Clark for President, Inc.
Headquarters: Union Station - 1400 Markham St., 4th Fl., Little
Rock, Arkansas
Clark's late
entry, or as
one staffer put it "ridiculously late start," presented special
challenges
in building a campaign organization. One reason Clark entered
late
was that he needed to finish his book Winning Modern Wars.
At
the time of Clark's announcement on Sept. 17, other campaigns had been
building for months; many operatives had long since signed on to work
for
other candidates. In contrast, Budget Director Andy Kessler
stated,
"We didn't have an organization in place when we started."
Comptroller
Barry Wagman noted that the time compression "presented extraordinary
challenges
beyond the normal 'organized chaos' of a presidential campaign
environment
and reflected itself in almost every area" from accounting to
political,
finance, field operations, and so forth. What might take months
to
accomplish in a business operation Clark's team did in weeks. The
campaign attracted a fair number of Clinton veterans, many talented
people
who showed up at the Little Rock headquarters on spec., and activists
from
the draft movement. Clark's campaign endured an early shock as
campaign
manager Donnie Fowler made an abrupt exit after only three weeks.
A degree of chaos ensued; one staffer later opined that nobody was in
charge
for a period of about two months, another said that things settled down
by mid-October. Melding together two different cultures--campaign
veterans and draft activists--proved to be a challenge. Roles
evolved;
there were "all sorts of titles floating around." The campaign picked
up
a fair number of talented staffers from the campaign of Sen. Bob Graham
after he withdrew on Oct. 6. Vanessa Weaver, a former Clinton
staffer
whom Clark dubbed the "ExO," played an important role in holding things
together. Weaver eventually recruited Paul Johnson, Sen. Bob
Graham's
former campaign manager, to take the helm of Clark's campaign.
Keeping
in mind the fact that roles changed and that some people filled
multiple
roles and cannot be easily pigeon-holed, the listing below presents a
sketch
of the organization which ultimately comprised about 225 paid
staffers...
CHAIR
Segal served as
assistant to
the president in the Clinton-Gore administration from 1993 to 1996, and
then as the first CEO of the Corporation for National Service, where he
was responsible for the legislation that created AmeriCorps. He
also
launched the Welfare-to-Work Partnership, a non-partisan organization
of
business leaders committed to hiring and retaining former welfare
recipients.
Segal sits on the board of directors of Hasbro, AC Moore, and Citizens
bank, the board of advisors of Stonebridge International, LLC, and
several
non-profit organizations.
Assistant to the
Chairman
- Christy Kitchens
Administrative/General
Assistant - Sammye Taylor
(announced Jan. 17,
2004--"policy
and strategic guidance to the campaign's finance and political
operations")
Political veteran of the Carter and Clinton campaigns. She served as
chair
of the Coordinated Campaign in Florida in 1980, and served as Georgia
campaign
manager for the Clinton Gore '92. She is a veteran of many Georgia
campaigns,
including those of former Governor Roy Barnes, Congressman Buddy
Darden,
and Martin Luther King III. Parrish worked as a consultant for the DNC
and the Georgia Democratic Party throughout the 1980's and 1990's.
CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT
| Campaign
Manager |
Paul Johnson |
(announced Nov. 24, 2003 start
Dec. 1,
2003) Campaign manager for Sen. Bob Graham's presidential
campaign
through to its end in Oct. 2003. In 2002 Johnson served as senior
advisor on Mark Pryor's campaign in Arkansas, helping oust Sen. Tim
Hutchinson
(R). He has served as executive director of the DSCC. He
managed
Ted Muenster's 1990 Senate race against Sen. Larry Pressler in South
Dakota,
worked for Bob Kerry in 1988, and Tom Daschle in 1986. In 1984
Johnson
worked in several primary states for Walter Mondale's presidential
campaign.
He is a Minnesota native residing in Louisiana.
| President
and Treasurer ("ExO") |
Vanessa Weaver |
(Initially Deputy Treasurer;
recruited
Paul Johnson) Member of the Board of Directors of the
Export-Import
Bank of the United States, nominated by President Clinton July 1999 and
sworn in Nov. 1999. Served at the White House from 1994 to 1999
as
deputy assistant to President Clinton and deputy director of
presidential
personnel. From 1983 to 1994 she helped develop Engineering
Research
Associates, a high tech company in McLean, VA.
| Executive
Staff/Senior Advisor |
Carole Corcoran |
General Counsel and
Director
of Special Projects in the New York office of the Crisis Group since
its
opening in January 2001. Executive Vice President and General
Counsel
of Sanwa Securities (USA) Co. L.P, 1991 to mid-1999. Worked at
the
New York law firm of Seward & Kisser from 1983-1991 representing US
and foreign financial institutions and investment banks before federal
agencies and developing new products for the capital markets. JD
degree from New York University Law School, 1983 and BA degree from New
York University in 1979.
