaluation of the school district. He was a
Presidential Trustee on for Trump’s fundraising efforts.
Affiliations: Palm Beach County school system, Ecclestone Signature
Homes of Palm Beach LLC, General Management Services, Four Points
Construction LLC, Aspen Snowmass Sotheby’s International Realty
Ambassador Howard Leach
Ambassador Howard Leach is an American business ex-
ecutive and private investor; he currently serves as pres-
ident of Leach Capital, LLC in addition to Foley Timber
& Land Company. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to
France from 2001-2005. He is a Counselor and Honor-
ary Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International
Studies, and served as a Presidential Trustee for Trump’s
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Affiliations: CSIS, American Friends of Versailles, American University of Par-
is, French-American Foundation, French Heritage Society, Lehman Brothers,
Hoover Institution, Leach Capital LLC, Foley Timber & Land Company

Liz Uihlein
Liz Uihlein is the co-founder of Uline Inc. and currently
serves as its president. The company sells shipping and
packaging materials to businesses in North America, and is
entirely family owned. She served as a Presidential Trustee
for Trump’s fundraising efforts, along with her husband, who
is also a major Republican party donor.
Affiliations: Liberty Principles, Senate Conservatives Fund, Uline Inc.
Ambassador Sam Fox
Sam Fox was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the King-
dom of Belgium in 2007. A businessman from St. Louis,
Missouri, Ambassador Fox is founder, Chairman and CEO
of Harbour Group Ltd, a very successful private operat-
ing company that specializes in the acquisition, develop-
ment and operation of high-quality companies. Ambas-
sador Fox has long been extremely active in civic affairs
in St. Louis. He has contributed extensively to cultural,
educational and charitable institutions in the city. He has
also been a strong supporter of Washington University
in St. Louis, serving as a Trustee and as Chairman of the
Campaign for Washington University.
Affiliations: Boy Scouts of America, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Lou-
is Science Center, Saint Louis Zoo, Arts and Education Council of St.
Louis, Forest Park Forever King Baudouin Foundation U.S., Washington
Center, Fox Family Foundation
Steven Feinberg
Steven Feinberg is an American financier, who is active
in hedge fund management and private equity. He is
co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cerberus Cap-
ital Management, L.P. Previously, Feinberg held positions
at Drexel Burnham and Gruntal & Co. as a trader. He is one
of the top economic advisors of Trump’s campaign, and
has consistently been a major Republican donor.
Affiliations: Cerberus Capital Management L.P., Drexel Burnham, Grun-
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John Paulson
John Paulson is an American hedge fund manager and
a billionaire who leads Paulson & Co., a New York-based
investment management firm that he founded in 1994.
He began his career at Boston Consulting Group before
leaving to join Odyssey Partners and Bear Stearns. He is
an economic advisor to Donald Trump.
Affiliations: Boston Consulting Group, Bear Stearns, Odyssey Part-
ners, Bank of America, Citigroup, Sino-Forest Corporation, Paulson
Advantage Fund

Harold Hamm
Harold Hamm is an American entrepreneur involved in
the oil and gas business, and is ranks ranked as the 39th
richest person in the United States and the 98th richest
person in the world. He is involved in the leadership in
Hiland Partners, Hiland Holdings, and is Chairman and
CEO of Continental Resources. He is also a member of
the Global Leadership Council at Concordia College. He
is an economic advisor to Trump, and a potential pick
for Energy Secretary in the next administration.
Affiliations: Restore Our Future, Continental Resources, Hiland Partners
Andy Beal
Andy Beal is an American banker, businessman, investor
and amateur mathematician. Based in Dallas, he accumu-
lated his wealth in the real estate and banking sectors. He
is the founder and chairman of Beal Bank and Beal Bank
USA, in addition to its affiliate companies. He is also known
for the Beal conjecture, a corollary to Fermat’s Last Theo-
rem. He is an economic advisor to Donald Trump.
Affiliations: Beal Bank, Beal Banks USA, Trump Casinos, Beal
Financial Corporation
Tom Barrack
Tom Barrack is an American private equity real estate in-
vestor and founder, chairman and chief executive officer of
Colony Capital. He began his career at the law firm of Her-
bert W. Kalmbach, Richard Nixon’s private lawyer, and went
on to work in Saudi Arabia at the Fluor Corporation. He
served as Deputy Undersecretary of the United States De-

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partment of Interior during the Reagan administration. Later,
Barrack was a principal with the Robert M. Bass Group.
Affiliations: U.S. Department of Interior, University of Southern California,
Accor, Kerner, First Republic Bank, Continental Airlines, Korea First Bank,
Megaworld Properties & Holdings, Fluor Corporation
Stephen Calk
Stephan Calk founded Federal Savings Bank in 2000 and
currently serves as its Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer. He is also Chairman and Founder at Na-
tional Bancorp Holdings. In the past, he served as an advisor
to the Governor of the State of Illinois, the Commissioner of
Banks and Real Estate and the Office of Professional Regu-
lation for the State of Illinois. He is an economic advisor for
Donald Trump.
Affiliations: Chicago Bancorp, JP Morgan, Ohio Savings Bank, Citimort-
gage, Bank of America, General Electric Mortgage Insurance Company,
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Communications and
Messaging
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway is the campaign manager for Donald
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. A longtime pollster
and analyst, Conway specializes in polling data concerning
women and younger voters. Conway was hired to serve as
a senior advisor to Paul Manafort for Trump’s campaign
on July 1, 2016. She previously ran the pro-Ted Cruz 2016
presidential super PAC, Keep the Promise I. Conway is the
founder and president of The Polling Company, Inc./Wom-
an Trend. Woman Trend was created in 1993 and eventu-
ally became a division of The Polling Company. Woman
Trend was aimed at connecting “corporate America with
the female consumer.” The Polling Company was founded
in 1995.
Conway has worked with former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.),
Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.),
Steve King (R-Iowa), and Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). She has
also worked with other politicians, including Sens. Ted
Cruz (R-Texas) and Fred Thompson (R-Ore.) as well as
Mike Pence (R-Ind.). In addition to having practiced law,
Conway also served as a judicial clerk in Washington, D.C.,
and taught law as an adjunct professor at the George
Washington University Law Center. Conway has served on
the board of trustees for the Phillips Foundation, the Clare
Boothe Luce Policy Institute, the National Journalism Cen-
ter, and the American Conservative Union.
Affiliations: The Polling Company, Inc./Woman Trend, Keep the Promise
I, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, National Journalism Center, Ameri-
can Conservative Union
David Bossie
David Bossie is the deputy campaign manager for the
Trump Campaign. Bossie first came into the public spot-
light during the presidency of Bill Clinton, when Bossie
was a “Republican congressional staffer who aggressively
delved into the Clintons’ finances and dealings.” During
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United States House of Representatives Committee on
Government Reform and Oversight, leading “investigations
ranging from the Whitewater land deal to the transfer of du-
al-use technology to China and to foreign fundraising in the
1996 Clinton re-election campaign.”
Bossie became the president of the conservative activist
group Citizens United, a group that “seeks to reassert the
traditional American values of limited government, freedom
of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and
security” and is best known for its successful landmark U.S.
Supreme Court case, Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission, in 2001. In 2015, based on his work with Cit-
izens United and the campaign finance that the Supreme
Court decision ushered in, Politico Magazine ranked Bossie
second on its list of those transforming politics. The article
cited Bossie’s role in shaping “the campaign new normal”
of super PACs and outside spending for the 2016 election
cycle.Bossie is also a political writer for Breitbart News and
has authored several political books. Bossie was elected in
2016 to serve a four-year term as the national committee-
man for the Republican Party of Maryland.
Affiliations: Citizens United, Republican Party of Maryland, Breitbart News
Michael Glassner
Michael Glassner serves as the deputy campaign manager for
Trump’s campaign and is the president of the consulting firm
C&M Transcontinental. In May, Politico reported that his role
had further expanded to include preparation for the Repub-
lican National Convention. The site noted that Glassner was
tasked with putting Trump’s “mark on the party’s conven-
tion.”
Glassner is known for his experience in Jewish voter rela-
tions and for his time as an aide to former Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin. Glassner was a longtime aide to former Sen. Bob Dole
(R-Kan.) and advised former President George W. Bush’s
2000 presidential campaign. He was a top advisor to Sarah
Palin during her vice presidential campaign and served as
the chief of staff of her political action committee after the
election. He has previously worked as chief of staff to Lewis
Eisenberg, chair of the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, and was a staff member at the American Israel Pub-
lic Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Affiliations: C&M Transcontinental, consulting firm, Fmr. Sen. Bob Dole,
Pres. George W. Bush, Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin, SarahPAC, AIPAC

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Hope Hicks
Hope Hicks is the communications director for Donald Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign. Hicks directs official messaging
and press releases for the campaign and is known for keeping a
low profile. She moved to the Trump Organization in 2014 as a
public relations consultant for Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. Previ-
ously, Hicks worked as a public relations consultant with Hiltzik
Strategies, where she first connected with Ivanka Trump.
After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 2010,
Hope Hicks began working for the public relations firm Zeno
Group. She then moved to Hiltzik Strategies in New York City.
While at Hiltzik, according to The Washington Post, Hicks “be-
gan working on accounts related to Trump’s vast real estate,
hospitality and fashion ventures.” She then moved to the Trump
Organization in 2014. Hicks’ role in the campaign has been as a
spokesperson and as a communications director. In July 2015,
The Washington Post reported that she was involved in Trump’s
Twitter account, noting that she sometimes “takes dictation
and sends the words to aides” to then be tweeted.
Affiliations: Zeno Group, Hiltzik Strategies, Trump Organization
Daniel Scavino, Jr.
Daniel Scavino Jr. is the director of social media for Donald
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He founded and directs
Scavino and Associates, a social media management company.
Scavino is in charge of managing the social media messaging
from the Trump campaign, including campaign photos and
videos uploaded to Twitter. A graduate of Plattsburgh State
University, he worked for the Trump Organization’s golf division
in a few capacities, most recently as the executive vice presi-
dent and general manager of Trump National Golf Club.
In 1998, when Scavino graduated, he took a job as a region-
al manager with Coca-Cola, a position he held for five years.
Then, in 2003, Trump bought Briar Hall and made it into
Trump National Golf Club, Scavino became the assistant club-
house manager. Scavino left the Trump golf division in 2013
to become the director of development at the Joe Torre Safe
at Home Foundation. The foundation focuses on domestic
violence and aims at “edu-cating to end the cycle of domestic
violence and save lives.
Affiliations: Scavino and Associates (social media management company), Joe
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A.J. Delgado
A.J. Delgado is a conservative commentator, columnist, at-
torney, author and a communications advisor for the Trump
campaign. Delgado’s writings have been published in The
American Conservative, National Review, The Miami Herald,
The Washington Post, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Fox News,
and various other publications and sites, and she has ap-
peared on multiple radio, online, and cable news shows, in-
cluding Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CNN en Espanol, Yahoo!, Al
Jazeera, and NPR, as well as Spanish language programs, and
is a regular on “Hannity”. She published her first book, Hip To
Be Square: Why It’s Cool To Be A Conservative, in 2012.
Delgado holds a Juris doctor from Harvard Law School.
Following graduation, she practiced law as a litigator in New
York City, representing a variety of Fortune 500 companies.
The child of Cuban immigrants to the United States, Delga-
do is a native Spanish speaker. Her father was a bus driver;
her mother worked in a factory. Trump Senior Communica-
tions Campaign Advisor Jason Miller described Delgado as a
“triple threat” because of her ability to connect with a wide
variety of voters.
Affiliations: Harvard Law School, The American Conservative, National
Review, Breitbart, Fox News Channel
Jessica Ditto
Jessica Ditto serves as the deputy communications direc-
tor for the Trump campaign. She has more than 10 years
of political and public sector communications experience.
Ditto has worked as Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s communica-
tions director for his campaign and transition office, before
being named the governor’s spokeswoman in 2015. She also
worked for former Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher and the
Republican Party of Kentucky. She is a graduate of Asbury
University in Wilmore.
Affiliations: Gov. Matt Bevin, Kentucky, Kentucky Republican Party, Nation-
al Governors Association (through former Gov. Ernie Fletcher)
Susie Wiles
Susie Wiles is a senior advisor for battleground communi-
cations for the Trump campaign. With a professional history
based in government relations, communications and public
affairs, Susie Wiles has more than two decades of political
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who ran Rick Scott’s first gubernatorial campaign in 2010
and handled Trump campaign communications from New
York before shifting to oversee Trump’s Florida campaign.
She serves as a managing partner for the Jacksonville- of-
fice of Ballard Partners.
Wiles was Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s first na-
tional campaign manager and worked to recruit the team
and develop early-stage processes before a departure after
six months. In 2010, Wiles served as campaign manager
for Florida Governor Rick Scott’s successful election. Her
national political experience includes service to President
Ronald Reagan, former Congressman Jack F. Kemp and in-
cludes a senior role at the Department of Labor. Wiles also
previously served as co-chairman of the McCain-Palin 2008
campaign in Duval County and as a Transition Team mem-
ber for former Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
Wiles’ political and communications experience is also
well-rooted in Jacksonville and throughout North Flori-
da. She served in senior level positions in the administra-
tions of the two most recent mayors of Jacksonville. In
the office of former Jacksonville Mayor John Delaney, she
served as Chief of Staff and later as Communications Chief
for Mayor John Peyton until August 2008.
Affiliations: Ballard Partners, Right Coast Strategies, Fmr. Gov. and Amb.
Jon Huntsman, Gov. Rick Scott, Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton, Wiles
Consulting, APCO
Steven Cheung
Steven Cheung, who most recently worked as the direc-
tor of communications and public affairs for the Ultimate
Fighting Championship, was hired as the campaign’s rapid
response director. According to the campaign, Cheung
is responsible for keeping “the campaign up to date on
breaking news and pushing back on false or unbalanced
reporting. Cheung has worked in communications on sev-
eral Senate and gubernatorial campaigns. He also played a
role in the 2008 McCain-Palin presidential campaign.
Affiliations: Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst, Sharron Angle, Steve
Poizner, Sen. John McCain, Fmr. Gov. David Dewhurst

