Other Administration Appointees

John Phelan
Private Investor

A major donor to the Trump campaign, Phelan founded Rugger Management LLC, a private investment firm. Phelan also co-founded MSD Capital, the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies. Phelan held an advisory position on the Spirit of America, a nonprofit that supports Ukraine and Taiwan defense.

Hung Cao
Navy Veteran, Politician

Hung Cao, a refugee from Vietnam who immigrated to the US as a child, served 25 years in the Navy, with deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. After retiring as a captain, he entered politics, running unsuccessfully for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District in 2022 and later losing a challenge to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in 2024.

Daniel P. Driscoll
Senior Advisor to Vice President JD Vance

An army veteran serving as an armor officer from 2007 to 2011, Driscoll was deployed to Iraq and left the army ranking as a First Lieutenant. After his service, Driscoll worked in venture capital and private equity. Currently, Driscoll is a senior advisor to vice president JD Vance.

Dr. Troy Meink
Principal Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Office | Former Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space

Meink, the principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, served as the deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for space during the Obama administration. He joined the Air Force in 1988 and has served in several notable positions as a test engineer for missile defense systems and a KC-135 Tanker navigator.

Sean Parnell
Former Combat Veteran and US Senate Candidate

Parnell is a Combat Veteran who served from 2004 to 2010 and earned two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart for his time in Afghanistan. Parnell ran for the US House in 2020 and the US Senate in 2021 in Pennsylvania.

Robert P. Kadlec
Former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

Kadlec served as the assistant secretary for Preparedness and Response at the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration. He was an officer and physician in the US Air Force for more than 20 years. Recently, he served as the deputy staff director to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Colonel Matthew Lohmeier
Former Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force and Space Force

Lohmeier was a fighter pilot and lieutenant colonel in the Air Force before he transferred to be a squadron commander in the Space Force. He wrote the 2021 book, Irresistible Revolution, and went on to host the Matt Lohmeir Show. He graduated from the US Air Force Academy and has a master’s degrees from the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.

Stephen Feinberg
Former Chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board Under Trump

Feinberg founded his company Cerberus Capital Management, where he serves as the CEO, in 1992. He served as the chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board during Trump’s first administration from 2018 to 2021. He is a graduate of Princeton University.

Justin Overbaugh
Former Colonel in the US Army

Overbaugh, a retired Colonel in the US Army, culminated his service at the US Special Operations Command as a director of intelligence for a Joint Special Operations Command Task Force. He is also the recipient of the National Counterintelligence Executive’s 2014 Counterintelligence Operations award.

Dale Marks
Former ED of the 96th Test Wing at Englin Air Force Base

Marks was the executive director of the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base. Before that assignment, he was the deputy director of Strategy, Plans, Programming and Analysis for National Guard Bureau (NGB) Space Operations.

Michael Jensen
Former Air Force Commander

Jensen, an Air Force Academy graduate, served in the military for more than 20 years before becoming a business executive in 2021. During his time in the Air Force, he was a 26th Special Tactics Squadron commander and a deputy commander of the 724th Special Tactics Group. He also served as a strategy lead in the Air Force’s Checkmate office at the Pentagon.

Joe Kasper
Managing Director at Ervin Graves | Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for US Senate Affairs at DHS | Senior Advisor for Strategy, Policy, and Plans at the DHS

Kasper, a managing director at Ervin Graves, was deputy assistant secretary for US Senate Affairs, and later, senior advisor for Strategy, Policy, and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security. Before that, he spent three years in the Department of Defense.

Elbridge “Bridge” Colby
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development

Colby is the co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative. From 2017 to 2018, he was the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development. Afterwards, Colby was director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).

Emil Michael  
Former Chief Business Officer of Uber

Michael was the chief business officer of Uber. He served as a special assistant to the secretary of Defense when he was a White House fellow from 2009 to 2011. In addition to his time at Uber, he has worked as the COO of Klout, and as an advisor to various tech companies.

Bradley D. Hansell
Former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

After serving as special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration, he spent three years as a principal at Boston Consulting Group. He then went on to work as a venture partner at Outlander VC and an operating partner at Windage Partners.

Anthony J. Tata
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

During the first Trump administration, Tata served as the undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He also served for 28 years in the United States Army, as the chief operating officer of Washington, DC Public Schools, superintendent of Wake County (Raleigh, NC) Public School System and secretary of Transportation of North Carolina.

Keith Bass
Former Navy Commander

Bass, a retired navy commander, is the medical center director for West Texas VA Health Care System, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 17. He has led medical departments in the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House Medical Unit.

Earl Matthews
Former Deputy Assistant to the President | Former Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy

Matthews served as deputy assistant to the President and senior director for Defense Policy and Strategy on the National Security Council staff during the first Trump administration. Before that, Matthews was the acting general counsel and later principal deputy general counsel of the US Army. Matthews is a military veteran and serves as a colonel in the Army Reserve.

Dr. Paul R. Lawrence, Ph.D.
Former Undersecretary of Benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs

As undersecretary of Veterans Affairs during Trump’s first administration, Lawrence oversaw the 20,000 employees and 56 regional offices distributing veteran benefits. Prior to his VA service, he was a vice president at Kaiser Associates. He spent 30 years in management consulting, working as a partner at Ernst & Young and other firms. He was a captain in the US Army and is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal.

