Trump
for
America,
Inc.
(page
updated January 18, 2017)
Chairman Vice President-elect Mike Pence
(announced Nov. 11, 2016)
Vice
Chairs:
Congresswoman
Marsha
Blackburn
(R-TN)
Dr.
Ben Carson
New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie
Oklahoma
Governor
Mary
Fallin
Lieutenant
General
Michael
Flynn, USA (Ret.)
Former
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich
Former
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Congresswoman
Cynthia
Lummis
(R-WY)
Incoming
Deputy
National
Security Advisor Kathleen Troia
"KT" McFarland
Congressman
Tom
Reed
(R-NY)
Congresswoman
Cathy
McMorris
Rodgers (R-WA)
U.S.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
U.S.
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)
Executive
Committee:
Sheriff Butch Anderson
Congressman
Lou
Barletta
(R-PA)
Florida
Attorney
General
Pam Bondi
Safra
Catz
Congressman
Chris
Collins
(R-NY)
Tom Dadey
Congressman
Sean
Duffy
(R-WI)
Congressman
Trey
Gowdy
(R-SC)
Jared
Kushner
CEO of Kushner Properties from 2008. Owner of New York Observer weekly newspaper,
purchased in 2006. J.D. and M.B.A. from New York University,
2007. B.A. in sociology from Harvard College, 2003. Son of
real estate developer Charles Kushner; married Ivanka Trump in
2009. See: Steven
Bertoni.
"Exclusive
Interview:
How
Jared
Kushner
Won
Trump
The
White
House."
Forbes. Dec. 20, 2016
(online Nov. 22, 2016).
Nick Langworthy
Omarosa Manigault
Congressman
Tom
Marino
(R-PA)
Mike McCormack
Rebekah
Mercer
Runs the Mercer Family Foundation and serves on the boards of various conservative organizations. Mercer was a key figure in the Make America Number 1 (Defeat Crooked Hillary) super PAC and, during the primary campaign, the pro-Cruz Keep the Promise I super PAC. Daughter of Robert (Bob) Mercer, co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund. The Mercer family is a key invester in Cambridge Analytica, the data firm which was critical to Trump's win. See: Matea Gold. "The rise of GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer." The Washington Post. Sept. 14, 2016. and Kenneth P. Vogel. "The heiress quietly shaping Trump's operation." Politico, Nov. 21, 2016.
Steven Mnuchin
Served as the campaign's national finance chairman, announced May 5,
2016. Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Dune
Capital Management LP, a private investment firm (hedge fund); also
chairman
of Dune Entertainment Partners LLC. Co-founder (2004),
chairman, and CEO of OneWest Bank Group LLC, a bank holding company,
2009-15. CEO at SFM Capital Management, 2003-04. Partner at
Goldman Sachs, worked at the firm for 17 years to 2002 including as
executive vice president (from 2001), commodities division (1998-99)
and head of the mortgage securities department (1994-98). B.A.
from Yale University, 1985. Mnuchin's father, The New York Times notes, retired at a
general partner at Goldman, Sachs and owns C&M Arts.
Joe Mondello
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA)
Congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS)
Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FL)
Anthony Scaramucci
Served on Trump's economic policy council and finance
committee. Founder (2005) and a co-managing partner of
investment firm SkyBridge
Capital. Author of The Little Book of Hedge Funds
(2012), Goodbye Gordon Gekko and most recently Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How
Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success (Wiley, Oct. 31,
2016). Co-founder (1996) of Oscar Capital
Management. Worked at Goldman Sachs from 1989-96. J.D. from
Harvard Law School; B.A. in economics from Tufts University.