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Michael Abboud
As campaign communications coordinator, Michael Abboud
helped the Trump campaign formulate its daily messaging
strategy and its rapid response to attacks from opponents.
Abboud is a native of Omaha and is a member of one of the
city’s long-standing Republican families. His father is former
State Sen. Chris Abboud, an Omaha attorney. His uncle is
Andy Abboud, a former executive director of the Nebraska
Republican Party who now serves as a top political adviser
to Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner and one of
the GOP’s biggest donors. Michael Abboud graduated from
Creighton Prep in 2008. He then attended Creighton Univer-
sity, graduating with a degree in political science.
Affiliations: Sen. Chris Abboud, Nebraska Republican Party, Las Vegas
Sands Corporation (via Sheldon Adelson), Republican National Committee,
America Rising LLC, Chris Abboud Public Affairs Group
Boris Epshteyn
Boris Epshteyn is an investment banker, entrepreneur, Re-
publican political analyst, opinion columnist, attorney and
a senior advisor for the Trump campaign. Epshteyn sum-
marizes his political views in six words: Small Government,
Low Taxes and National Security.
Epshteyn was a communications aide with the McCain-Pal-
in campaign where he coordinated nationwide communica-
tions and spent time both in the Arlington, Virginia cam-
paign headquarters and in Anchorage, Alaska. While at the
campaign, he was a key part of a rapid response task force
which concentrated on issues related to the Vice Presiden-
tial nominee Sarah Palin. He additionally worked on media
relations, prevention of widespread voter fraud and diverse
legal topics.
Epshteyn writes for the opinion section of US News &
World Report and is a contributor to The Daily Caller. He is
also is a regular guest on CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews, CNBC
and radio programs nationwide providing analysis on top-
ics including political strategy, financial markets, interna-
tional affairs, future elections and party relations.
He is currently a managing director of business and
legal affairs at a boutique investment bank concentrat-
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Mr. Epshteyn graduated from Georgetown University
Law Center and is an attorney licensed in New York and
New Jersey with expertise in finance, bankruptcy and
international law.
Affiliations: TGP Securities Inc., Prime Health Services, Inc., ISA Inter-
nationale, Inc., Strategy International LLC, Sen. John McCain, Fmr. Gov.
Sarah Palin, Georgetown Journal of International Law
Katrina Pierson
Katrina Pierson is the national spokesperson for Donald
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. She initially came into
the national political spotlight as a tea party activist in Tex-
as and subsequently worked for the Tea Party Leadership
Fund PAC, an organization that advocated for Trey Gowdy
to be elected Speaker of the House in 2015. After earning
her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Tex-
as at Dallas in 2006, Katrina Pierson began working in the
healthcare and pharmaceutical industries in Texas. In a 2011
interview, Pierson said she “didn’t get politically involved
until the 2008 elections.” After voting for Barack Obama
(D), she found herself in disagreement with the policies he
implemented as president. Pierson explained, “And that
is when I was able to define my political ideology, which
I’d always had but just didn’t realize it.” Her early political
involvement was focused on developing the Garland Texas
Tea Party and working as an activist in Florida, Iowa, Arizo-
na, Kansas, Missouri, Washington D.C., and Texas.
Affiliations: Ted Cruz, Tea Party Leadership Fund, FreedomWorks for America

Justin McConney
Justin McConney is the director of new media/social me-
dia for the Trump Organization and is the person credit-
ed with “introducing Donald Trump to social media.” His
major campaign development for the 2016 cycle was the
15-second Instagram ads that Trump became known for
using during his presidential campaign. He has worked
with Trump since 2011. Under his direction, Donald Trump’s
Twitter was named one of the most influential accounts
by New York Magazine. McConney has also produced,
directed, and edited terabytes and terabytes of video and
photoshoots for the company. McConney is a graduate of
New York’s School of Visual Arts with a bachelor’s degree
in Film & Video.
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Brad Parscale
Brad Parscale creates web marketing strategies and over-
sees all technical and functional aspects of these strat-
egies for his web design, web marketing, and branding
firm, Giles-Parscale Inc. Originally from Kansas, Parscale
spent five years in California developing CGI software for
the motion picture industry. He moved to Texas in 2004
to establish Parscale Media, a successful web marketing
firm. His 2011 partnership with Jill Giles formed Giles-Par-
scale, Inc. In 2016, he was named Digital Director for the
Trump campaign.
Parscale’s direction and strategy spearheaded the design
and development of the primary website, as well as social
media strategies and implementation, campaign design con-
cepts and messaging, digital media ad campaigns, and mer-
chandise design. The site’s highly-advanced server structure
accommodates millions of visitors without difficulty.
Affiliations: Giles-Parscale, Inc, The Annex Bureau, Parscale Media
Omarosa Manigault
Omarosa Manigault is the African American Outreach Direc-
tor for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Her con-
nections to Trump began when she was named a contestant
on the first season of Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice.
Manigault was hired by Trump’s campaign in July 2016 after
serving as the vice chair of the National Diversity Coalition
for Trump. She was a candidate for the District 1 seat on the
Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in
California. Manigault was defeated in the special primary
election on June 3, 2014.
Manigault held several staff positions in the administration
of President Bill Clinton, including in the Office of Vice Pres-
ident Al Gore, the White House Personnel Office, and in two
different positions with the Department of Commerce be-
fore departing in 2000.
Manigault first began working in support of Donald Trump’s
presidential campaign in early 2016 as the vice chair of the
National Diversity Coalition for Trump, a group that sup-
ports what it sees as Trump’s “solutions that address eco-
nomic disparities, foster job creation, support small busi-
nesses, preserve faith & family principles and strengthen
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with Trump briefly in April 2016, a meeting that Manigault
characterized as evidence that Trump “wants to learn” and
“wants to listen” to the coalition’s ideas.
Affiliations: National Diversity Coalition for Trump, Executive Education
Program/ Executive MBA Program at Howard University School of Busi-
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Domestic Policy Advisors
Stephen Miller
Miller started his career as a press secretary for several Re-
publican Members of Congress before joining Senator Jeff
Sessions in 2009. He Served as Senator Sessions’ commu-
nications director, and played a major role in defeating the
proposed immigration reform bill in 2013. Miller and Sessions
developed the self-described “nation-state populism” that
heavily influenced Donald Trump’s campaign. Miller joined
Trump’s Campaign in January 2016 as a senior policy advisor.
He quickly became a “warm-up” act for Trump at campaign
events. Miller’s own position on immigration and trade has
been echoed in Trump’s speeches, and his brash, straightfor-
ward style of delivery have helped him in writing speeches
for the President-Elect, including his address accepting the
GOP nomination at the Republican National Convention.
Affiliations: Donald Trump; Senator Jeff Sessions; Congressman David Brat;
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sarah Huckabee, daughter of former Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee, joined Trump’s campaign as a senior advis-
er in February 2016, after serving as campaign manager for
her father’s presidential bid. She shifted gears and began
handling communications for coalitions in September.
Huckabee continued to serve as a surrogate for Trump on
several news outlet’s in her new role where she reportedly
worked specifically with faith leaders, gun rights support-
ers and military groups among other voter coalitions. She
has been highly involved in Arkansas politics, managing
several campaigns, including John Boozman’s 2010 sen-
ate race. She worked for Tsamoutales Strategies starting
in 2011 and became president in 2014. She was voted one
of TIME Magazine’s “40 under 40 Rising Stars in American
Politics.” She is now the founder and managing partner of
Second Street Strategies.
Affiliations: Tsamoutales Strategies (Little Rock); Governor Mike Huckabee;
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Myron Ebell
Ebell, the director of the Center for Energy and Environ-
ment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an organiza-
tion funded by the Koch brothers and several oil and gas
companies. He chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which
brings together nonprofit groups that “question global
warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.”
Ebell has been critical of climate change actions through-
out his career.
Most recently, Ebell was selected by President-Elect
Donald Trump to lead the Environmental Protection
Agency transition team.
Affiliations: Competitive Enterprise Institute; Cooler Heads Coalition;
Mike McKenna
McKenna is a long time Republican political strategist and
the President of MWR Strategies, which focuses on ener-
gy related lobbying. He has lobbied for the Dow Chemical
Company, Southern Company, and Koch Companies Public
Sector. McKenna served as the director of policy and ex-
ternal affairs for the Virginia Department of Environmental
Quality under Governor George Allen and was an external
relations specialist for the Energy Department under Pres-
ident George H.W. Bush’s administration. McKenna was
hired by the Trump campaign to lead the Department of
Energy transition team.
Affiliations: American Energy Alliance; Institute for Energy Research
David Bernhardt
Bernhardt is the chair of the Natural Resources Depart-
ment at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. He served as
the director of policy and external affairs for the Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality under Governor
George Allen, and then as the solicitor and chief legal
officer for the department of Interior under the George
H.W. Bush administration after holding other high-level
positions in the department. In September, Bernhardt was
hired to lead the transition team for the Department of
Interior for the Trump campaign.
Affiliations: Brownstein Hayatt Farber Schreck