Sam Brown
Veteran| Small Business Owner

Brown, a purple heart recipient, was medically retired from the US Military as a captain after a deployment in Afghanistan. After his time in the military, Brown received an MBA from SMU and started a small business that provides emergency pharmaceutical support to veterans outside of the VA. Brown was the republican candidate in the US Senate race in November, which he lost to incumbent Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV).

David Fotouhi
Former Acting General Counsel for the EPA

Fotouhi is a partner in the DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher after serving as the acting general counsel and principle deputy counsel at the EPA during Trump’s first term. Before his time at the EPA, Fotouhi was part of Gibson Dunn’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort practice group.

Sean Donahue
Former Special Advisor in the Office of Land and Energy Management

Donahue was a special advisor in the Office of Land and Energy Management and an associate counsel at a solar energy company. He was part of President Trump’s transition team, serving as principal deputy general counsel.

Pierre Gentin
Former Chief Legal Officer at McKinsey

Gentin was a chief legal officer at McKinsey, where he also served as a member of McKinsey’s leadership team. He was a partner in private law practice, a senior legal and risk officer at a global financial services firm and a lawyer with the US Department of Justice.

Paul Dabbar
Former Undersecretary for Science, Department of Energy

The Honorable Paul M. Dabbar served as the fourth undersecretary for Science at the Department of Energy. Prior to this role, he was a member of the department’s Environmental Management Advisory Board and a managing director at J.P. Morgan. Dabbar holds a BS from the US Naval Academy and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

Michael J. Rigas
Former Deputy and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and the Acting Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget

Prior to his time serving during the first Trump administration, Rigas was a senior advisor and associate administrator at the General Services Administration. Rigas was also chief of staff at the Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services and spent time at the Heritage Foundation.

Monica Crowley
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs

Crowley, a former analyst for Fox News, is a bestselling author, anchor and podcast host. Crowley was a foreign policy assistant to President Nixon and worked at the Department of Treasury during the Trump administration. If confirmed, Crowley will act as the US representative for the World Cup and Olympics.

Michael George DeSombre
Former United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand

Michael George DeSombre served as the US ambassador to Thailand from 2020 to 2021. Following his diplomatic service, he became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he led the Asia Mergers & Acquisitions Practice as well as the Korea and Southeast Asia Practices.

Jacob Helberg
Commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission | Senior Advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies

Helberg is a senior advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies, a commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and a fellow at CNAS. He wrote The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power and previously worked for Google.

Reed Rubinstein
Senior Vice President of the America First Legal Foundation

Rubinstein is the senior vice president of the America First Legal Foundation. He served in the Trump administration as deputy associate attorney general, general counsel, US Department of Education (delegated) and senior advisor to the secretary of the Treasury, among other things Rubinstein has JD, MA, and AB degrees from the University of Michigan and is a member of the DC, Virginia, Michigan and Connecticut bars.

Matthew Whitaker
Former Acting Attorney General and US Attorney

Whitaker was the acting attorney general between Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr’s tenure during the first Trump administration. Coming out of a law enforcement background, Whitaker served as a US attorney for the Southern District of Iowa.

Warren Stephens
Ambassador to the UK and Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.

Stephens is an American businessman. He serves as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Stephens Inc., a privately owned investment bank. President Donald Trump nominated Stephens to be the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Michael E. Kavoukjian
Former Senior Partner at White & Case

Kavoukjian was a senior partner at White & Case in the Global Commercial Litigation Group and the head of the Firm’s fiduciary litigation practice. Kavoukjian previously worked as a CIA operations officer and is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.

Thomas Rose
Former Publisher and CEO of Jerusalem Post

From 1997 to 2005, Rose served as the publisher and CEO of Jerusalem Post. After that, he hosted a radio show on Sirius XM for more than 8 years and served in the White House during the first Trump administration as a senior advisor and chief strategist to Vice President Pence.

Howard Brodie
Co-President and General Counsel of Brodie Generational Capital Partners

Brodie was co-president and general counsel of Brodie Generational Capital Partners, an investment firm based in Pennsylvania. Before his time at BGCP, Brodie was vice president and general counsel at Purolite Corporation for two years, and executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary at Empower Energies Clean Infrastructure LLC for 13 years.

Michel Issa
Banker

Michel Issa, a Lebanese American originally from a town north of Beirut, studied economics in Paris before working at the Union of Arab and French Banks. He left the banking sector in 1999 to acquire Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen dealerships. Issa is also known to be a friend of former President Trump.

Lynda Blanchard
Former Ambassador to Slovenia

Lynda Blanchard served as the US ambassador to Slovenia during the first Trump administration. She co-founded B&M Management Company, a real estate investment firm, and the 100X Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on combating poverty and improving children’s lives worldwide. Blanchard is a graduate of Auburn University.

Duke Buchan III
Finance Chair, Republican National Committee

Duke Buchan is the founder and CEO of Hunter Global Investors and served as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee. He has held roles at Merrill Lynch and Maverick Capital and was the US ambassador to Spain and Andorra during the first Trump administration.

Amer Ghalib
Former Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan

Amer Ghalib served as the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, after being elected in 2021. Born in Yemen, he was the city’s first Arab American and Muslim mayor. During the 2024 presidential election, Ghalib endorsed former President Trump and campaigned alongside him.

Bill Bazzi
Former Mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Bill Bazzi, a Lebanese-born US Marine veteran, served as the Mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan. He previously worked with Boeing and Ford. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Bazzi endorsed President Trump.

