Our team influences outcomes for our companies.

Shomik Dutta

Partner

Shomik is a veteran of both Obama Presidential campaigns and served as Special Assistant to the White House Counsel and as an Advisor to Federal Communications Chairman. BA from Williams College; MBA from Wharton Business School.

Betsy Hoover

Partner

Betsy served as National Digital Organizing Director in 2012 & co-founded 270 Strategies in 2013. She has been recognized by Business Insider as “at the forefront of political innovation” and was featured on Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30: Law & Policy” list.

Andrew McLaughlin

Partner

Andrew has served as Deputy CTO of the United States, partner at betaworks, CEO of Digg and Instapaper, senior exec at Medium and Tumblr, head of global public policy at Google, and Chief Policy Officer of ICANN. B.A. from Yale University; J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Sarah Eberhard

Vice President of Operations

Sarah spent the last 4+ years at 270 Strategies as the COO and General Counsel. Prior to 270, she spent 10 years at Jones Day, with a focus on fund formation, and four years as the GC of After School Matters, a large not-for-profit in Chicago. Sarah earned her BA from Colgate and her JD from Northwestern School of Law.

Teddy Gold

Vice President of Investment

Teddy’s background is in investment banking and software private equity. Most recently, he led Special Projects at MobilizeAmerica, an HGL portfolio company. He holds a BA in Political Science from Middlebury College.

Hillary Lehr

Vice President of Partnerships

Hillary Lehr has served as the VP of Client Success at Hustle, managed partnerships at Brigade and Causes.com, and spent five years innovating digital resources to scale nonprofit organizing campaigns. She earned BA and BS degrees from UC Berkeley where she serves as Board Vice President of the college alumni association.

Garvey Burrows

Associate

Garvey has worked in project management and client success at Fireside, a technology vendor to the U.S. House of Representatives. Previously, he served as the Corporate Relations Coordinator at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He holds a BA in Political Science and Global Studies from the University of Kansas.

Amani Zara

Digital Communications Strategist

Amani most recently worked on Pete Buttigieg’s campaign where she used many of HGL’s portfolio companies to implement a relational organizing strategy. Prior to that, she worked at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics as their digital communications specialist. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018.

Ron Klain

Chair of the Advisory Board

Ron Klain is EVP and General Counsel of Revolution LLC. Previously served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden, senior aide to President Obama, and Chief of Staff for VP Gore. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and BA from Georgetown University.

Yohannes Abraham

Former COO, Obama Foundation

Meg Ansara

CEO, 270 Strategies

Beth Bafford

VP of Syndications and Strategy, Calvert Impact Capital

Jeremy Bird

President, 270 Strategies

Catherine Bracy

Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative

Cheryl Contee

CEO, Do Big Things

Ron Conway

Founder, SV Angel

Matt DeBergalis

Co-Founder, Act Blue

Addisu Demissie

Campaign Manager, Cory 2020

Toby Fallsgraff

Managing Director, Campaigns, Do Big Things

Jon Favreau

Founder, Crooked Media

Jesse Ferguson

Democratic Strategist

Natalie Foster

Former Digital Director, OFA

Richard Frankel

Former Founder/President, Rocket Fuel

Kathleen Gasperine

Co-Founder & Principal, Paradigm PM LLP

Julius Genachowski

Former FCC Chairman and Managing Director at Carlyle

Danielle Gray

Partner, O’Melveny & Myers

Tyler Hagenbuch

Attorney, Perkins Coie

Stephanie Hannon

Chief Product Officer, Strava

Raffi Krikorian

Managing Director, Emerson Collective

John Lee

CTO, NGP VAN

Rebecca Leventhal

Former Director of Social Investment Team, Social Finance

Marlon Marshall

Founding Partner, 270 Strategies

Terrell McSweeny

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Keith Mestrich

President & CEO, Amalgamated Bank

Tamim Mourad

Serial Tech Entrepreneur

Scott Nathan

Founder, Atlantic Neptune Impact

Josh Nussbaum

Founder and CEO, The Movement Cooperative

Michael O’Neil

Director of Public Policy & Community Engagement, Vivid Seats

Derek Parham

Former Deputy CTO, Hillary for America

Deval Patrick

Former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Michael Podhorzer

Political Director, AFL-CIO

Jeff Potter

Technologist

Laura Quinn

Co-founder and President, Catalist

Harper Reed

Director’s Fellow, MIT Media Lab

Alex Roetter

VP Software, Kitty Hawk

James Rucker

Partner, Springboard Partners

Mike Schneider

Partner, Bully Pulpit Interactive

Lindsey Schuh Cortes

CEO, Democratic Data Exchange

Sonal Shah

Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University

Steph Speirs

Co-Founder and CEO, Solstice

Nellwyn Thomas

Chief Technology Officer/Chief Analytics Officer, DNC

Lynda Tran

Founding Partner, 270 Strategies

Stephanie Valencia

Co-founder, EquisLabs

Tom Wheeler

Former Chairman, FCC

Colin Vernon

Technologist and Product Lead

Tommy Vietor

Founder, Crooked Media

Bryan Whitaker

Chief Innovation Officer, TargetSmart

Buffy Wicks

Elected Official, CA State Assembly – 15th District

Mike Yang

Investment Advisor