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Mike Catanzaro
Catanzaro is an energy lobbyist with the firm CGCN, former-
ly with Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielson, and has worked
with a variety of fossil fuel industry clients throughout his
career. Catanzaro served as communications director in
the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and
as a top adviser in the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, fol-
lowed by posts in the White House under President Bush.
He worked under Speaker John Boehner as an energy policy
adviser. Catanzaro was hired as a part of Trump’s energy
transition team.
Affiliations: Noble Energy; Koch Industries; EnCana Oil and Gas; Hallibur-
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Foreign Policy Advisors
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn
Top Trump confidant retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn is a retired
United States Army lieutenant general who served as the
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, commander
of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelli-
gence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and chair of the
Military Intelligence Board from July 24, 2012, to August
2, 2014. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Director of
National Intelligence. He declared the justice system “cor-
rupt” and insisted that he was pushed out of his assign-
ment as director of the DIA because of his views on radical
Islam. Like Trump, Flynn has advocated forging closer ties
with Russia. In interviews with The Washington Post, Flynn
acknowledged being paid to give a speech and attend a
lavish anniversary party for the Kremlin-controlled RT tele-
vision network in Moscow last year, where he was seated
next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He would need a
waiver from Congress to become defense secretary, as the
law requires retired military officers to wait seven years
before becoming the civilian leader of the Pentagon. He is
likely to wind up in some senior administration post, po-
tentially national security adviser.
Affiliations: Defense Intelligence Agency, Russia Today
Bob Corker

Corker is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee,
serving since 2007. Corker, a member of the Republican
Party, is currently the chairman of the United States Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations in the 114th Congress. In
1978, Corker founded a successful construction company,
which he sold in 1990. He ran for the 1994 U.S. Senate elec-
tion in Tennessee, but was defeated by future Senate Ma-
jority Leader Bill Frist in the Republican primary. Appointed
by Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist, Corker served as
Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the State
of Tennessee from 1995 to 1996. He later acquired two of
the largest real estate companies in Chattanooga, Tennes-
see, before being elected the 71st Mayor of Chattanooga in
2000; he served one term as mayor from 2001 to 2005. In
April 2015, Corker’s position on Iraq was that turmoil in the

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Middle East predated Barack Obama’s presidency and that
by invading Iraq in 2003 the U.S. “took a big stick and beat a
hornets’ nest”, unleashing rivalries that might take decades to
resolve. The Tennessee senator has said he’d “strongly con-
sider” serving as secretary of state.
Affiliations: Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
John Bolton
John R. Bolton, a diplomat, and a lawyer, has spent many
years in public service. From August 2005 to December
2006, he served as the U.S. permanent representative to the
United Nations. From 2001 to 2005, he was under secretary
of state for arms control and international security. Bolton is
currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
(AEI), where his area of research is U.S. foreign and national
security policy. He is also senior advisor for Freedom Capital
Investment Management, a Fox News Channel commenta-
tor, and of counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm Kirkland
& Ellis. He was a foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential
candidate Mitt Romney. Bolton is also involved with a num-
ber of politically conservative think tanks and policy insti-
tutes, including the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs (JINSA), the Institute of East-West Dynamics, the
National Rifle Association, the U.S. Commission on Interna-
tional Religious Freedom, the Council for National Policy
(CNP) and the Gatestone Institute, where he serves as the
organization Chairman.
Affiliations: AEI, JINSA, NRA, CNP
Walid Phares
Phares is an American scholar and commentator on global
terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs, and a senior fellow
at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. During his
career, he has testified before committees of the U.S. De-
partments of State, Defense, Justice, Homeland Security,
the U.S. Congress, European Parliament, and U.N. Security
Council. He served as an expert on terrorism and the Mid-
dle East on both Fox News and NBC. Phares was appointed
by Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a for-
eign affairs adviser in 2011, and as such was selected as an
expert on terrorism, counter-terrorism and Middle Eastern
affairs for Trump’s campaign. Phares was a political activ-
ist in Lebanon in the 1980s, which brought criticism to his
2011 appointment to the Romney campaign. Officials at the

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Council on American-Islamic Relations has condemned
Phares – like Trump – for his comments about Muslims.
Phares is a professor at the National Defense University
in Washington.
Affiliations: Foundation for Defense of Democracies; National Defense University
Joseph Schmitz
Schmitz is an attorney and former Pentagon inspector
general. He is considered an “insider” with the right-wing
Newsmax website and senior fellow at the virulently an-
ti-Islam Center for Security Policy. The center’s president
is Frank Gaffney, whose controversial statements about
Muslims — including a charge that President Barack
Obama might be a Muslim — came under new scrutiny
when Ted Cruz named him as a foreign policy adviser. A
Naval Reservist and former partner at the Washington law
firm of Patton Boggs, he co-authored a 2010 report for the
center titled “Shariah: The Threat to America.”
Affiliations: Center for Security Policy, Citizens Equal Rights Alliance
George Papadopoulos
2009 college graduate from DePaul University and an
international energy lawyer, Papadopoulos had previously
advised Ben Carson’s presidential campaign. After com-
pleting his MSc from University College London in 2011, he
started to work as a Research Associate at the conserva-
tive Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., before joining
the London Center of International Law Practice, which
describes itself as dedicated to “peace and development
through international law and dispute resolution,” and
views global issues with a promotion of peace outlook,
which falls into accord with Trump’s non-interventionist
approach. His LinkedIn page also boasts about his role at
the 2012 meeting in Geneva of Model U.N.
Affiliations: Hudson Institute
Carter Page
Page is a former investment banker and global energy
consultant who graduated from the Naval Academy. In dis-
cursive online blog postings about foreign policy Page he
blamed the U.S. for “misguided and provocative actions”
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for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has worked for Mer-
rill Lynch in Moscow. Page has accused the State Depart-
ment’s top official for Ukraine and Russia, Victoria Nuland,
of “fomenting” the 2014 revolution that overthrew Ukraine’s
government. That charge is often lodged by pro-Kremlin
media outlets but is strongly disputed by the Obama ad-
ministration. He also compared the Obama administration’s
official 2015 national security strategy document to an 1850
document on how to manage slaves.
Affiliations: US Navy

Joseph “Keith” Kellogg
Kellogg served for nearly three decades in the Army until
his retirement in 2003 as an Army Lt. Gen. Since then, Kel-
logg has served on a number of boards, including at GTSI,
which primarily provides computer software to government
agencies. From 2005 until 2009, he was an executive vice
president at CACI International, a Virginia-based intelligence
consulting firm that was embroiled in the Abu Ghraib pris-
on scandal prior to his arrival there. Kellogg had little to do
with the company’s cleanup as he was primarily focused
on research and tech systems. A lawsuit brought by prison-
ers against the firm was eventually dismissed. He served as
chief operating officer of the Coalition Provisional Author-
ity in Baghdad, Iraq, from November 2003 through March
2004. The authority was the de facto government installed
by the U.S. after its March 2003 invasion of Iraq, and its per-
formance is often judged as a failure.
Affiliations: US Army, CACI International
Chuck Kubic
Kubic served for nearly 30 years in the Navy, including help-
ing rebuild schools and hospitals in Iraq as commander of
the Naval Construction Division. “I’ve been up here since the
early days of the war, and every day, every week the country
returns to normal,” he told CNN in 2004 as he praised the
U.S. efforts to rebuild the country, a comment that predated
the bloodiest years of sectarian violence in Iraq during the
war and the consistent failure of the U.S. rebuilding efforts.
Kubic now owns his own engineering firm, which has con-
sulted with the U.S. government on diplomatic facilities in
Kabul, Karachi, and Bangkok.
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Bert Mizusawa
Bert Kameaaloha Mizusawa is a major general in the Unit-
ed States Army Reserve. Mizusawa has the most dec-
orated military career of Trump’s advisors. As an Army
Captain serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 1984,
Mizusawa engaged North Korean soldiers in a firefight
while assisting in the escape of a Soviet defector. Mizusa-
wa was subquently awarded the Silver Star for his service
in this incident. He ferried a Soviet defector to safe ground
while under fire from 30 attacking North Korean soldiers,
according to the Pentagon. “He personally led the defec-
tor to safety while under fire and deliberately, at great risk
to himself, exposed himself to the enemy in front of his
own troops,” the Pentagon said. His awards include the Sil-
ver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit,
Bronze Star Medal, and 30 other awards. In 2010, he ran in
a GOP primary for a congressional seat in Virginia. He lost
the five-way primary. He attended West Point and subse-
quently Harvard Law School and graduated with a Juris
Doctor in 1989. He also received a Master of Public Poli-
cy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and
was twice selected as a MacArthur Fellow in International
Security. While at Harvard, he interned with the United
States Attorneys’ Counterdrug Task Force.
Affiliations: US Army, West Point, Harvard