Herschel Walker
Former Professional Football Player | Former Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition

Walker was a running back at UGA, receiving a Heisman Trophy before he went on to play in the USFL and the NFL. He served as a spokesman for the Universal Health Services’ Patriot Support Program and was the chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition during the first Trump administration. Walker was the Trump-endorsed Senate candidate in Georgia’s 2022 election, which was won by Senator Raphael Warnock.

Charles Kushner
Ambassador to France and Founder of Kushner Companies

Kushner is an American real estate developer and a former attorney. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. His son, Jared Kushner, is married to Ivanka Trump and is the son-in-law of President Trump. During Trump’s presidency, Jared served as a senior advisor from 2017 to 2021.

Joe Popolo
Founder and CEO of Charles and Potomac Capital, LLC

Popolo is the founder and CEO of Charles and Potomac Capital, LLC, the chairman of the Board of Pinnacle Live, LLC, and a board member of Ondas Holdings. Popolo led the Freeman Company, the world’s largest event production company, as CEO and president. At Freeman, he grew it to a US$3B company and sold its technology subsidiary to Blackstone in 2019. He received the “E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year” award and the Dallas Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEO” award.

Melinda Hildebrand
Vice Chair of the Hildebrand Foundation and Vice President of Hilcorp Ventures Inc.

Hildebrand is the vice chair of the Hildebrand Foundation, the vice president of Hilcorp Ventures Inc., and the president and owner of River Oaks Donuts in Houston. She serves on the boards of several universities and cultural institutions. She is married to Jeffery Hildebrand, the founder, chairman and CEO of Hilcorp Energy Company.

Nicholas Merrick
Former President of Mt. Vernon Investments

Merrick was president of Mt. Vernon Investments, a family office and investment firm in Dallas owned by Kenny Troutt, founder of Excel Communications. Prior to Mt. Vernon Investments, Merrick was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Teleglobe, Inc. and Telco Communications Group, Inc. Merrick served on the board of directors of Tiedemann Wealth Management LLC and the Investment Sub-Committee of Texas Health Resources, as well as working part-time as a teacher at Cistercian Preparatory School.

Benjamin Leon Jr.
Founder of Leon Medical Centers

Benjamín León, Jr., is a Cuban immigrant who founded Leon Medical Centers in 1996. Prior to that, he co-founded Clínica Asociación Cubana (CAC) with his father in 1970. Leon is a native south Floridian, and has made significant philanthropic contributions to Miami Dade College, and Florida International University.

Callista L. Gingrich
Former Ambassador to the Holy See

Gingrich is the president and CEO of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company. She was the ambassador to the Holy See during the first Trump administration. She is married to Newt Gingrich, the former US House speaker.

Ken Howery
Former Ambassador to Sweden Under Trump

Howery was a co-founder of PayPal and venture capital fund, Founders Fund. He is a founding advisor at Kiva.org, a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, and a former board member of the Board of Directors of the Explorers Club.

Jared Novelly
Chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management

Novelly is the owner of the Australian basketball Illawarra Hawks team and served as the chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management. Novelly is also an East Asia Super League Basketball shareholder.

Andrew F. Puzder
Former CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc.

Puzder spent 17 years as the chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent of international restaurant chains Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s. Puzder was nominated to head Trump’s Department of Labor during the first Trump administration before he withdrew from consideration.

Tilman J. Fertitta
CEO of Landry’s | Owner of Houston Rockets

Fertitta is the CEO of Landry’s and owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team. He starred in CNBC’s reality show Billion Dollar Buyer. He is the longest serving chairman of the Board of Regents for the University of Houston and a donor to Trump’s Save America PAC.

Mark Burnett
Former Chair of MGM’s Television Studio | Producer of The Apprentice

Burnett is the former chair of MGM’s television studio and producer of several shows, including Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, as well as Trump’s show, The Apprentice. He has received 13 Emmy Awards. Brunett was born in the UK. This is a first-time appointment by a president to have an ambassador and a special envoy to the UK

Mauricio Claver-Carone
Former Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council Under President Trump | Former president of the Inter-American Development Bank

Claver-Carone is the managing partner and Investment Committee co-chair of the Latin America Real Assets Opportunities Fund (“LARA Fund”). Before his time at the LARA Fund, Claver-Carone served as president and chairman of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (“IDB”) after serving the Trump White House.

Ambassador George Glass
Former US Ambassador to Portugal

Before serving as the ambassador to Portugal under Trump, Glass was the owner and managing partner of MGG Development LLC. Prior to that, Glass was the founder, president and vice chairman of Pacific Crest Securities. He is a long time Trump donor who served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon.

Former Governor Mike Huckabee
Former Governor of Arkansas

Huckabee served as the governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He ran in the Republican presidential primaries in 2008 and 2016. The former Baptist minister most recently has worked as a commentator on Fox News.

Brian Burch
President and Co-Founder of CatholicVote (CV)

Burch, the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, is the co-author of the America Catholic Daily Reader, the author of “A New Catholic Moment: Donald Trump and the Politics of the Common Good” published in 2020. He regularly makes appearances on Fox News, Newsmax, New Nation, and BlazeTV. 

Christine Jack Toretti
Chairman of S&T Bancorp | Former Director, Federal Reserve of Pittsburgh | Republican National Committeewoman for Pennsylvania

Toretti was a RNC committeewoman for Pennsylvania and chairman of S&T Bancorp. Before her time at S&T, she was the director of the Pittsburgh Federal Reserve Bank. Toretti was a board member of the International Medical Corps, director of the NCAA Foundation, founding director of the Gettysburg Foundation and is the recipient of the Athena International Global Award.