Native of Long Island, NY. twitter
Pastor Darrell Scott
Senior pastor and co-founder of New Spirit Revival Center Ministries Inc, launched in Feb. 1994 in Cleveland Heights, OH, and CEO of WCCD Radio1000 (the Scotts acquired the station in 2005). twitter
Kiron Skinner
Associate professor of international relations and
political science at
Carnegie
Mellon
University and director of CMU's Center for International
Relations and Politics; W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover
Institution. MA and PhD degrees in political science and
international relations from Harvard University; associate's degree in
communications from Sacramento City College, 1979. Co-author of Reagan, In His Own Hand (2001) and Reagan, A Life in Letters
(2003).
kironmemo.com twitter
John Sweeney
Peter Thiel
Entrepreneur and invester; also founder and chairman of Thiel Foundation. Partner in Mithril Capital Management (2012). Co-founder of Valar Ventures. Partner in Founders Fund (2005). Founder (2004) of Palantir Technologies. Founder of Clarium Capital Management, a hedge fund. Co-founder (1998) of PayPal, CEO to 2002. Founder (1996) of Thiel Capital Management. Derivatives trader at Credit Suisse; speechwriter for former Sec. of Education William Bennett. J.D. from Stanford University Law School, 1992; B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University, 1989. Author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.
Donald Trump Jr.
Executive vice president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization. B.S. in economics from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School. Eldest child of Donald and Ivana Trump (born Dec. 1977). twitter
Eric Trump
Executive vice president of development and
acquisitions at the Trump
Organization. Founder of the Eric Trump Foundation, supporting
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Third child of Donald and
Ivana Trump (born Jan. 1984). twitter
Ivanka Trump
Executive vice president of development and
acquisitions at the Trump Organization; she also has a fashion line and
has done modeling. B.S. in economics from the Wharton Business
School at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004, after two years at
Georgetown. Second child of Donald and Ivana Trump (born Oct.
1981). Author of The Trump
Card: Playing to Win in Work
and Life (2009) and forthcoming book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for
Success (March 2017). www.ivankatrump.com twitter
RNC Chairman and incoming White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus
Announced as White House chief of staff on Nov. 13, 2016. Elected RNC chairman on Jan. 14, 2011; re-elected Jan. 25, 2013 and Jan. 16, 2015; previously served as RNC general counsel; announced July 31, 2009 to Dec. 5, 2010. Chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, first elected in May 2007. Candidate for State Senate in 2004, losing to incumbent Bob Wirch (D) by 52% to 48%. Partner at Best & Friedrich LLP; joined the firm in 1998. J.D. from University of Miami School of Law, 1998. Worked in the Wisconsin legislature before law school. B.S. from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1994. Born and raised in Kenosha, WI. twitter
Trump Campaign CEO and incoming Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President, Stephen K. Bannon
Announced as Chief strategist and Senior Counsel to the President on Nov. 13, 2016. Announced as Trump campaign CEO on Aug. 17, 2016. On leave from position as executive chairman of Breitbart News Network. LLC. Partner of Societe Gererale, a large talent management company. Executive at Genius Products. Executive at American Vantage Media Corp. Worked for SG Cowan Securities Corporation, 1998-2000. CEO of Bannon & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in entertainment, media and communications, April 1990-July 1998. M.B.A. from Harvard University; M.A. in government from Georgetown University; undergraduate degree from Virginia. [source: Bloomberg]
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Senior Advisor to the Vice President-elect Nick Ayers
Senior advisor to Pence during the campaign.
Partner at Target Enterprises from March 2011.
Campaign manager
on Pawlenty for President, April-Aug. 2011. Transition director
at the RNC following the election of Reince Priebus as chairman in Jan.
2011. Executive director of the Republican Governors Association
in the 2008 and 2010 cycles (started in Jan. 2007). Before
joining the RGA, Ayers managed Gov. Sonny Perdue (GA)’s 2006
re-election campaign after serving as a senior aide to Perdue and
working on Purdue's 2002 campaign. Ayers started at Kennesaw
State University, but left freshman year to join Purdue's 2002 campaign
(he finished his degree in 2009). Worked at Georgia State
Bank. From Cobb County (Mableton), GA.