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Appendix:
Trump Business Connections
UNITED STATES
Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C.
Hany Hassan
Design Architect, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
As Director of Beyer Blinder Belle’s Washington D.C. office,
Hassan has worked on significant public architecture
projects that positively shape the nation’s capital. Hassan
was the design architect for the Trump International Hotel,
Washington D.C.
Affiliates: U.S. Department of State, the D.C. Courts, the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, the Capitol
Durwood Dixon
WDG, Architectural Firm
Dixon joined WDG Architecture in 1987 and is currently
responsible for studio operation and management of WDG
projects. He has managed commercial, institutional and
multifamily residential projects, encompassing new con-
struction and renovation. The architectural firm of record
for the Trump International Hotel in D.C. is D.C.- and Dal-
las-based WDG, directed by managing principal Durwood
Dixon, AIA.
Affiliates: The Portals, Reston Executive Center
Betsy Hughes
Associate at Hirsch Bedner Associates, Interior Design
Betsy Hughes brings her 15-year passion and knowledge
of hospitality interior design as well as her incredibly de-
tailed project management skills to the HBA table. She has
worked on complex renovation and new construction hotels
in the United States, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia.
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and Lounge. The design was a 2001 Hospitality Design Gold
Key Finalist.’ Hughes is in charge of interior design for the
Affiliates: Ian Carr
Trump International Hotel, Waikiki
Scott Glass
Principal, Guerin Glass Architects
Founding Principal Scott Glass has been involved in the
design and building professions on multiple levels from an
early age. Prior to forming Guerin Glass Architects, he had
been working at Rafael Vinoly Architects as the project lead
on the expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Glass
was a founding partner at BDDW, Inc., a design, manufac-
turing and retail firm focused on highly crafted installations
and furniture. Previously, he worked at Rogers Marvel Archi-
tects - where he was project architect for a number of intri-
cately designed residential and institutional projects. Guerin
Glass Architects is a design-centered, architecture, interior
design, and planning firm.
Affiliates: Brenden Guerin
Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago
Adrian Smith
Architect
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect who has designed
many buildings, including the world’s tallest structure, Burj
Khalifa in Dubai, as well as the building projected to surpass
it, Jeddah Tower, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prior to starting
Adrian Smith + Gordon + Gill Architecture, Smith was a Design
Partner at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
(SOM) from 1980 to 2003 and a Consulting Design Partner
from 2003 to 2006. He was the lead architect of some of the
world’s most recognizable buildings including Trump Inter-
national Hotel & Tower in Chicago, Illinois; Jin Mao Tower in
Shanghai, China and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing, China.
Affiliates: Adrian Smith + Gordon + Gill Architecture, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago
Gordon Paris
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hollinger International
Previously, Paris served as managing director and head
of the Media and Telecommunications Group at Berenson
& Company from 2002 through 2007. Additionally, Paris
served as president and chief executive officer of Sun-Times
Media Group Inc. (formerly Hollinger International Inc.)
from 2003 to 2006.
Sun-Times Media Group is a Chicago-based newspaper
publisher. Sun-Times Media Group was originally founded
in 1986 under the name American Publishing Company, as
a holding company for Hollinger Inc.’s American properties.
The Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago occupies
the site vacated by the Chicago Sun-Times. On October 16,
2004, Donald Trump and Hollinger International, the parent
company of the Chicago Sun-Times, completed the $73 mil-
lion sale of the former home of the newspaper a week after
it relocated. On October 28, 2004, Trump held a ceremony
to begin the demolition of the former Sun-Times Building.
Affiliates: David Radler, John Cruickshank, The Daily Telegraph, The Jeru-
salem Post, Conrad Black
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas
Phil Ruffin
Business Partner
Phillip Gene “Phil” Ruffin is an American businessman. His
business interests lie largely in casinos, greyhound racing
tracks, oil production, convenience stores, and real estate.
Ruffin lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In April 2002, Ruffin announced that he had partnered with
Donald Trump to build Trump Tower Las Vegas, a $300
million 60-story condominium tower with 300 units and the
possibility of a casino, to be constructed on Fashion Show
Drive, near Ruffin’s New Frontier Hotel and Casino. Trump
had initially approached Ruffin two years earlier about devel-
oping a property on or near the Las Vegas Strip.
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Joel Bergman
Architect, Bergman, Walls & Associates
Joel Bergman (August 20, 1936 – August 24, 2016) was an
American architect who designed several landmark casi-
nos. In 1978, he went to work exclusively for Steve Wynn
through the firm Atlandia Design. Together they played an
important role in transforming the Las Vegas strip from a
low-rise strip to the modern theme-oriented casino with
high rise buildings. In 1994, Bergman and Scott Walls, who
had also worked for Wynn, started their own firm which
was responsible for constructing the Trump International
Hotel Las Vegas in 2008.
Affiliates: MGM Grand Las Vegas, Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas, Scott Walls
Craig W. Shaw
President & CEO, Tutor Perini Building Group
Craig W. Shaw has served as executive vice president and
chief executive officer of the Building Group since May
2013. Since May 2007, Shaw has also served as president
and chief executive officer of Tutor Perini Building Corp.,
one of the business units within the Building Group. Prior
to that, he served in various project and executive man-
agement positions, including president, at Perini Building
Company since joining the Company in 1978. Trump Inter-
national Hotel Las Vegas was designed by Bergman, Walls
& Associates and built by Perini Building Company.
Affiliates: Pat Hubbs, Roy Anderson Corp, Rudolph and Sletten
Trump International Hotel & Tower New York
Philip Johnson
Architect
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005)
was an influential American architect. He is especially
known for his postmodern work from the 1980s, as well
as his collaborations with John Burgee. Between 1995 and
1997, the building that would become the Trump Interna-
tional Hotel & Tower New York was stripped to its skeleton
and given a new facade designed by Philip Johnson and
Costas Kondylis.
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Trump International Hotel & Tower New York
Costas Kondylis
Architect, Founder of Costas Kondylis and Partners, LLP
Costas Kondylis and Partners, LLP, is an American architec-
tural firm, headquartered in the Manhattan borough of New
York City, New York. Founded by Kondylis, the firm and its
work have been featured in several magazines, including
Architectural Digest, The New York Times, The New Yorker,
Town & Country and Vogue. It has also been the subject of
a television documentary.
From The Real Deal: “The early years of architect Costas
Kondylis’ career was defined by frustration, until a chance
meeting changed his life. That meeting was with Donald
Trump and Kondylis would go on to design a number of
Trump’s buildings, including the Trump International Hotel
and Tower at Columbus Circle, several buildings at Trump
Place on the Upper West Side, and the Trump World Tower
near the United Nations.
His work for Trump would put Kondylis’ name on the map
and eventually he became the most prolific architect New
York City has ever seen, designing more than 85 buildings
in the city.”
Affiliates: Philip Johnson
Gary E. Handel
President of Handel Architects
Gary Handel FAIA is the Founding Partner and Managing
Principal of Handel Architects. Since starting the practice in
1994, Handel has overseen its growth to a firm of over 150
architects, designers, and planners around the world. His
designs have been recognized by the American Institute of
Architects, the Urban Land Institute, the Society of Amer-
ican Registered Architects, and the Chicago Athenaeum,
among others. Handel Architects was charged with design-
ing the Trump Hotel in Soho NY.
Affiliates: AIA New York Chapter, Friends of the High Line, Lower East Side
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David Rockwell
Founder and President of Rockwell Group
An American architect and designer who founded Rock-
well Group, a 250-person award winning, cross-disciplinary
architecture and design practice based in New York. He has
an extensive background in different project types, such
as restaurants, hotels, airport terminals, hospitals, museum
exhibits, and Broadway sets. He was the interior designer
for Trump’s hotel in Soho NY.
Affiliates: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), Cooper
Hewitt National Design Museum, New York Restoration Project
Albemarle Estate at Trump Winery
Patricia Kluge
Former owner of Albemarle Estates
John (Owner of Metromedia) and Patricia Kluge built the
45-room mansion, known as Albemarle House, in 1980.
However, bad business bets coupled with the economic
downturn (and a divorce) doomed the Kluges. She default-
ed on loans the banks seized the property. Trump, who had
known the Kluges for years, swooped in and scooped up
the wine estate for $6.2 million.
Affiliates: Rupert Murdoch, Russell Gay, Chelsea Clinton
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, Trump National
Golf Club Philadelphia, Trump National Golf Club
Washington, DC
Tom Fazio
Golf Course Architect
Fazio has designed more than 120 courses and has more
courses ranked among the top 100 in the U.S. than any-
one else in the business. His individual honors include Best
Modern Day Golf Course Architect, which he received from
Golf Digest Magazine three times. In 1995, Fazio became
only the second course architect to receive the highest
recognition awarded by the Golf Course Superintendents
Association of America - The Old Tom Morris Award. No liv-
ing designer has more credits on Golf Digest’s list of Amer-
ica’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses and Golfweek’s collection
of America’s Best. Fazio was the golf course designer for
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster.
Affiliates: Tom Fazio II, ASGCA, Fazio Golf Course Designers

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Trump National Golf Club Charlotte
Greg Norman
Golf Course Designer and entrepreneur
The internationally recognized “Great White Shark” won
more than 90 tournaments worldwide, including two British
Open Championships, and claims the distinction of having
held the No. 1 position in the world rankings for 331 con-
secutive weeks. As one of the most prolific players in the
game’s history, the culmination of an astounding career
came in 2001 when he was inducted into the World Golf
Hall of Fame. In 2009 and 2011, Norman served as the Pres-
idents Cup Captain of the International Team and his strong
influence in the game continues today. Legendary for his
tenacity and pursuit of perfection, Norman has approached
business with the same vigor with which he attacked the
golf course and has parlayed his success into a multi-na-
tional corporation, the Greg Norman Company, which he
currently serves as Chairman & CEO.
Affiliates: FOX Sports, Joe Buck, Paul Azinger
Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck
Tom Fazio II
He was born into a family in which several members are
highly acclaimed golf architects. He has traveled the world
working on projects, first for his father Jim, before starting
his own firm. Fazio has designed and constructed two Trump
National courses in New York and New Jersey, Quail Valley
Golf Club in Vero Beach, Fla., and finished redesigning the
former Haig Course at PGA National Resort and Spa.
Affiliates: Tom Fazio I, Jim Fazio, PGA
Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, Trump National Golf
Club Jupiter
Jack Nicklaus
Retired Professional Golfer, Owner of Nicklaus Designs
A retired American professional golfer, widely regarded as the
greatest golfer of all time. Nicklaus has also taken part in various
off-course activities, including golf course design (two of which
are Trump’s National Golf Clubs), charity work and book writing.
His golf course design company is one of the largest in the world.
Affiliates: Pete Dye, Chris Cochran, Chet Williams, Dave Heatwole

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Trump National Golf Links at Hudson Valley
Brian Freeswick
General Manager
Freeswick became the General Manager of the Trump
National Golf Club in 2009, a position that he carried over
from the Branton Woods Golf Club when it was purchased
by the Trump Organization in 2009.
Affiliates: Eric Trump
Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles
Pete Dye
Golf Course Designer
Paul B. “Pete” Dye is a golf course designer and a mem-
ber of a family of course designers. He is married to fellow
designer and former amateur champion Alice Dye. In 2004,
Dye was the recipient of the PGA Distinguished Service
Award, the highest annual honor of PGA of America, and
was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in Novem-
ber 2008 in the Lifetime Achievement category. He helped
design the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles.
Affiliates: Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, National
Golf Foundation, American Society of Golf Course Architects
Trump National Doral
Gil Hanse
Architect
Gil Hanse is an American golf course architect. Hanse,
along with his business partner, Jim Wagner was selected
to design the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course. Another honor
includes being selected as only the third American architect
to build a golf course in Scotland. Hanse earned a master’s
in landscape architecture from Cornell University and in
1993 founded Hanse Golf Course Design.
Affiliates: Jim Wagner, Geoff Shackelford, U.S. Olympic Board of Directors
Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C.
Arthur Hills
Arthur Hills is an American golf course designer who
achieved a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Mich-
igan State University and a Bachelor of Science from the
University of Michigan. He has designed more than 180 new