Nicole McGraw
Art Collector and Gallery Owner

McGraw is an Art Collector and gallery owner, opening her gallery in Palm Beach Gardens in 2006. She is founder of the nonprofit CANVAS Art Charities and runs the CANVAS Art Hedge Fund. She is a board member of Place of Hope.  

Lou Rinaldi
Businessman | Golfer

Rinaldi is one of Trump’s personal friends. He is a contractor and engineer and has been a vendor in the construction of some of Trump’s courses. Rinaldi’s family emigrated to Uruguay from Italy. Rinaldi grew up in Uruguay and is a businessman and entrepreneur with an interest in golf.

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra
Former Ambassador to the Netherlands and former Chair, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Hoekstra served as a Michigan congressman from 1993 to 2011. During this time, he served as chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Hoekstra served as the United State ambassador to the Netherlands during President Trump’s first administration.

Leah Francis Campos
Former Senior Advisor for the Western Hemisphere, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

After working as an operations officer for the CIA, Campos served the US House of Representatives for almost five years as a senior advisor on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Her sister is Fox News host Rachel Campos Duffy, and her brother-in-law is Sean Duffy, a former congressman and Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation.

Ronald (Ron) Johnson
Former Ambassador to El Salvador | CIA’s Science and Technology Liaison to the US Special Operations Command

Johnson spent years in the US Army, where he was deployed to Panama and served in the Southern Command Area of Responsibility. After his time in the military, Johnson spent over 20 years working for the CIA. He served as the US Ambassador to El Salvador under Trump.

Art Fisher
President of Fisher Realty | Senate Appointee to the North Caroline Travel and Tourism Board

In addition to being a broker associate for Fisher Realty, Fisher is a trustee of Brevard College and the Pisgah Health Foundation. He is also a board member of United Community Bank and a Senate appointee to the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Board.

Tom Barrack 
Founder of Colony Capital (now DigitalBridge)

Tom Barrack is the founder of Colony Capital, and worked for the company, now called DigitalBridge, until 2021. Barrack previously served as deputy secretary at the Department of Interior during the Reagan administration. Barrack was a senior advisor to the Trump 2016 campaign and chaired the 2017 inaugural committee.

Kimberly Guilfoyle
Former Fox News Host | Trump 2020 Campaign Finance Chair

Guilfoyle served as the 2020 Trump campaign finance chair. Before joining the Trump campaign, she spent over a decade as a Fox News host and spent time as a prosecutor in California. She spoke at the last two Republican National Conventions.

Ambassador Brandon Judd
Former President of the National Border Patrol Council | Former President of the National Border Patrol Union

Before becoming the president of the National Border Patrol Council, Judd was the president of the National Border Patrol Union. He spent more than 15 years as a border patrol agent and served as an instructor at the Border Patrol Academy.

Stacey Feinberg
President of 33 Capital LLC

Feinberg worked for Bob Wolf Associates, her father—Bob Wolf’s—sports and entertainment law firm, before forming JLF Asset Management, a hedge fund. Feinberg is the President of 33 Capital LLC and is the director of the board for the Women’s Founders Network.

Senator David Perdue
Former Senator, GA

Perdue, a management consultant and business executive, served as a Georgia US Senator from 2015 to 2021, and ran for governor of Georgia in 2022. During his time in the Senate, Perdue was on the Armed Services Committee as the chair of the Sea Power Subcommittee and also held a position on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Bill White
CEO and Founder, Constellations Group

In 2010, White founded Constellations Group, a strategic advisory and consulting firm that provides counsel on business and philanthropic concerns. He is the former president of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. White is a resident of Atlanta and New York and served as a major fundraiser for both Republican and Democratic officials.

Edward Walsh
President of Walsh Company

Walsh is the president of Walsh Company, a construction and real estate firm which he founded in 2003. Before founding Walsh Company, Walsh was the senior vice president at Gale and Wentworth. He also served as the chairman of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority board.

Ambassador Christopher Landau
Former Ambassador to Mexico

From 2019 to 2021, Landau served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico under President Trump. He has spent over 30 years as a lawyer and clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. He is of counsel at Ellis George, LLP. 

Michael Needham
Former Chief of Staff to Senator Rubio

Needham is the chairman of American Compass and founder and executive director of America 2100. Before founding America 2100, Needham spent five years as the chief of staff for secretary of state Senator Marco Rubio. Before joining Rubio, Needham was the CEO of Heritage Action for America.

Michael Anton
Former Spokesman for the National Security Council  

Anton is a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. In the 2016 election, he wrote the influential essay, “The Flight 93 Election” supporting Trump’s candidacy for a Claremont publication. Before his time as a spokesman for the National Security Council under Trump, he held a national security position in the George W. Bush Administration.

Scott Kupor
Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Kupor is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Before that, he was vice president and general manager of software-as-a-service at Hewlett Packard. He is also the former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. Kupor has a bachelor’s and law degree from Stanford University.

Tammy Bruce
Political Analyst

Bruce is a political analyst who has served as a contributor at FOX News for almost 20 years, who hosts her own radio show, The Tammy Bruce Show. Bruce worked on several democratic campaigns before changing her party affiliation and becoming a conservative.