Senior Advisor to the Vice President-elect Josh Pitcock
Served as policy director to Pence during the campaign. Federal representative for the State of Indiana/Gov. Mike Pence in Washington, DC from 2013. Chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, legislative counsel for U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, 2005-13; also deputy chief of staff and general counsel for the House Republican Conference, chairman Mike Pence, 2009-10. Associate attorney at Parker, Hudson, Ranier & Dobbs, 2001-05. J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, 2001; bachelor's degree in political science and government from DePauw University, 1998.
Senior Advisor to the Vice President-elect Marc Short
Communications advisor to Pence on the campaign. Briefly a senior advisor to Marco Rubio's presidential campaign (reported Feb. 2016). President of Freedom Partners, the Koch Brothers' umbrella political network, to work on the campaign. Chief of staff for the House Republican Conference, then chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX). Executive director of the Reagan Ranch, and served as the executive director of Freedom Alliance from 1995-98. Director of the Virginia finance committee for the Oliver North for U.S. Senate campaign. Master’s degree from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, 2004; undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University, 1992.
Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway
Previously Trump campaign manager, announced Aug. 17,
2016; senior advisor to the campaign chairman/member
of the national polling team on July 1, 2016. President of The
Polling
Company/WomanTrend since 1995. Most recently worked for the
pro-Cruz super PACs as director of research and media outreach for
Trusted Leadership PAC and president of Keep the Promise I.
Practiced law but describes
herself as "a fully-recovered attorney." J.D. from The George
Washington University Law School; B.A. in political science from
Trinity College in Washington, DC. twitter
Executive Director Rick Dearborn
(announced Nov. 11, 2016) Chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL) from Jan. 2005. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Legislative director to Sen. Sessions for six and a half years starting in 1997. Worked for Sen. Trent Lott (MS). Director of congressional relations for the U.S. Senate for three years at the Heritage Foundation. Deputy staff director to the Secretary of the Senate Republican Conference. Worked at the NRSC for three years. 1987 graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Deputy Executive Director David Bossie
(reported Sept. 1, 2016, on leave from Citizens United) President of Make America Number 1 ("Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC") from June 2016. President of Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation; also president of Citizens United Productions, which has produced over two dozen documentaries; he has also authored four books. Chief investigator for the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, 1997-98. twitter
Director of Agency Landing Teams Reed Cordish
Principal and partner of The Cordish Companies, an
international real estate development and entertainment company (from
1998); also
president of Entertainment Consulting International (“ECI”), a
national entertainment and restaurant operating company he
co-founded (in 2004).
Tennis professional, 1996-98. B.A. from Princeton University.
Special Advisor on Presidential
Appointments Chris Liddell
Executive director of Romney
Readiness Project (R2P, Inc.), the Romney transition in 2012.
Vice chairman and CFO of General Motors, Jan.
2010-April
1, 2011. Senior vice president and CFO of Microsoft, May
2005-Dec. 2009. Senior vice president and CFO and earlier vice
president of finance at International Paper Co., 2003-05. CEO
(1999-2002) and CFO (1995-98) of Carter Holt Harvey, a New Zealand
forest products company. Investment banker; worked at Credit
Suisse in Boston for ten years. Masters in Philosophy from
Oxford; Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Auckland.
New Zealand native.
Special Advisor for Operations Michael Glassner
Deputy campaign manager (promotion to deputy campaign
manager announced March
2, 2016; initially served as political director, reported by various
news outlets on July 30,
2015) President of C&MT Transcontinental from April 2008;
clients have included McCain-Palin 2008 and SarahPAC (hired as chief of
staff to SarahPAC in Feb. 2011). Southwest regional political
director at AIPAC, Jan. 2014-July 2015. Senior vice president for
external affairs at IDT Corporation, July 2001-April 2008. Chief
of staff to the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, May 1998-July 2001. Senior advisor to Sen. Bob Dole, Jan.
