August 11, 2016

EXPANSION OF TRUMP ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

(New York, NY) August 11, 2016 –Donald J. Trump is pleased to announce an expansion of his economic advisory team that will build off some of the greatest economic thinkers in business today. Mr. Trump continues to expand his economic team to help respond to the terrible economic shape the Obama-Clinton economy has created. The addition of these men and women represents a commitment to adding diverse thoughts to the Trump/Pence campaign. This group will continue to look for innovative ways to jumpstart and revitalize our struggling economy. Further additions will be made as the campaign continues to grow.

The newest additions to our economic team include, Diane Hendricks, Darlene Jordan, Betsy McCaughey, Brooke Rollins, Carla Sands, Anthony Scaramucci, Judy Shelton, Liz Uihlein, and Kathleen Hartnett White.

Mr. Trump is pleased to add these incredible individuals from across the economic spectrum to help get the American economy back on track.

Mr. Trump said of the new additions, “We are continuing to work every day to bring in the best and brightest minds to save our country’s economy. These new members of our team are some of the best economic minds around right now, and they will continue to bring new ideas to our campaign that will strengthen and grow our economy. We can finally Make America Great Again and ensure all Americans have a chance to succeed at the American Dream.”

View list of advisors' biographies here

TRUMP ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL ADDITIONS

1. Diane Hendricks. Hendricks is the chairwoman and sole owner of the building products distributor ABC Supply Co., Inc. She founded ABC Supply with her late husband, Kenneth, turning it into the largest wholesale distributor of exterior building products in the country. In 2016, she employed over 10,000 workers and sales exceeded $6.5 billion. Hendricks is also the chairwoman of Hendricks Holding Co., Inc. which includes a diverse portfolio of domestic and international companies in manufacturing, construction, recycling, pharmaceutical research and other various industries.

2. Darlene Jordan. Jordan is the Executive Director of the Gerald R. Jordan Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports education, health and youth services, and the arts. She is a member of Fordham’s Board of Directors and Co-Chair of Fordham’s successful $500 million Campaign. She currently serves on Fordham’s Executive Committee and is Chair of the Development and University Relations Committee and Co-Chair of the Financial Aid Campaign. Darlene served as a National Finance Co-Chair for Mitt Romney for President in 2008 and 2012. She also served as the State Finance Chair for Governor Rick Scott’s re-election campaign in 2014. Darlene is a former Assistant Attorney General for the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, where she served in the Insurance Fraud Division from 1996 to 1999.

3. Betsy McCaughey. McCaughey is a constitutional scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a public policy expert, and a former Lt. Governor of New York State. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Beating Obamacare, and its sequel, Beating Obamacare 2014. In 2004, McCaughey founded and is now Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (also known as RID), a nationwide educational campaign to stop hospital-acquired infections. RID has won legislation in over 34 states for public reporting of infection rates.

4. Brooke Rollins. Rollins is the President and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, one of the nation’s premier free market think tanks. Over the past decade, she has emerged as one of the nation’s most thoughtful and articulate defenders, in both media and policy, of the principles of liberty and limited government. Before joining the Foundation, Rollins served as Governor Rick Perry’s Deputy General Counsel, and later as his Policy Director.

5. Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci is the co-managing partner and founder of SkyBridge Capital, a global investment firm with around $12.5 billion in assets under management and advisement as of August 1, 2016. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Mr. Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001.

6. Carla Sands. Sands is Chairman of Vintage Capital Group, LLC, an investment firm founded in 2000 in partnership with her late husband, Fred Sands and its subsidiary companies Vintage Real Estate, LLC and Vintage Fund Management, LLC. In 2008 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Carla to the Board of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment. She is also the Chairman of The Blue Ribbon, an organization of five hundred women that supports the Los Angeles Music Center, its resident companies and produces the Children’s Festival each spring.

7. Judy Shelton. Shelton specializes in global finance and monetary issues. Dr. Shelton has been consulted on international economic/financial issues by national security officials at the White House and Pentagon. Judy Shelton was an economic advisor for the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform chaired by Jack Kemp. Dr. Shelton joined the Atlas Network in 2010, where she is Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Atlas Sound Money Project. Judy Shelton holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration, with an emphasis on finance and international economics, from the University of Utah.

8. Liz Uihlein. Uihlein is the Co-Founder of Uline, Inc. and serves as its President. A shipping and packaging company that has generated $3.6 billion in yearly sales for 2015 and projects over $4.0 billion for 2016, with 11 North American branches, over 30,000 products, and over 4,900 employees.

9. Kathleen Hartnett White. White is the Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. At the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Kathleen directs research and policy on energy, climate change, air quality, water quality & water rights, waste and endangered species. From 2001-2007, Kathleen White was Chairman and Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the second largest environmental agency in the world after the EPA. She has served on five Commissions including the Texas Water Development Board, Texas Economic Development Commission, and the Lower Colorado River Authority as well as the Journal of Regulatory Science.