Daniel J. Newlin
Law Firm Owner and Trump Donor

After a 28-year career in law enforcement, Newlin founded Dan Newlin Injury Attorneys, the second largest personal injury law firm in the country. Newlin was a significant donor to Trump’s campaign and the fund supporting the family of the victim killed during the assassination attempt on Trump in July.  He received the Distinguished Service Medal for Sustained Superior Performance for his time as a sheriff’s detective at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Dr. Peter Lamelas, MD, MBA
Founder of MD Now Urgent Care | Former member of the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board

Lamelas, a Cuban immigrant, is the founder of MD Now Urgent Care, an urgent care system in Florida. An ER doctor for 20 years, he served on the State of Florida Board of Medicine. During Trump’s first term, Lamelas was on the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board.

 John Arrigo
Vice President of the Arrigo Auto Group

Arrigo was the vice president of the Arrigo Auto Group, located in West Palm Beach, where he has worked for more than 35 years. He is a long-time associate of Trump. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1985.

Leandro Rizzuto Jr
Former US Consul General to Bermuda

From 1982 to 2013, Rizzuto Jr held executive roles at Conair, his family’s company. He received the UNICO Garibaldi Award in 2011. Leandro Rizzuto Jr was the US Consul General during the first Trump administration. Rizzuto Jr then went on to serve on the board of a Trump super PAC.

Kevin Marino Cabrera
Miami-Dade County Commissioner | Vice Chairman of the International Trade Consortium

Cabrera served in Trump’s 2020 Florida reelection campaign as state director. He was the Miami-Dade County commissioner, and the vice chairman of the International Trade Consortium. In 2024, he served as a member of the RNC Platform Committee.

Somers Farkas
Vice President of the Arrigo Auto Former President’s Commission on White House Fellowships member | Former model | Former Advertising Executive

In 2017 Farkas, a former model and advertising executive, was appointed to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. She is a Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation and an Honorary Battalion Chief of the Fire Department of the City of New York.

Dr. Michael Faulkender
Former Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy | The Dean’s Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business | AFPI’s Chief Economist and Senior Advisor for the Center for American Prosperity

Faulkender is the dean’s professor of finance at the University of Maryland and is a chief economist and senior advisor for the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Faulkender served during the Trump administration, is published in top finance journals. He has taught at universities across the country.

Alexandra Preate
Founder and CEO of CapitalHQ

Preate was the founder and chief executive officer of CapitalHQ. Alexandra worked with Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore and Steve Forbes to launch the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, an advocacy group for conservative economic policy. Preate also worked as director of the American Swiss Foundation and was a founding member of the Monday Meeting in New York City.

Ken Kies
Tax Lawyer | Former Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation

Kies, a tax lawyer and lobbyist for 47 years, and has served as the chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the chief republican tax counsel of the House Ways and Means Committee. He was managing director of the Federal Policy Group, LLC.

Brian Morrissey
Former Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Treasury

Morrissey served as deputy general counsel of the Department of Treasury during the first Trump administration. He was partner in the Washington office of the law firm Sidley Austin, and he previously worked at the Justice Department and clerked in the Supreme Court.

Billy Long
Former Representative, R MO 7 | Auctioneer| Business and Tax Advisor

Before joining Congress, Long spent over 30 years running his auctioneering business, Billy Long Auctions LLC. From 2011 to 2023, the auctioneer and radio personality served as the Representative for Missouri’s  7^th Congressional District. After 12 years in Congress, Long now works as a business and tax advisor.

Aaron Reitz
Former Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz

Before serving as Senator Ted Cruz’s chief of staff, Reitz was Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s deputy. He was an officer in the US Marine Corps, where he spent five years deployed in Afghanistan. He graduated from Texas A&M University and has a law degree from University of Texas School of Law.

Kash Patel
Former Prosecutor

Kash Patel is a former prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. Previously, he was chief of staff to the US Secretary of Defense during the first Trump Administration. He was also a US National Security Council official, and senior advisor to the acting director of National Intelligence. Patel would be the first non-FBI agent to lead the FBI.

Dan Bongino
Podcast Host, Former Secret Service Officer

Dan Bongino began his career in public service in 1995 with the NYPD before joining the Secret Service in 1999. He later hosted the conservative podcast, The Dan Bongino Show and has provided commentary for Fox News. Bongino holds an MBA from Penn State University and both a MA and BA from the City University of New York.

Gadyaces S. Serralta
Former Marshal for the Southern District of Florida

Before Serralta was appointed Marshal for the Southern District of Florida, he rose to the rank of major with the Miami-Dade Police Department, a career that began there in 1990. He was also the police chief for the Palmetto Bay Policing Unit in the city of Palmetto Bay, Florida.

Chad Mizelle
Former General Counsel at DHS | Former Chief of Staff at the DHS

Mizell is the chief legal officer at Affinity Partners, before which he was of counsel with the law firm Jones Day. During Trump’s first administration, Mizelle served as general counsel and chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security. He is married to Kathryn Mizelle, a Trump-appointed judge who struck down the federal mask mandate.

D. John Sauer
Former Solicitor General of Missouri

Sauer is a former federal prosecutor who served as Missouri’s solicitor general from 2017 to 2023. In that role, he tried to intervene on behalf of Missouri and five other states in support of Texas’ unsuccessful fight to keep President Trump in power by challenging the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Sauer went on to successfully represent President Trump at the Supreme Court in his bid for presidential immunity.

Todd Blanche
Criminal Defense Attorney for Trump

Blanche is a lawyer who oversaw President Trump’s defense against multiple indictments.

Blanche rose to head violent crimes at the Southern District of New York, before heading to WilmerHale. Blanche then launched his own law practice, taking on President Trump as a client.