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golf courses, including private, resort, upscale, and pub-
lic golf courses around the world. In addition, Hills’s firm,
Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates has been request-
ed to renovate or modify more than 120 courses including
some of the country’s most renowned clubs often in prepa-
ration for major USGA and PGA Championships. Hills cur-
rently serves as chief designer for Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest
and Associates.
Affiliates: Tom Fazio, Steve Forrest, University of Michigan
Trump National Golf Club Westchester, Trump National
Golf Club West Palm Beach
Jim Fazio
Golf Course Designer
Living up to his uncle, George Fazio’s, legacy was a tall
order, but Jim Fazio has made a name for himself designing
award winning courses in the United States, Japan, Spain,
Italy, and the Caribbean Islands. Some of his highlights
include his Hawk’s Nest in Vero Beach being ranked in the
Top 50 courses in 1990 and qualifying as a site for several
U.S. Opens and being chosen by Donald Trump to design
and construct Golf Courses in 2005.
Affiliates: Tom Fazio I, Tom Fazio II, Golf Digest
CANADA
Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver
Joo Kim Tiah
Chief Executive Officer of Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver
and TA Global Berhad
Tiah is the son of Malaysia’s wealthiest tycoon and was
named CEO of his father’s company, TA Global, in Janu-
ary 2016. He also serves on the board of directors of West
Georgia Holdings, Inc., which operates in Vancouver.
Affiliations: Tony Tiah Thee Kian; Datin Alicia Tiah, Managing Director and
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SOUTH AMERICA
Trump Rio De Janeiro Hotel
Stefan Ivanov
Chief Executive Officer of Trump Towers Rio at MRP International
Ivanov is the CEO of Trump Towers Rio, an arm of MRP
International, the London-based real estate developer, in
Brazil. Ivanov is also a co-founder and managing partner
at Challenger Capital Management, a boutique investment
banking firm focused on merger and acquisitions and fi-
nancing transactions for select clients. Ivanov previously
served as the CEO of Citibank in Bulgaria, and was vice
president and a member of the board of directors of the
American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria. He served
as the chief of staff for CEO of Citibank in Brazil, as well
as serving in various positions at Citibank in Brazil, the UK,
South Korea, and Tunisia.
Affiliations: MRP International; Cushman & Wakefield; Citibank; Peter Vic-
tor; Marina Curry
Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama
Arias Serna Saravia
Architecture Firm
One of the most renowned architecture and engineering
firms based out of Colombia. The company was founded
in 1980, and has a wide range of experience in all stages
of real estate development from project management and
sales to design, planning, promotion, and construction.
Roger Khafif
Chairman and President
Khafif serves as the chairman and president of Newland
International Properties, Corp., and as president of K Group
developers, one of the strategic partners of Trump Ocean
Club International Hotel & Tower in Panama City. Mr. Khafif
is a partner in two additional companies located in the
Colon free zone: Kedco Fashion Corp. and Rafkas Imp/Exp.
Previously, Khafif worked as textile engineer in one of the
main textile mills of Guatemala.
Affiliations: Newland International Properties, Corp., K Group devel-
opers; Catalina G. Rodriguez; Carlos Alberto Serna Londono; Eduardo
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EUROPE
Trump International Golf Links, Scotland
Sarah Malone
Executive Vice President of Trump International Golf Links, Scotland
Malone is a Cambridge graduate, who also has a degree
in fine art from Glasgow School of Art. She stepped down
from her role running the Gordon Highlanders’ museum
in Aberdeen in 2009 to become the EVP of Trump’s Golf
Course in Aberdeen. Second in command to Mr. Trump,
Malone works closely with George Sorial, who has overseen
the project from the start.
Affiliates: George Sorial, Jodie Widaseck
Trump International Golf Links, Scotland
George Sorial
Executive Vice President and Counsel - The Trump Organization
Sorial is the executive vice president and counsel for The
Trump Organization and currently resides in West Palm
Beach, Florida. He began working for The Trump Organization
in 2007. Sorial studied classical civilization and psychology at
Boston, where he later obtained MBA and law degrees in the
mid-90’s. Before the Trump Organization, he worked for a law
firm for 10 years on M&A and real-estate deals.
Affiliates: Thomas Pienkos, David Orowitz, Matthew F. Calamari
Trump Turnberry, Scotland
Alan J. Rogers
CEO, LeisureCorp
Alan J. Rogers serves as the chief executive officer of
Leisurecorp LLC and Istithmar Real Estate. Mr. Rogers has
30 years of working experience in the property field in
London, Brussels, Hong Kong, and New York, with special
expertise in Development, Sales, and Marketing. He also
runs his own Investment and Consultancy in New York
and London. He joined Nakheel in March 2006. He served
as the chief executive officer of Douglas Elliman, LLC. He
serves as the chairman of Douglas Elliman, LLC. He served
as a director of Dubai World Corporation. Trump persuad-
ed Leisurecorp, a subsidiary of the Dubai government,
to sell him the South Ayrshire layout, with its legends, its
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of Clyde – and, most pertinently, its guarantee to stage its
fifth Open in the next eight years.
Affiliates: David Collins, David Spencer
Doonbeg Golf Club, County Clare, Ireland
Martin Kelly
Owner of Martin Kelly Plant Hire
Martin Kelly Plant Hire Limited was founded in February
2005. The company’s current directors Louise Kelly and
Martin Kelly has been the director of two other Irish com-
panies between them; one of which is now closed. Martin
Kelly Plant Hire Limited is available for all types of building
and excavation work. Locally owned and operated. Kelly
works for the Trump golf resort and said Trump is very pop-
ular in the village. “Trump is employing a lot of people. He
is a good guy to be honest with you. Trump has done a lot
of good stuff done around here. A great company to work
with. Very sound. You do the job and you get paid. There is
no messing.”
Affiliates: Gordon Deegan, Tommy Tubridy
Doonbeg Golf Club, County Clare, Ireland
Donal Winters
Operations Director, John Paul Construction
Winters joined the John Paul Construction surveying team in
1978 where he was involved in a variety of building and civil
engineering projects. He was appointed as Contracts Man-
ager in 1988 during which time he successfully managed a
variety of high profile projects. Winters joined the Board as
Operations Director in 1999 and remains very much hands on
in his role. John Paul Construction worked with several part-
ners (affiliates below) to complete the £ 37.9m
Affiliates: CCH Architects, Tom McNamara & Partners, Hendrick Ryan &
Associates, Don O’Malley & Partners
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RUSSIA
Aras Agalarov
Founder of Crocus Inter and Crocus
Aras Agalarov is an Azeri businessman, developer, public
figure and author of Russia: Reflections on the Way to the
Market (1998). Born in Baku, he was educated at the Azer-
baijan Polytechnical Institute. He moved with his family to
Moscow in 1998, where he co-founded Crocus International
along side his father-in-law, Iosif Yefgenevich, which spe-
cializes in trade fairs, where he still makes most of his mon-
ey. As of 11/9/16, his net worth is an estimated $1.33 Billion.
Trump made millions when he agreed to bring the Miss
Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013, a deal financed in
part by the development company of Agalarov. Agalarov
is sometimes called the “Trump of Russia” because of his
tendency to put his own name on his buildings. At the time,
Trump mingled with the Russian business elite at a swanky
after-party. “Almost all of the oligarchs were in the room,”
Trump bragged on returning home. Trump received a por-
tion of the $14 million paid by Agalarov and other investors
to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow. Agalarov
said he and Trump signed an agreement to build a Trump
Tower in the heart of Moscow — at least Trump’s fifth at-
tempt at such a venture.
Washington Post: “Since the 1980s, Trump and his family
members have made numerous trips to Moscow in search
of business opportunities, and they have relied on Russian
investors to buy their properties around the world. ‘Rus-
sians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a
lot of our assets,’ Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate
conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the
website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. ‘We see a lot of
money pouring in from Russia.’”
Affiliates: Vladimir Putin, Crocus Group, Miss Universe
Dr. Svetlana B. Felitsyna
Managing Partner at Sojuzpatent
Managing Partner Felitsyna joined Sojuzpatent in 1992 and
is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee with
the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian
Federation. Sojuzpatent is one of the leading companies on
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property rights. Sojuzpatent offers a wide range of services
in all areas of Intellectual Property in the Russian Federa-
tion and internationally, including the CIS countries. Trump
hired the company to file the trademarks in that country
for properties, such as “Trump Tower” in 1996. In the last
decade, he’s also laid legal claim to “Trump,” “Trump Inter-
national Hotel and Tower,” “Trump Home” and “the Trump
crest design” in the country.
Affiliates: Alexey Zalesov, Tamara S. Fomicheva, Dmitry Yu. Ekenin
Felix Sater
Felix Henry Sater is a Russian-born American real estate de-
veloper and managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, a real
estate conglomerate based out of New York City, New York.
Sater has been an advisor to many corporations, including
The Trump Organization, Rixos Hotels and Resorts, Sembol
Construction, Potok (formerly the Mirax Group), and TxOil.
From Washington Post: “The Russian-born businessman had
already done a stint in prison for stabbing a man in the face
with the stem of a margarita glass, and he was now awaiting
sentencing for his role in a Mafia-orchestrated stock fraud
scheme — all the while serving as a government informant on
the mob and mysterious matters of national security.”
Sater proposed that his company, “would build Trump towers
in U.S. cities and across the former Soviet bloc. Sater pitched
it to Trump, who gave Sater’s company rights to explore
projects in Moscow as well as in Florida and New York. “Any-
body can come in and build a tower,” Sater told potential
investors, according to testimony in a 2008 court case. “I can
build a Trump Tower, because of my relationship with Trump.”
Sater’s “Trump card,” as he called it, didn’t work everywhere.
The Moscow deal fell apart. But their relationship continued —
though just how close they were is now in dispute.
Affiliates: Bayrock Group, Tevfik Arif
Dmitry Rybolovlev
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev is a Russian businessman,
investor, and philanthropist. Rybolovlev owned the potash
producer Uralkali and in 2011 became the majority owner
and President of Monaco’s football club AS Monaco.
From CNN Money: “The Maison de L’Amitie is a massive
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foot mansion sits on 6.2 acres -- with 475-feet of sandy
beach facing the Atlantic Ocean. In a 2004 auction, Trump
snapped up the property from Gosman’s Chapter 7 Bank-
ruptcy Estate for $41 million, according to property records.
Four years later, Trump sold the mansion for $95 million.
The official deed on that deal says that Trump Properties
sold the property to County Road Property LLC. But that’s
just a front. The real buyer of the property was Russian bil-
lionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. Rybolovlev admitted it through
a spokesman in 2008, and his real estate agent on the deal
reaffirmed it to CNNMoney.”
Affiliates: County Road Property LLC
ASIA
Trump World in Seoul, South Korea
Young-Sang Kim
CEO & Director of POSCO Daewoo Corporation
Kim is chief executive officer and director at POSCO Dae-
woo Corp. and is on the Board of Directors. Daewoo En-
gineering & Construction, then a builder unit of the larger
Daewoo Group first partnered with Trump in September
1997 to erect the Trump World Tower in Manhattan. Trump
then provided the lot for the South Korean company to
build condominiums. Kim received his undergraduate de-
gree from Seoul National University.
Affiliates: In-Hwan Oh, Gyu-Cheon Yoo, Ho-Young Lee
Trump Real-Estate in Makati, Philippines
Jose E.B. Antonio
Chairman & CEO Century Properties
Antonio is one of the founders and chairman of Centu-
ry and its subsidiaries. He graduated cum laude from San
Beda College, Manila in 1966 with a Bachelor’s Degree in
Commercial Science (major in Marketing) and received
a master’s Degree in Business Management in 1968 from
Ateneo de Manila’s Graduate School of Business. Chairman
Antonio also graduated from Harvard University’s Owner/
President Management Program in 2003. Chairman Anto-
nio served as the Philippines Special Envoy for Trade and
Economics to the People’s Republic of China in 2005 and is
currently the chairman of Century Asia Corporation, Pres-
tige Cars, Inc. and Philtranco Service Enterprises. He is also
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Council Inc. In addition, he serves as the vice chairman of
Penta Pacific Realty Corporation and Subic Air Charter, Inc.
Longtime business partner of Donald Trump, Antonio was
named new envoy to Washington for trade, investment and
economic affairs after Trump was elected President of the
United States.
Affiliates: Robbie Antonio, Philippine-China Business Council Inc.,
Harvard University
Kristina Garcia
Director for Investor Relations Century Properties
Picture N/A
Garcia is the director for Investor Relations of Century
Properties Group, Inc. (CPGI). Before joining the company,
she subsequently headed the Investor Relations divisions
at Alliance Global Group, Inc. and Megaworld Corporation.