1986-Jan. 2001. B.A. in political science from University of
Kansas, 1985. twitter
Special Advisor for Operations Jeff DeWit
COO of the campaign, announced July 26, 2016;
announced
as the campaign's Arizona state chair on Jan. 20,
2016.
Elected Arizona state treasurer on Nov. 4, 2014. Founder
(1999)
and
CEO
of
ECHOtrade.
A
market maker in financial futures contracts, DeWitt become
one of Smith Barney’s youngest fully licensed investment professionals;
he started
his
career
in
finance
in
1992.
Degree
in
business
administration
and
finance
from
University
of
Southern
California;
also
earned
an
accounting
degree.
Communications Director Jason Miller
Senior communications advisor on the campaign,
announced
June 28, 2016. Leading communications and digital consultant on
Cruz for President. Partner and executive vice president at Jamestown
Associates from
Jan. 2010. Executive at a communications firm. Deputy
director of communications in charge of rapid response and surrogate
speakers on the Rudy Giuliani campaign from April 2007 to 2008.
Deputy chief of staff to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
Campaign manager for Sanford's 2006 re-election campaign; he came to
the Sanford campaign after serving as campaign manager for Sen. George
Allen's 2006 re-election campaign through late 2005. In 2003-04
Miller was campaign manager for Jack Ryan's U.S. Senate campaign in
Illinois, and after that effort ended he worked on Tom Coburn's U.S.
Senate campaign in Oklahoma. Campaign manager on Ric Keller's
successful 2000 campaign for Congress in Florida's 8th CD, then served
as chief of staff to the Florida Congressman. Worked for Sen.
Slade Gorton (R-WA). Graduate of The George Washington
University. Native of Seattle, Washington. twitter
Deputy Communications Director Jessica Ditto
Deputy communications director on the campaign,
(announced Sept. 19,
2016).
Communications director to Gov. Matt Bevin (KY); started as
communications director for the Bevin-Hampton campaign in Sept.
2015. Director of education program operations for Connected
Nation, a nonprofit based in Bowling Green. Has worked for Gov.
Ernie Fletcher (KY), the Republican Party of Kentucky, and U.S. Sen.
James Inhofe (OK), 2008-09. Graduate of Asbury
University in
Wilmore. twitter
Deputy Communications Director Byran Lanza
Served as deputy communications director for
surrogates on the
campaign. Previously communications director at Citizens United.
National Press Secretary Hope Hicks
National press secretary on the campaign.
Started at The Trump
Organization in Aug. 2014. Account rep. at Hiltzik
Strategies. Bachelor's degree in English from
Southern Methodist University, 2010. Native of Greenwich,
CT.
Director of Rapid Response Steven Cheung
Director of rapid response on the campaign, announced
July 11,
2016. Director of
communications and public affairs at Ultimate Fighting Championship
from April 2013. Communications advisor to Lt. Gov. David
Dewhurst (TX), Sept. 2012-April 2013. Director of rapid response
on Dewhurst for Texas (U.S. Senate campaign), July 2011-Aug.