Leo Terrell
Civil Rights Attorney| Radio Host

Terrell, is a former Fox News contributor, public school teacher, radio host and civil rights attorney. He joined the NAACP in 1990 and was an advisory board member for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a member of the Statewide Commission Against Hate Crimes and the chairman of the Black-Korean Alliance.  

Joseph Nocella, Jr.
Former District Court Judge | Family Court Judge

Judge Nocella served as a Nassau County District Court judge and Family Court judge. He has a law degree from Columbia Law School and spent over ten years in private practice. Nocella was also an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1991 to 1995.

Harmeet K. Dhillon
Managing Partner of the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. | Founder of the Center for American Liberty

Dhillon, a member of the Sikh religious community, is the managing partner of the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. Dhillon is the former vice chair of the California GOP. She also founded the nonprofit law firm the Center for American Liberty.

Gail Slater
Former Tech Policy Advisor on the National Economic Council, the FTC, advisor in JD Vance’s senate office

Slater is an experienced lawyer and tech and media policy advisor who worked for FOX Corporation and Roku, along with other tech groups. Slater, a former policy advisor for vice president JD Vance’s Senate office, also served as a tech policy advisor at the National Economic Council under President Trump.

Terry Cole
Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security

Cole spent 22 years at the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). During that time, he served as the chief of staff and executive officer at the DEA/ Department of Justice Special Operations Division, the DEA representative to the National Security Council and chief of staff and executive officer for the DEA Chief of Global Operations. He then went on the serve as Virginia’s secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security under Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Tristan Abbey
Former President of Comarus Analytics LLC

Abbey was the President of Comarus Analytics LLC. Before that, he served as professional staff of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Abbey has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford and a master’s from Georgetown.

Paul Atkins
Former SEC Commissioner | CEO and Founder of Patomak Global Partners

Atkins, the CEO and Founder of Patomak Global Partners, initially worked as a lawyer in the financial market sectors. In the 1990s, Atkins worked for two former SEC chairmen, and from 2002 to 2008, he served as the SEC commissioner. Atkins was also a member of the President Trump’s strategic and policy forum.

David Fink
Former Pan Am Railways President

Fink, the son of a career railroader, has spent over 45 years in transportation leadership, starting his career in the 1980s working for General Motors. Fink was the president of Pan Am Railways from 2006 until 2022 when the company was acquired by CSX Transportation.

Brendan Carr
Commissioner of FCC

The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, Carr previously served as the FCC’s general counsel. Nominated by both President Trump and President Biden, Carr has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times.

Olivia Trusty
Policy Director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Olivia is currently the policy director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. She previously worked handling telecommunications and technology for Senator Wicker, worked on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, and worked as legislative assistant for Congressman Latta.

Jim O’Neill
Former HHS Principal Associate Deputy Secretary

O’Neill is the former CEO of the Thiel Foundation and has strong ties to Silicon Valley. He co-founded the Thiel Fellowship and spent time as the CEO of the SENS Research Foundation, an anti-aging nonprofit. O’Neill served as the Health and Human Services principal associate deputy secretary during the George H. W. Bush administration.

Dr. Mehmet Oz
TV Personality, Physician

The celebrity heart surgeon had his own show, “the Dr. OZ Show” for over ten years. He is a New York Times bestselling author, an Emmy-winning TV show host and founder of a nonprofit promoting healthy habits for teens.

Dr. Marty Makary
Chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins

Dr. Makary is a health care expert and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University. Makary is also a New York Times best-selling author who served in leadership at the World Health Organization. Dr. Makary has received the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation.

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat
New York Medical Director and Fox News Contributor

Dr. Nesheiwat has held the position of assistant medical director at CityMD and is a medical contributor for Fox News. In her early career, she was the host of Jones TV’s Family Health Today. Dr. Nesheiwat wrote the book Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine, set to be released on December 17, 2024. Her sister, Julia Nesheiwat, a former Army officer, served as the homeland security advisor during the first Trump administration.

Steven Gill Bradbury
Former General Counsel of the Department of Transportation

During Trump’s first administration, Bradbury served as the general counsel of the Department of Transportation. He also served as principle deputy and acting assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel at the Department of Justice under George W. Bush. He has been a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and at Dechert LLP.

Marcus Molinaro
Former US Congressman (R-NY)

Molinaro served as a Congressman for New York from 2023 to 2025. He started his career in public service in 1995 as the mayor of Tivoli, NY, before going on to serve as a member of the Dutchess County, NY, legislature. He was a member of the New York State Assembly.

Paul Roberti
Former Chief Counsel of Safety Regulation at PHMSA

Roberti was chief counsel who oversaw PHMSA’s safety regulations from 2018 to 2021. After that, Roberti worked as a managing director for the consulting firm Ernst & Young. From 2009 to 2016 he was commissioner on the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission and before that served as an assistant attorney general in Rhode Island.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Doctor and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University

Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. He also holds positions as an associate and senior fellow at several renowned research institutes. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world.

Jared Isaacman
Pilot | Astronaut | CEO of Shift4 | Co Founder of Draken International

Isaacman, a tech billionaire, became the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, which was made possible by a SpaceX capsule. He is the founder and CEO of Shift4, an online payment company, and is the co-founder and former CEO of Draken International.

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur

Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the Boring Company, social media site X, and Open AI. He is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $323 billion.