Prior to that, Ms. Garcia was with the tax services depart-
ment Isla Lipana & Co./PricewaterhouseCoopers where she
assisted multinational companies set-up operations in the
Philippines and avail of tax incentives.
Affiliates: Alliance Global Group Inc., Price Waterhouse Coopers, Mega-
world Corporation
Trump Golf Courses and Hotels in India
Sagar Chordia
Director Panschshil Realty
Sagar Chordia and his brother, Atul, founded Panchshil
Realty which has built some of Pune city’s most recent
landmarks including JW Marriott Hotel and a World Trade
Center. Atul got started as a property broker and set up
Panchshil in 2002 and his brother joined a year later. The
duo are building a Bulgari Hotel in the Maldives in their first
overseas venture. Sagar is #100 on Forbes “Richest List”.
He has a Bachelor of Arts and Economics from Pune Uni-
versity. Trump partnered with Panchshil Realty on one of his
two ongoing projects under construction in India.
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Kalpesh Menta
Managing Partner Tribeca Developers
Menta is the Founder and Managing Partner of Tribeca. He
has rich exposure to domestic and international real estate
markets, though his background is in private equity and
real estate development. Menta was one of the pioneers of
branded residences in India was responsible for bringing the
Trump Organization into India. Prior to founding Tribeca in
2012, Menta was a director with a Mumbai based real estate
development company where he was responsible for help-
ing transform a family owned development company into a
professional outfit. Prior to that, Menta was Vice President
with the Lehman Brothers Real Estate Private Equity fund
in Mumbai, where he was instrumental in closing some of
the largest transactions in the Indian real estate sector and
managing a portfolio of over $400 million in equity which
was invested in assets valued at more than $2 billion. Prior to
Lehman Brothers, Menta was with The Carlyle Group in New
York City focusing on U.S. Real Estate investments. At Car-
lyle, Menta invested in and managed luxury residential de-
velopment projects worth over $1 billion including one of the
largest luxury development projects on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side covering four city blocks. Menta received his MBA
from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate and a bach-
elor’s degree in Computer Science from The University of
Texas at Austin.
Affiliates: Lehman Brothers Real Estate, The Carlyle Group, University of
Texas at Austin
Trump Hotels in Indonesia
Hary Tanoescoedibjo
PT Media Nusantara Citra (MCN) Group
Tanoescoedibjo has been president, director and founder
of PT MNC Investama, a local conglomerate partnered with
Trump Hotel Collection, since 2009. He holds a Bachelor of
Commerce degree from Carleton University, Canada and Mas-
ter of Business Administration degree from Ottawa University,
Canada. In addition to his active participation as a speaker at
various media events at national and international levels, he
teaches in the post-graduate programs of several universities
in the areas of corporate finance, investment, and manage-
ment strategies. He was listed by Forbes as the 15th richest
people on Indonesia.
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Ivan Casadevall
MNC Vice President of Business Development
Ivan Casadevall is currently based in Jakarta Indonesia and
has devoted 23 years to the hospitality industry. He has spent
most of his time working on business development projects in
South East Asia, particularly Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Before PT MNC Land, he was the General Manager at Pan
Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort and Minor International. He gradu-
ated from The University of Tourism, Girona in Spain.
Affiliates: Bali Hospitality Forum, Travel Daily Media Group, HVS
Syafril Nasution
MNC Corporate Secretary
Mr. Syafril Nasution is a Director at PT MNC Toll Road, Pres-
ident Director at PT Indonesia Transport & Infrastructure
Tbk, Director-Corporate Affairs at PT Rajawali Citra Televisi
Indonesia and a Director at PT Global Mediacom Tbk. He is
on the Board of Directors at PT Media Nusantara Informasi.
Mr. Nasution was previously employed as President Director
by PT MNC Infrastruktur Utama, President Commissioner by
PT Sun Televisi Network, Chairman by Indonesia National
Air Carriers Association, President Director by PT Hikmat
Makna Aksara, and Secretary by PT Media Nusantara Ci-
tra Tbk. He received his undergraduate degree from Asian
Banking Finance & Informatics Institute Perbanas.
Affiliates: Suntv Network, PT Media Nusantara Informasi, Indonesia Air Transport
MIDDLE EAST
Trump Towers, Istanbul, Sisli
Aydin Doğan
Founder of Doğan Holdings
Aydin Doğan is the founder of Doğan Holding. Doğan
Holding is one of the top industry conglomerates in Turkey
operating in the media, trade, energy, insurance and tour-
ism industries. In 2008, Doğan Holdings entered a licensing
partnership with Trump Organization. Doğan developed
Trump Towers Sisli and Istanbul,which is located at the
city’s central business district. During Trump’s campaign,
developers of Trump Towers Istanbul announced that they
were exploring legal options to sever ties with Donald
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Muslims from entering the United States.
“We regret and condemn Trump’s discriminatory remarks.
Such statements bear no value and are products of a mind
that does not understand Islam, a peace religion, at all,”
said Bulent Kural, the manager of Trump shopping mall.
“Our reaction has been directly expressed to the Trump
family. We are reviewing the legal dimension of our relation
with Trump brand.”
Doğan is still a major shareholder of the company. His
daughter Arzuhan Yalçındağ now serves as the chairwoman
of the company.
Affiliates: Arzuhan Yalçındağ, Y. Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı, Soner Gedik
Trump World Golf Club Dubai, UAE
Hussain Sajwani
Founder and Chairman of DAMAC Properties
Hussain Ali Sajwani founded DAMAC Properties in 2002
and serves as the chairman and CEO. Mr. Sajwani serves as
a member of Management Board at Oman United Insurance
Company SAOG, chairman at Al Jazeira Services Co SAOG,
chairman of Al-Ahlia Insurance Company BSC, chairman
of Majan University College and many more. Trump World
Golf Dubai was built by DAMAC Properties. During Trump’s
campaign, Sajwani said, “We made a deal with Trump as an
organization; they know how to run golf courses,” shrugs
Sajwani. “We stay away from politics.”
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Agency Action
Ron Nicol
Nicol oversees the South System of The Boston Consult-
ing Group (BCG)- an area that includes the Dallas office,
which Nicol opened in 1994, and the Miami, Atlanta, and
Houston offices. At BCG, Nicol focuses on telecommunica-
tions and airlines. He specializes in strategy development,
organization transformation and delayering, customer
discovery, merger and acquisition advice, and the develop-
ment of major cost-reduction programs. Previously, Nicol
held senior positions with Babcock and Wilcox and was a
US naval officer.
Affiliations: Duke University, Fuqua School of Business; The Boston Con-
sulting Group; United States Naval Academy
Defense
Joseph “Keith” Kellogg
Kellogg served for nearly three decades in the Army until
his retirement in 2003. Since then, Kellogg has served on a
number of boards, including at GTSI, which primarily pro-
vides computer software to government agencies. From
2005 until 2009, he was an executive vice president at
CACI International, a Virginia-based intelligence consulting
firm. He served as chief operating officer of the Coalition
Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, from November
2003 through March 2004. The authority was the de facto
government installed by the U.S. after its March 2003 inva-
sion of Iraq, and its performance is often judged as a failure.
Affiliations: US Army, CACI International
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Mira Ricardel, Defense
Ricardel is currently a consultant at Federal Budget IQ.
Federal Budget IQ offers government affairs consulting
services. Before joining Federal Budget IQ, she was Vice
President at Boeing in business development. There she
led, developed and oversaw the implementation of growth
strategies. She specializes in network and space systems
and strategic missile and defense systems. Prior to her work
at Boeing, Ricardel worked for the United States Depart-
ment of Defense. From 2003 to 2005, Ricardel was Assis-
tant Secretary of Defense (Acting) for International Secu-
rity Policy. From 2001 to 2003, Ricardel was the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Eurasia.
Affiliations: Freedom House; Boeing; Georgetown, The Fletcher School,
Chris Christie
Michael Meese, VA
Meese is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s
Center for Security Studies. There he teaches about the
Economics of War. He is also the COO of the American
Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, which assists the
American Armed Forces community with insurance, finan-
cial planning, survivor assistance, and other benefits.
In 2013, after 32 years in the Army, he retired from his
position as the Professor and Head of the Department of
Social Sciences at West Point. There he taught economics
and national security courses and led the 70 military and
civilian faculty members in the Department, the Combating
Terrorism Center, and the Office of Economic and Manpow-
er Analysis, who teach political science, economics, and
terrorism-related courses. He has also taught as a Visiting
Professor at Princeton University and as a member of the
National War College Faculty. He is currently a Visiting
Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University
(NDU) Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS).
In addition to teaching, he served in a variety of strategic
political-military positions including deployments to com-
bat zones for over 31 months. In 2010-2011, he deployed
for a full year as the Assistant Chief of Staff for the Inter-
national Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan having
previously served in Iraq as a senior policy advisor for
Commanding Generals on four separate three-month tours,
including developing the “responsible withdrawal” plan in
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surge” campaign plan in early 2007. In Washington, he was
the Executive Director of the Secretary of the Army’s Tran-
sition Team in 2005 and was co-director of the Department
of Defense Panel on Commercialization and Globalization
(the Dawkins Panel) in 1999.
Affiliations: United States Military Academy, National War College, Wood-
row Wilson School at Princeton University; Georgetown
National Security
Lt. General Ron Burgess (Ret.)
Burgess will lead Trump’s transition team for intelligence
matters. Burgess is a retired United States Army Lieutenant
General. His last military assignment was as the 17th Direc-
tor of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Commander of
the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR). Prior to that,
he was Director of the Intelligence Staff in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence. In June 2006, Burgess
was selected by President Bush to serve as acting Principal
Deputy Director of National Intelligence through October
2007; he served in this position again in January - February
of 2009. Starting in 2005, Burgess was the Deputy Director
of National Intelligence for Customer Outcomes until be-
coming Director of Intelligence Staff in 2007.
After officially retiring from the Army in 2012, Burgess
received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service
Medal from Director of National Intelligence James R. Clap-
per, Jr. He also received the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal 1OLC for his service as the DIA Director. In 2012, Lieu-
tenant General Burgess joined Auburn University as Senior
Counsel for National Security Programs, Cyber Programs
and Military Affairs.
Affiliations: U.S. Army; Defense Intelligence Agency; Auburn University;
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Jim Carafano
Carafano is a 25-year Army Veteran and a leading expert in na-
tional security and foreign policy challenges with a master’s and
doctorate from Georgetown University. He is The Heritage Foun-
dation’s Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, the
E. W. Richardson Fellow, and Director of the Kathryn and Shelby
Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. His recent research
has focused on developing the national security required to se-
cure the long-term interests of the United States -- protecting the
public, providing for economic growth and preserving civil liber-
ties. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and
serves as a visiting professor at National Defense University. He
currently sits on the Board of Advisors for Daniel Morgan Acade-
my. He is also the author of the e-book, “Surviving the End”, which
addresses emergency preparedness. He is also the president of a
nonprofit organization, Esprit de Corps, which educates the public
about veteran affairs. In this capacity, he co-produced and co-
wrote the documentary “Veteran Nation,” an official selection of
the 2013 G.I. Film Festival. He also writes a weekly column for The
Washington Examiner.
Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments, a Washington policy institute dedicated
to defense issues. He also previously served as an assistant profes-
sor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and as direc-
tor of military studies at the Army’s Center of Military History. He
taught at Mount Saint Mary College in New York and was a fleet
professor at the U.S. Naval War College.
Connections: Daniel Morgan Academy; Esprit de Corps, The Heritage Foundation;
Georgetown University; National Defense University; The Washington Examiner
Cindy Hayden
Cindy Hayden of tobacco company Altria will be in charge
of the Homeland Security transition. In 2002, Hayden be-
came Chief Minority Counsel to the Administrative Over-
sight Committee of the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee.
In 2004, she travelled to the battleground states to aid the