2012. Director of rapid response on Sharron Angle for Senate,
Aug.-Nov. 2010. Director of online messaging on Steve Poizner for
Governor, July 2009-June 2010. Writer at Solgence Consulting,
LLC, Jan.-July 2009. Administrative assistant on John McCain
2008/McCain-Palin 2008, May-Dec. 2008. Legislative and external
affairs assistant for the California Integrated Waste Management Board,
Aug. 2007-May 2008. Studied government and computer science at
Cal State Sacramento. twitter
Senior Communications Advisor Sean Spicer
Spicer worked closely with the campaign from the
latter part of Aug. 2016; RNC chief strategist and communications
director (announced as chief
strategist Feb. 2, 2015; announced as communications director Feb. 24,
2011). Co-founder and partner
at
Endeavor Global Strategies since Feb. 2009. Assistant United
States Trade Representative (USTR) for Media and
Public Affairs, 2006-09. Communications director for the House
Republican Conference, 2005-06. Communications director on the
House Budget Committee, 2003-05. Director of incumbent retention
at the NRCC, 2001-02. Communications director on the House
Government Reform Committee, 2000-01. Has worked for members of
Congress from New Jersey and Florida and on several local and
congressional political campaigns. B.A. in government from
Connecticut College, 1993. Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy
(Reserves). twitter
Senior Advisor Katrina Pierson
National spokeswoman on the campaign, announced Nov. 9, 2015. Spokesperson for the Tea Party Leadership Fund from Aug. 2014; owner of Pierson Consulting Group from June 2013; commentator/columnist. Founder of the Garland Tea Party (TX). Challenged U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (TX) in the Mar. 2014 Republican primary in CD-32. Healthcare administrator for Baylor Health Care System, 2009-11. Bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Texas at Dallas. twitter
Senior Advisor A.J. Delgado
Joined the campaign
in Sept. 2016. Conservative commentator and columnist.
Practiced law in New York City. J.D. from Harvard Law School;
B.A. in history from University of Florida. Daughter of Cuban
immigrants. Auther of Hip To Be Square: Why It's Cool To Be A
Conservative (2012). twitter
Director of Social Media Daniel Scavino Jr.
Director of social media on the campaign, announced
Feb. 11,
2016; started as a senior advisor. "Longtime Trump
confidant." twitter
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National Director of Policy Stephen Miller
Policy director on the
campaign (reported Jan. 25, 2016 as
senior policy advisor by
the Washington
Post's Robert Costa) Came to the campaign from position as
communications director to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL). Graduate
of Duke University, 2007.
Policy Implementation Executive Authority Advisor Carlos Diaz-Rosillo
Lecturer of government at Harvard University for more
than
eight years. Degrees in International Relations (B.A.) and Civil
Engineering (B.S.C.E) from Tufts University and Public Policy (M.P.P.)
and Government (A.M., PhD) from Harvard University.
Advance Director George Gigicos
Director of advance on the campaign. Founder
(Jan. 1999) and president of Telion
Corp. Lead advance
rep./event consultant for the Romney campaign, May-Nov. 2012.
Media relations/community relations for Brunswick Group working on BP
response in the Gulf Coast, May 2010-May 2011. Lead advance rep.
for the White House, June 2001-Jan. 2009. Lead advance
rep./consultant on McCain-Palin 2008. Lead advance rep. at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2006-08. Senior presidential
advance rep. on Bush-Cheney '04, Aug. 2003-Jan. 2005. Event
manager for the Orange County Convention Center, 1996-99. B.S. in
business administration/marketing from Birmingham-Southern College,
1990. twitter
Advance Lead Aaron
Chang
Director of advance on Huckabee for President, 2015-16. Events
manager at the Family Research Council, 2008-13. Lead advance
representative for the White House Office of Presidential Advance and
for Bush-Cheney '04, 2003-09. Manager of ballpark operations from
the Washington Nationals, 2005-08. Managing director of
credentialing for the 55th PIC, 2004-05. Deputy director of
credentialing for U.S. Department of State - G8 Summit Planning,
2003-04. COO of The Carmen Group, 2001-02. M.A. in
political management and B.A. in political science from The George
Washington University.
General Counsel Donald F. McGahn
Announced as Assistant to the President and White
House Counsel on Nov. 25; counsel on the campaign. Partner
at Jones
Day from 2014. Commissioner at the Federal Election
Commission, 2008-13. General counsel to the NRCC for nearly 10
years. J.D. from Widener University, 1994; B.A. from University
of Nortre Dame, 1991.
Note: Former CIA Director James Woolsey resigned as a senior advisor to
Trump on Jan. 5, 2016. >