Katie Miller
Former Communications Director for the Vice President | Former Press Secretary to the Vice President

Early in her career, Miller worked for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as a deputy press secretary to the US Department of Homeland Security, and as a senior staffer to republican senators before joining the first Trump administration. She is married to the White House deputy chief of staff for Policy, Stephen Miller.

Frank Bisignano
Chairman, President and CEO of Fiserv Corporation

Bisignano is the chairman, president and CEO of Fiserv Corporation, which he joined when it merged with First Data Corporation in 2019. Before that, Bisignano was a top executive at JP Morgan Chase and Co. He has held senior positions at Citigroup and has a number of nonprofit commitments.

L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President of the Media Research Center

Bozell spent 38 years as the founder and president of the Media Research Center. He was the founder and first president of the Parents Television Council, and he spent time as the finance director, then president, of the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the National Conservative Foundation.

Katharine MacGregor
Vice President of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc.

MacGregor, the vice president of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc., worked at the Department of Interior under Trump. Before joining the Trump administration, MacGregor spent over 10 years as a staffer at the US House of Representatives. More than half of that time was spent working for the House Committee on Natural Resources.

William L. Doffermyre
Former Vice President and General Counsel for the Overseas Private Investment Corp

During the first Trump administration, Doffermyre served as vice president and general counsel for the Overseas Private Investment Corp. After that, Dofferyre went on to be a senior director of Energy Transfer’s Alternative Energy Group and general counsel of Lake Charles LNG Export Company, a subsidiary of ET.

Ryan Riedel
Former security engineer at SpaceX

Riedel worked as a lead network security engineer at SpaceX from 2020 to 2025. Before his time at SpaceX, he served as US Army cyber command and in the US Navy as an IT specialist.

Tina Pierce
Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense

Pierce served as the deputy chief financial officer of the Department of Defense after a year as the deputy assistant secretary for Financial Operations at the Air Force and her time as associate deputy assistant secretary for Financial Operations at the Air Force. Prior to that, she was chief of Financial Reporting and Compliance for the Defense Health Agency.

Conner Prochaska
Former Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy

Prochaska served as chief commercialization officer for the Department of Energy and as director of the Office of Technology Transitions. Before that, Prochaska worked at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and at a public investment fund. Prochaska also served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, obtaining the rank of lieutenant.

James P. Danly
Former Commissioner and Chairman at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Danly served as commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory. Before then, Danly served as general counsel to FERC and as a member of the energy regulation and litigation group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP.

Brandon Williams
Former New York Congressman (R-22) |Former US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer and Strategic Missile Officer

Williams, a businessman and Veteran, was a New York congressman from 2023 to 2025. During his time in the Navy, he served as a Nuclear Submarine officer, and Strategic Missile officer. He graduated from Pepperdine University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Wells Griffith
Former Senior Director for Energy and Environment on the National Security Council | Former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Energy

During the first Trump administration, Griffith served as the senior director for Energy and Environment on the National Security Council, as well as acting assistant secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Energy. He went on to be senior advisor and managing director to the CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation before working for FTI consulting.

Tristan Abbey
President of Comarus Analytics LLC | Former Director of Environment and Strategic Planning on the National Security Council

Abbey was the president of Comarus Analytics and has also served as a senior fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics and Distinguished Fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation Inc. (EPRINC). Prior to that, Abbey served as a senior policy advisor for strategy and economics for the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and as the director of energy and environment and director of strategic planning on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

Michael Ellis
Former Legal Advisor to the National Security Council under Trump

Ellis was general counsel of Rumble. He was on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration. He is also the general counsel of the House Intelligence Committee under Devin Nunes and was selected to be general counsel of the National Security Agency.

Joe Kent
Former Green Barret and Congressional Candidate

Kent is a former army special forces soldier, green beret, and CIA officer. He enlisted in the US Army as an infantryman when he was 18 years old. He is a two-time republican candidate for a congressional seat in southwest Washington State. His wife, Shannon Kent, was killed while serving in Syria in 2019. He remarried in 2023.

Rodney S. Scott
24^th Chief of the US Border Patrol

From 2020 to 2021 Scott served as the chief of the US Border Patrol, a division of Customs and Border Protection with over 20,000 agents. Before this role, he held the positions of chief patrol agent for the El Centro and the San Diego sector, anti-terrorism advisor to the CBP Commissioner, and the deputy executive director of the CBP’s Office of Anti-Terrorism.

Sean Curran
Former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division

Curran served as the assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division during the first Trump administrations. He started working for the Secret Service in 2001 as a special agent in the Newark Field Office. He was one of the agents who protected the President during the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Caleb Vitello
Assistant Director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs| Former White House Director of Interior Enforcement

Before Vitello’s current position at ICE as assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs, he served as chief of staff in ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). He joined ICE after his time at the White House as the director of Interior Enforcement.

Troy Edgar
Former Chief Financial Officer and Associate Deputy Undersecretary of Management for Homeland Security

Edgar, currently an executive at IBM, served three terms as the Mayor of Los Alamitos, California. Edgar also founded Global Conductor, a management consulting firm, serving as its president and CEO before serving for the first Trump administration. He hosts a podcast, Ameritocracy, and is a US Navy Veteran.

Andrew N. Ferguson
Commissioner of The Federal Trade Commission

Before starting his role as commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in April of 2024, Ferguson was the solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has also served as chief counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell and as a republican counsel on the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

Mark R. Meador
Former Advisor for Senator Mike Lee

Meador spent three years advising Senator Mike Lee, the ranking republican on the Senate antitrust subcommittee, before starting the law firm Kressin Meador Powers. Before his time with Lee, Meador was an attorney for the FTC from 2011 to 2016, and a trial attorney for the DOJ Antitrust Division from 2019 to 2021.