Republican election efforts. In 2008, she became Director
of Federal Government Relations, Altria Client Services.
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Matthew Freedman
Matthew Freedman is expected to head the National Securi-
ty Council transition team.
A national security and economic development expert,
Freedman has served in ten US government agencies in-
cluding as a civilian Senior Advisor to Defense Intelligence
Agency, US Special Operations Command, US Pacific Fleet,
Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. He
currently serves as CEO of Global Impact, Inc., providing
both the public and private sectors global strategic advi-
sory services and developing and implementing innovative
technology solutions. He has thirty years of experience
leading corporate and business development programs and
projects overseas.
Previously, he served as the White House Transition Director
reporting to Secretary of State Colin Powell for the Agency
for International Development, the Trade and Development
Agency, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Later, he was appointed Deputy to the US Ambassador to
the United Nations, Special Advisor to the Under Secretary
of State for Arms Control and International Security, and
Counselor, Bureau of Verification, Compliance and Imple-
mentation at the State Department. At the Defense Depart-
ment he served as Senior Advisor, Department of the Navy.
He was also appointed to the Advisory Board for Africa of
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Freedman served as Chief of Party for numerous national
and global efforts on behalf of the World Bank, the USG, and
the private sector where he hired and managed in-country
staffs spanning from Russia to the Philippines. He has also
managed numerous international electoral campaigns to
promote the rule of law from South Africa to South Korea.
Affiliations: Global Impact, Defense Intelligence Agency, US Special Opera-
tions Command, US Pacific Fleet, Department of Defense, Department of
Energy, Sec. of State Colin Powell, Agency for International Development,
Trade and Development Agency, Overseas Private Investment Corpora-
tion, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Defense Dept., Dept. of the
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Kevin O’Connor
Kevin O’Connor serves on the Trump transition team as a
national security advisor, specifically focusing on the Jus-
tice Department. He is the Managing Director and General
Counsel for Point72 Asset Management. He joined Point72
from United Technologies Corporation, where he served as
Vice President of Global Ethics & Compliance.
Prior to joining UTC, O’Connor was a partner and chair of the
white collar practice group at the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani.
O’Connor previously served as the United States Attorney
for Connecticut from 2002-2008, and as Associate Attor-
ney General of the United States from 2008-2009. During
his tenure at the Department of Justice, he also served as
Associate Deputy Attorney General, Chief of Staff to the
Attorney General, and chair of the Department’s Intellectual
Property Task Force. He previously worked in the Division
of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commis-
sion, and began his career as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit.
O’Connor received his B.A. from the University of Notre
Dame and his law degree from the University of Connecti-
cut School of Law.
Affiliations: Trinity Health-New England, Securities & Exchange Commission,
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Economic Issues
Bill Walton
William Walton is currently serving on the Trump transition
team as an advisor on economic issues. Walton is the Chair-
man of Rappahannock Ventures LLC, a private equity firm,
and Rush River Entertainment, a feature film production.
He has an extensive background in finance, general man-
agement, private equity, strategic planning, mergers and
acquisitions, entrepreneurship, commercial lending, private
sector educational services and art management. Walton
also served as the Vice President of the Council for National
Policy and a Senior Fellow for Discovery Institute’s Center
on Wealth, Poverty and Morality.
Walton served as chairman of the board and CEO of Allied
Capital Corporation from 1997-2009. Earlier in his career, he
worked as a Managing Director of Butler Capital Corpora-
tion. In addition, he founded two education service provid-
ers, including Language Odyssey and SuccessLab.
After serving in the U.S. Army as a Specialist at the Penta-
gon, Walton received his B.S. from Indiana University and
his MBA from Indian’s Kelley School of Business. He is mar-
ried with two children.
Affiliations: Rappahannock Ventures LLC, Rush River Entertainment, Al-
lied Capital Corporation, Media Research Center, National Gallery of Art,
American Enterprise Institute, Financial Services Roundtable, U.S. Cham-
ber of Commerce, DC Federal City Council, National Venture Capital Asso-
ciation, DC National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, National
Rifle Association, MENSA
David Malpass
David Malpass is serving on the Trump transition team as an
advisor on economic issues, with a focus on the Treasury De-
partment. Malpass is president of Encima Global, an economic
research and consulting firm. He was formerly Bear Stearns’
chief economist.
Malpass is the author of a Current Events column in Forbes
magazine. From 1984-1993, Malpass held senior economic ap-
pointments during the Reagan and Bush administrations. He
served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing Nations,
the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Senior Analyst
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1977-1983, he worked in Portland, Oregon as a Certified Public
Accountant with Arthur Andersen’s systems consulting group.
He received his B.A. from Colorado College and MBA from the
University of Denver. In addition, he studied international eco-
nomics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service,
and speaks Spanish, French, and Russian.
Affiliations: New Mountain Finance Corporation, UBS Funds, the Manhat-
tan Institute, Gary Klinsky Children’s Center, Economic Club of New York,
Bear Stearns, Encima Global
Ray Washburne
Ray Washburne is serving on the Trump transition team as
an economic policy advisor, focusing specifically on com-
merce. He was previously Chairman of the 2016 Trump
Victory Committee during the campaign.
A Dallas-based investor and the vice chairman of the 2016
Trump Victory Committee. He was formerly the RNC fi-
nance chairman, who stepped down in 2015 to lead Gover-
nor Chris Christie’s finance team. He has been Chief Exec-
utive Officer of Charter Holdings since 1990. He is also the
Managing Partner at HP Village Partners Ltd. In addition, he
serves on the board of directors for M Crowd Restaurant,
which he co-founded in 1991, and as a Director of Baylor
Health Care System Foundation.
Affiliations: Charter Holdings Ltd., HP Village Partners Ltd., M Crowd
Restaurant, Baylor Health Care System Foundation, Entrust Inc., Veritex
Holdings, Colonial Bank, Southern Methodist 21-st Century Council, Dallas
Citizens Council
Dan DiMicco
Dan DiMicco is serving as an economic advisor for the
Trump transition team, focusing on the U.S. Trade Repre-
sentative. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer for
Nucor Corporation, which he joined in 1982.
DiMicco was appointed to the United States Manufacturing
Council in 2008 by then-U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos
M. Gutierrez, and served on the board until 2011. In addi-
tion, he served on the boards of the National Association of
Manufacturers and the World Steel Association on the Ex-
ecutive Committee. He currently serves on the Board of Di-
rectors for Duke Energy Corporation and represents Nucor
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DiMicco graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in
Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials Science, and received
his M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Affiliations: Nucor Corporation, American Iron and Steel Institute, Duke
Energy Carolinas LLC, U.S. Council on Competitiveness, Coalition for a
Prosperous America, National Association of Manufacturers
Paul Atkins
Paul Atkins serves on the Trump transition team as an
economic advisor, focusing specifically on independent
financial agencies. Atkins is the Chief Executive Officer of
Patomak Global Partners LLC, which provides consulting
services on financial industry matters. He is also an inde-
pendent director and non-executive chairman of the board
of BATS Global Markets Inc.
Atkins was appointed by President George W. Bush to be
Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
in 2002, where he served until 2008. Previous to this ap-
pointment, he served on the staff of two former chairmen
of the SEC as executive assistant and counsellor. He began
his career as a lawyer in New York City with Davis Polk &
Wardwell, and was resident for 2.5 years in his firm’s Paris
office and admitted as conseil juridique in France in 1988.
Atkins received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of
Law. He is married with three sons.
Affiliations: Securities and Exchange Commission, Patomak Global Partners
LLC, BATS Global Markets, The Federalist Society, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Christine Toretti
Christine Toretti is serving on the Trump transition team as an
economic advisor, focusing specifically on the Small Business
Administration. Toretti is the Chairman and CEO of S.W. Jack
Drilling Co., the largest privately held land-based drilling com-
pany in the U.S. The company was founded by Toretti’s grand-
father, and she assumed control of the company in 1990.
Toretti founded the Anne Anstine Excellence in Public Service
Series, a training program to educate, empower and advance
Republican women. She was appointed to the Pennsylvania
State System of Higher Education in 1995. In addition, she was
appointed to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission,
the Rural Telephone Bank, the National Petroleum Council and
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In 1997, she was elected RNC National Committeewoman from
Pennsylvania, and was a key player in Bush’s 2000 election.
Affiliations: National Council of Colonial Williamsburg, Indiana Hospital,
Indiana Chamber of Commerce, The Committee of 200, S.W. Jack Drilling
Co., Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, Rural Telephone Bank,
National Petroleum Council
Jeff Eisenach
Jeff Eisenach is serving on the Trump transition team as
an economic advisor, focusing specifically on the Federal
Communications Commission. Eisenach is the Managing
Director of NERA Economic Consulting’s Communication,
Media, and Internet practice. In addition, he is a visiting
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an Adjunct
Professor at George Mason University Law School.
Eisenach has served in senior policy positions at the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission and the White House Office
of Management and Budget. He was previously faculty at
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Eisenach has written or editied 19 books and monographs
focusing on economic issues. He was formerly managing di-
rector and principal at Navigant Economics, and before that
he served as Chairman of Empiris LLC, Criterion Economics
and CapAnalysis LLC.
Affiliations: NERA Economic Consulting, Navigant Economics LLC, George
Mason Universit, Economic Club of Washington, Pew Project, Empiris LLC,
Cirterion Economics LLC, CapAnalysis Group LLC, Progress & Freedom
Foundation, Washington Policy Group Inc., Federal Trade Commission,
American Enterprise Institute
Michael Korbey
Michael Korbey is serving on the Trump transition team as an
economic advisor, focusing specifically on the Social Securi-
ty Administration. Korbey served in the Reagan, George H.W.
Bush and George W. Bush administrations as a senior exec-
utive in six federal agencies, including as a Senior Advisor
to the Principal Deputy Commissioner at the Social Security
Administration, Executive Director of the Occupational Safe-
ty and Health Review Commission (OSHA), Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Policy and Administration at OSHA, and Comp-
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In addition to public service, Korbey served nine years as
the Director of Public Policy and Legislative Affairs for the
United Seniors Association. He also previously worked as a
political aide to Richard A. Viguerie.
Korbey worked with the American Civil Rights Union, a con-
servative organization, as the Managing Director in 2014.
Affiliations: Conservative Caucus, Social Security Administration, United
Seniors Association
Domestic Issues
Ken Blackwell
Ken Blackwell is serving on Trump’s transition team as
head of domestic policy issues. Blackwell is an Ameri-
can politician and activist who served as the mayor of
Cincinnati, Ohio from 1979 to 1980, the Ohio State Trea-
surer from 1994 to 1999 and Ohio Secretary of State
from 1999 to 2007.
Blackwell served in the administration of President
George H.W. Bush as undersecretary in the Department
of Housing and Urban Development from 1989 to 1990.
President Bush appointed Blackwell ambassador to the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, where he
served from 1992 to 1993.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and the Board of Adivsors of the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs.
Blackwell received his both his B.S. and M.A. from
Xavier University.
Affiliations: National Rifle Association, Family Research Council, Nation-
al Federatoin of Republican Assemblies, United Nations Human Rights
Commission, Timothy Plan, International Foundation for Electoral Systems,
United States Air Force Academy Foundation, Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund
Mike McKenna
McKenna is a long time Republican political strategist and
the President of MWR Strategies, which focuses on ener-
gy related lobbying. He has lobbied for the Dow Chemical
Company, Southern Company, and Koch Companies Public
Sector. McKenna served as the director of policy and ex-

