Quinn Gillespie & Associates (QGA) is an American bipartisan lobbying and communications firm founded in 2000 by Republican political strategist Ed Gillespie and Democratic operative Jack Quinn. It was sold in 2004 to WPP, one of the world's largest communications services groups.
It was one of the first government relations firms in Washington to employ professionals of both political parties. Ed Gillespie, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Jack Quinn, former White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton, founded the firm along with former co-chairman Jeff Connaughton [1].
Since 2003, QGA has been in the top 10 of DC lobbying firms by revenues.
American Public University System
Amaranth
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
Association for Information Protection
AT&T
Broadway League
BNSF Railway
Caribbean Property Group
Cayman Islands Financial Services Association
Cemex
Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
Creative Coalition
DBR Ventures
Diageo
EADS North America
eHealth
Entergy
Exelon
First Data
Forest County Potawatomi Community
Genomatica Roll Call
H-E-B
ICAP
Imara Corporation
Immigration Voice
Japan External Trade Organization
Knights of Columbus
MASN
MBA Polymers
MetLife
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
National Association of Realtors
National Venture Capital Association
PetroAlgae
Pink Media Group
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Qualcomm
Republic of Macedonia
Republika Srpska
Royal Caribbean
SatCon
Strong American Schools
State Farm
Sony
T-Mobile
The Science Coalition
US Chamber of Commerce
US Telecom
Verizon Wireless
Virtua Health
Visa Inc.
Zurich
Management
Jack Quinn, Co-founder and chairman, Former Counsel to President Bill Clinton and Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore
John David "Dave" Hoppe, President, Former Chief of Staff to then-Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
Democrats
Michael Hussey, Served as Chief of Staff and Chief Federal Lobbyist for the American Resort Development Association
Bonnie Hogue Duffy, Former legislative assistant to Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Senior Health Policy Advisor to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee
Ambassador Ralph R. Johnson (ret.)
Kevin Kayes, Former Chief Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
Nick Maduros, Worked as an attorney in Arnold & Porter's Public Policy Practice Group
Manuel Ortiz, Most recently served as National Finance Vice Chairman and Co-Chair of the Hispanic Steering Committee for Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign [2]
Rick Shapiro, Formerly executive vice president of public affairs for CEMEX's U.S. operations
Stephanie Sutton, Served as New York Finance Director for then-Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand (NY-20)
Patrick Von Bargen, Former Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Managing Executive for Policy & Staff for Chairman William H. Donaldson (R-NY) at the Securities & Exchange Commission
Republicans
Drew Cole
Elizabeth Hogan, Previously worked for the Bush Administration and the Republican National Committee
Marc Lampkin, Previously served in a variety of roles with the Bush for President campaign and was formerly the General Counsel to then-House Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner (now House Majority Leader)
David R. Lugar, Former Director of Congressional Affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Harriet James Melvin, Previously served Vice President for Federal Government Affairs for Circuit City Stores and CarMax
Communications
Susan Garman Kranias, Former Managing Director and member of the public affairs leadership team at Burson-Marsteller
Virginia Hume, Former Managing Director at BMSG Worldwide
Pat McMurray, Worked as a writer-producer on a political talk show at MSNBC, a news editor and writer at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a news writer at CNN's Washington bureau
Matthew Dornic, who also writes the FishbowlDC blog for MediaBistro.com
Christopher Brown, a former producer of America's Most Wanted
Ashley Prime, Previously worked for the Republican National Committee
QGA's annual Flak Bash [3] honors D.C.’s most daring and verbally agile communicators
Articles
[4] Capital File Magazine, Summer 2009
[5] The Hill's 20 Questions
[6] BusinessWeek Special Report "Obama's Business Report Card"
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