Casey B. Mulligan
Former Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors

Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, was a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at America First Policy Institute. Before that, he was chief economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Trump administration. In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago, Mulligan has taught at Harvard and Clemson University.

Bill Briggs
Former Acting Associate Administrator in the Office of Capital Access at SBA

Briggs was the first CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Association. During Trump’s first term, Briggs served in several roles at the Small Business Administration, first as a senior advisor, then as a deputy associate administrator, and finally as the acting associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access. He graduated with a BA from the University of Michigan.

Chris Stallings
Director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency         

Stallings spent the past four years as the director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Before joining the agency, he spent more than 12 years serving the Georgia State Patrol. Stallings attended LaGrange College.

Stephen Alexander Vaden
Former General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture

During Trump’s first term, Vaden was the general counsel of the Department of Agriculture, and a member of the Board of the Commodity Credit Corporation. After his time at the USDA, Vaden was appointed to serve as a justice on the Court of International Trade. Vaden operates his family farm in Union City, Tennessee.

Richard Fordyce
Former Administrator of the USDA Farm Service Agency | Former Missouri Director of Agriculture

Fordyce, the owner of Fordyce Farms, spent three years as the director for the Missouri Department of Agriculture before working as the administrator of the Farm Service Agency at USDA during the first Trump administration. After his time at the Trump administration, he served as the business growth director for Agriculture at Osborn Barr Paramore.

Luke Lindberg
President and CEO of South Dakota Trade | Former Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer at the Export-Import Bank

Lindberg, the president and CEO of South Dakota Trade, worked for the Export-Import Bank during Trump’s First administration. He earned the Distinguished Service Award for his time as chief of staff and chief strategy officer at the Export-Import Bank. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of District Export Councils. Lindberg is the son-in-law of Senate majority leader John Thune.

Michael Boren
Founder of Clearwater Analytics

Boren, the founder of Clearwater Analytics, is an Idaho investment consultant and republican campaign donor. He has founded six different companies and served as a volunteer fireman for Sawtooth Valley Rural Fire Department. He was also a board member of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation.

Dudley Hoskins
Counsel on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry | Former USDA Chief of Staff for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, and Senior Advisor to the Secretary

Hoskins served as counsel on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and as the USDA’s chief of staff for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, and senior advisor to the secretary under Trump. Before his time working for the Trump administration, he was public policy counsel for the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture.

Keith Sonderling
Former Vice-Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Former Acting Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor

Sonderling was the vice-chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor during the first Trump administration. After his time at the Trump administration, he stayed at the EEOC as a commissioner and served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School.

David Keeling
Former Director of Global Road and Transportation Safety at Amazon

Keeling was the vice president of global health and safety at UPS, where he worked for 18 years before working as the director of Global Road and Transportation Safety at Amazon.  

Wayne Palmer
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for the MSHA

Palmer was deputy assistant secretary for the MSHA during the first Trump administration. Recently, he has served as a cleared advisor for the Department of Commerce’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Critical Minerals and Nonferrous Metals (ITAC 5) and as the executive vice president at the Essential Minerals Association.

Daniel Aronowitz
President of ENCORE Fiduciary

Aronowitz was the president of ENCORE Fiduciary, an underwriter of insurance designed to protect employee benefits plans and trustees from fiduciary liability. Before that, Aronowitz was a partner at Shaw Pittman LLP and then the president of Ullico Casualty Company.

Penny Schwinn
Former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education

Schwinn served as the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education. She was the deputy commissioner of Standards and Engagement, deputy commissioner of Special Populations and Monitoring and chief deputy commissioner of Academics at the Texas Education Agency. Schwinn was also the assistant secretary of Education of Delaware.

Benjamin Black
Former Managing Director of Fortinbras Enterprises | Former Director of Osiris Acquisition Corp

Black was a managing director of Fortinbras Enterprises and director of Osiris Acquisition Corp. He served as a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations from 2015 to 2020. Previously, he was a senior portfolio manager at Knowledge University Holdings, and worked at his father’s firm, Apollo Global Management.

Michael Stuart
Former State Senator of West Virginia

Stuart, a former state senator from West Virginia, unsuccessfully ran for West Virginia attorney general in 2024. In 2016, Stuart ran President Trump’s campaign in West Virginia and then served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, Stuart was the chair of West Virginia’s republican party.

John Jovanovic
Chief Strategy Officer at Asplundh

Before his nomination, Jovanovic served as chief strategy officer at Asplundh Tree Experts, LLC. He has been a senior advisor to Concordia since 2019 and was the CEO of Nova Fleet from 2021 to 2024. Additionally, he served as managing director for the Western Balkans and Aegean at the US International Development Finance Corporation. He is the son-in-law of Dr. Oz and a graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton School of Business.

Kari Lake
Former News Anchor

Lake, a news anchor in Arizona, had a 27-year career in media. Starting off as a weather reporter at 12 News, she went on to join Fox 10 News in Phoenix. After leaving the station in 2021, Lake went on to run for governor and senator of Arizona.

Bill Pulte
Private Equity Executive

Pulte is the grandson of the founder of the Fortune 500 company, the PulteGroup. He is known for his philanthropic work on X, where he distributes and raises money for people in need.