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ternal affairs for the Virginia Department of Environmental
Quality under Governor George Allen and was an external
relations specialist for the Energy Department under Presi-
dent George H.W. Bush’s administration.
McKenna was hired by the Trump campaign to lead the De-
partment of Energy transition team.
Affiliations: American Energy Alliance; Institute for Energy Research
Myron Ebell
Ebell, the director of the Center for Energy and Environ-
ment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an organiza-
tion funded by the Koch brothers and several oil and gas
companies. He chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which
brings together nonprofit groups that “question global
warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.”
Ebell has been critical of climate change actions through-
out his career.
Most recently, Ebell was selected by President-Elect Donald
Trump to lead the Environmental Protection Agency
transition team.
Affiliations: Competitive Enterprise Institute; Cooler Heads Coalition;
Steve Hart
Steve Hart is expected to serve on the Labor Department
transition team.
Hart has been named one of Washington’s top lobbyists
by Washingtonian magazine and The Hill newspaper. Most
recently, in 2011, he was listed by Chambers USA as one of
the nation’s top government affairs lawyers and partners at
one of the nation’s top government affairs firms, Williams &
Jensen. He is also recognized as one of the top fundraisers
by National Journal. Hart concentrates his practice on tax,
employee benefits, energy, transportation, entertainment
industry, and telecommunication issues, representing client
interests in legislative and regulatory initiatives.
During the first administration of Ronald Reagan, Hart was
the Justice Department Special Assistant in charge of pro-
cessing Federal judicial nominations. He also served at the
Office of Management and Budget on the President’s Reor-
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in the Pension Welfare Benefits Program, and at the Pen-
sion Benefits Guaranty Corporation.
In addition to his legal experience, Hart is a CPA and
worked on the tax staff of a major accounting firm before
attending law school. He currently sits on the board of The
Congressional Awards Foundation, a federally chartered
youth organization. He is currently a board member and
also a past president of the Lung Cancer Alliance. He is an
Arthur Barto Adams Fellow at the Michael F. Price School of
Business Administration (Oklahoma University).
Affiliations: Williams & Jensen, Chambers USA, Dept. of Justice, Office of
Management and Budget, Labor Department, Lung Cancer Alliance, Okla-
homa University Michael F. Price School of Business Administration
Andrew Bremberg
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Andrew Bremberg is a policy adviser to Senate Majori-
ty Leader Mitch McConnell and a former Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) official under Bush. He
is expected to serve on the HHS transition team. He joined
the Wisconsin governor’s Our American Revival group,
which serves as Walker’s political platform. There, he over-
saw developing both domestic and foreign policy for Our
American Revival as Walker seeks to beef up foreign policy
expertise on his nascent campaign.
Affiliations: Scott Walker for America, Sen. Mitch McConnell, MITRE, De-
partment of Health and Human Services
Shirley Ybarra
Shirley Ybarra is expected to head the Department of
Transportation transition team. Ybarra is a former senior
transportation policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a
nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free mar-
kets. Ybarra served as Secretary of Transportation for the
Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2002, oversee-
ing a budget of $3.2 billion and a staff of 13,000 people.
Between 1994 and 1998, Ybarra was Virginia’s Deputy
Secretary of Transportation. Ybarra also served as senior
policy advisor and special assistant for policy for U.S.
Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole from 1983 to
1987. In that role, Ybarra managed the transfer and pri-
vatization of Dulles and National Airports to the Wash-
ington Metropolitan Airport Authority. Ybarra authored
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sidered the model public-private partnership legislation
in the United States.
Affiliations: Reason Foundation, Virginia Department of Transportation,
American Road and Transportation Builders Association, Fmr. Gov., Sen.
And Rep. George Allen
Williamson “Bill” Evers
Bill Evers is expected to head Trump’s education transition
team. Ever is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution
and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12
Education. He specializes in research on education policy
especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, ac-
countability, and school finance from kindergarten through
high school.
Evers served as an assistant secretary for policy at the U.S.
Department of Education from 2007 to 2009, and also was
an adviser to former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret
Spellings in 2007 under President George W. Bush. Evers
has an extensive background in academic standards. He was
appointed by two former California governors, Pete Wilson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to serve on two separate stan-
dards commissions. And he’s been a big critic of the Com-
mon Core State Standards. In a 2015 op-ed for Education
Week, for example, Evers said advocates of the common
core were subverting a key aspect of the American civic
system. He’s also written about struggling schools, mathe-
matics, and school funding, among other topics. Evers has
served on a county board of education in California, where
he’s also been on the board of directors for a charter school.
He also spent six months in Iraq in 2003 as an education
adviser to the country’s transitional government.
He has written opinion columns that have appeared in
Education Week, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. He is a
member of the editorial board of Education Next (formerly
Education Matters).
Affiliations: Hoover Institution, Koret Task Force, Margaret Spellings,
Coalition Provisional Authority, Fmr. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cali-
fornia State Academic Content Standards Commission, California State
Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance
Standards, Santa Clara County Board of Education, East Palo Alto Charter
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Gerard Robinson
Gerard Robinson is speculated to join Trump’s education
transition team, however was not listed on the “agency ac-
tion team” structure chart released following Trump’s win.
Robinson is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute (AEI), where he works on education policy issues
including choice in public and private schools, regulatory
development and implementation of K-12 laws, the role of
for-profit institutions in education, prison education and
reentry, rural education, and the role of community colleges
and Historically Black Colleges and Universities in adult
advancement. Before working at AEI, he led the state de-
partment of education in Virginia, then in Florida. Robinson
served as the Florida Commissioner of Education from June
21, 2011 to August 31, 2012. He was also president of the
Black Alliance for Educational Options. Robinson’s recent
work and writings at AEI focus on school choice, race and
criminal justice reform.
Affiliations: American Enterprise, Black Alliance for Educational Options,
UniversityNow, Florida Department of Education
David Bernhardt
David Bernhardt, the co-chair of the natural resources de-
partment at the firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and
a George W. Bush Interior Department official, will lead the
transition’s Interior Department team. Bernhardt, a veteran
hand at Interior, served as deputy chief of staff and direc-
tor of congressional and legislative affairs before becoming
solicitor. His current lobbying clients, according to con-
gressional disclosures, are the recreational company Active
Network LLC and California’s Westlands Water District. Ber-
nhardt is co-chair of the firm’s Natural Resources Depart-
ment and represents a wide range of clients in rulemakings,
regulatory enforcement proceedings, adjudications and
permitting reviews. His multidisciplinary practice provides
advocacy and advice to clients on issues originating from
Federal administrative agencies, the White House, Congress
and the courts, with special emphasis on issues, transac-
tions and cases related to the environment, energy, natural
resources and wildlife.
In 2006, Bernhardt was unanimously confirmed by the
United States Senate to serve as the Solicitor of the De-
partment of the Interior. Prior to serving as Solicitor, he
held several high level positions with the Interior including:
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Secretary of the Interior, and Director of the Office of Con-
gressional and Legislative Affairs.
In addition to his responsibilities at the Department of Inte-
rior, in 2007 Bernhardt was appointed by President Bush to
lead the International Boundary Commission between the
United States and Canada where he was responsible, along
with his Canadian counterpart, for maintaining the 5,525-
mile international boundary between these two nations.
Affiliations: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Pres. George W. Bush, Active
Network LLC, Department of the Interior, International Boundary Commission
Michael Torrey
Michael Torrey, a veteran food and agriculture lobbyist, is
leading President-elect Donald Trump’s transition effort for
the Department of Agriculture.
As principal and founder of Michael Torrey Associates, Tor-
rey provides overall firm guidance and management, fosters
relationships with influential leaders in Congress and the
administration, leads client development efforts and han-
dles issues management for clients. He specializes in food,
agriculture, risk management and financial services. He
has served as advisor to presidential candidate and Senate
Majority Leader Bob Dole, an advisor to Senators Nancy
Landon Kassebaum and Sheila Frahm, deputy chief of staff
at USDA, special assistant at the Commodity Futures Trad-
ing Commission, and has served in numerous roles for state
and national trade associations including the International
Dairy Foods Association and Kansas Grain and Feed Asso-
ciation/Kansas Fertilizer and Chemical Association.
Affiliations: Michael Torrey Associates, Sen. Bob Dole, International Dairy
Foods Association, Kansas Grain and Feed Association, Kansas Fertilizer
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Management/Budget
Ed Meese
Ed Meese is expected to serve on the Trump transition
group focused on the Executive Office of the President,
which includes the Office of Management and Budget.
Meese is an American attorney, law professor, author and
member of the Republican Party who served in official ca-
pacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Adminis-
tration (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team
(1980) and the Reagan White House (1981–1985), eventually
rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of
the United States (1985–1988), a position from which he re-
signed while under investigation from a special prosecutor.
The former attorney general was among many prominent
conservatives who slammed Trump’s candidacy in a special
issue of National Review in January.
He currently holds fellowships and chairmanships with
several public policy councils and think-tanks, including the
Constitution Project and the Heritage Foundation. He is
also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institu-
tion at Stanford University.
He currently sits on the National Advisory Board of Center
for Urban Renewal and Education. He is on the board of di-
rectors of The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy
Studies. He has served on the board of Cornerstone closed
end funds.
Affiliations: National Review, Constitution Project, Heritage Foundation,
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, National Advisory Board of Center
for Urban Renewal and Education, Cornerstone
Kay Coles James
Kay Coles James is expected to serve on the Trump transi-
tion group focused on the Executive Office of the President,
which includes the Office of Management and Budget.
James most recently served as a Senior Fellow and Director
of The Citizenship Project at the Heritage Foundation. She
led Heritage’s efforts to restore a strong ethic of citizenship
and civic responsibility and provided expert opinion to elect-
ed and appointed officials nationwide on issues affecting
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Prior to joining Heritage, James served as Dean of the
School of Government at Regent University and Chair of
the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. James
served as Secretary of Health and Human Resources for
former Virginia Governor George Allen where she designed
and implemented Virginia’s landmark welfare reform initia-
tive. Under former President Bush, James was an Assistant
Secretary for Health and Human Services.
Before serving in the Allen Administration, James was
senior vice president of the Family Research Council in
Washington, D.C. She also served under President George
H. W. Bush as associate director of the White House Office
of National Drug Control Policy and as assistant secretary
for public affairs at the US. Department of Health and Hu-
man Services. She was appointed by President Reagan and
re-appointed by President George H. W. Bush as head of
the National Commission on Children. James has served on
the Fairfax County and Virginia State Boards of Education,
as well as the boards of the Coalition of Christian Colleges
and Universities, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and
Young Life.
Affiliations: Heritage Foundation, Regent University, National Gambling
Impact Study Commission, Fmr. Gov. George Allen, Pres. George H. W.
Bush, National Commission on Children, Fairfax County and Virginia State
Boards of Education, Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities, the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Young Life, Amerigroup, Inc., PhyCor, Inc.,
Focus on the Family, the Center for Jewish and Christian Values
Paul Winfree
Paul Winfree is expected to serve on the OMB transition team.
Winfree, an economist and leading voice in Washington for free
markets and fiscal responsibility, is director of the Thomas A. Roe
Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
He also is the think tank’s inaugural Richard F. Aster fellow.
On the Senate staff as well as at The Heritage Foundation, Win-
free has fought for opportunity for all and a smaller, less expensive,
less intrusive, and more effective government. Winfree, previously
a senior policy analyst in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, re-
turned to the think tank in 2015 after serving as director of income
security at the Senate Committee on the Budget. He was respon-
sible for the committee’s work on tax, health, and welfare policy.
He also helped develop legislative proposals, including congres-
sional budget resolutions and annual appropriations bills.
Affiliations: Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foun-
dation, Senate Committee on the Budget

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