Executive
Staff - Murat Armbruster
Executive
Staff - Michel Zoghby
Executive
Staff - Ben Steinberg (performed a variety of different
functions on the campaign including researching special assignments,
volunteer
support, serving as an assistant to Carole Corcoran, and later
compiling
the daily briefing book for Gen. Clark). Prior to joining the
campaign
spent 10-plus years working in international development, specializing
in microfinance; managed microfinance programs in Kazakhstan, Armenia,
and Tanzania. Graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton
University, 1992.
| Special
Assistant to General
Clark/Assistant Treasurer |
Mark
Nichols |
Clark's top aide at
Wesley K.
Clark and Associates before he entered the campaign. Worked on Al
Gore's campaign in 2000.
| Director of
Administration
and Control |
Janet Abrams |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Most recently the Senior Director of the Corporate Executive Board
Company.
Adams has also served as a consultant to the Safe Tables Our
Priority.
She worked in numerous capacities in the White House from 1994 to
2000.
Executive Staff
- Mary Wholleb
COMMUNICATIONS
| Director of
Communications |
Matt Bennett |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Most recently, Bennett worked as Director of Public Affairs for
Americans
for Gun Safety. He served in
the White House from 1997-2001, as Deputy Assistant to the President
for
Intergovernmental Affairs, and before that as Trip Director to Vice
President
Gore. He served in various capacities on the Clinton/Gore
campaigns
in 1996 and 1992 and on the Dukakis campaign in 1987-88.
| Deputy
Communications Director
and Chief Speechwriter |
Josh Gottheimer |
(started Sept.
2003) Harvard
Law student (class of 2004). Edited Ripples of Hope: Great
American
Civil Rights Speeches. Worked as a speechwriter to President
Bill Clinton and a senior advisor to the United States Commission on
Civil
Rights. University of Pennsylvania graduate.
| Deputy
Chief Speechwriter |
Sarah Hurwitz |
(started late Sept.
2003)
Harvard Law student (class of 2004). Worked as a speechwriter for
Sen. Tom Harkin. A.B. from Harvard College, 1999.
Eve
Gerber,
experience includes work as a Slate editorial assistant.
Kathy
Roche
(speechwriting staff director and communications special
assistant)
Bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College,
2003.
| Travelling
Press Secretary |
Jamal Simmons |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Simmons most recently served as Press Secretary to Senator Bob Graham's
presidential campaign. He served as the Communications Director
for
Max Cleland in 2002, and as Deputy Communications Director for
Gore/Lieberman
in 2000. Mr. Simmons has also worked at the Department of Commerce and
as Special Assistant to Mickey Kantor at U.S.T.R.
| Press
Secretary |
Bill Buck |
(named on Dec. 5,
2003; previously
New Hampshire Communications Director for the Clark campaign-announced
on Oct. 23, 2003). Buck worked in New Hampshire for Clinton
for President in 1992, Clinton/Gore in 1996 and Gore 2000. Deputy
press secretary at the DNC through 2002; spokesperson for the
Gore/Lieberman
campaign in Florida and continuing through the recount, 2000;
spokesperson
for Domestic Finance at the Treasury Department, 1999; deputy
communications
director at the Commerce Department for Sec. Daley; press secretary for
Clinton/Gore in Memphis, TN, 1996.
Mary Jacoby-(served
initially as traveling press secretary and later as a
spokeswoman)
Left position as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times to
join
the campaign.
| Senior
Communications Counselor |
Chris Lehane |
Resigned as Senior
Advisor for
Communications to the Kerry campaign on Sept. 15, 2003. After the
2000 campaign Lehane was based in San Francisco, where he worked with
Mark
Fabiani. In 2000 (announced Oct. 27, 1999) Lehane served as press
secretary for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign. He moved over
to that campaign from his position as press secretary for the Office of
the Vice President, and previously served as the Vice President's
deputy
communications director. Worked as a special counsel for HUD
Secretary
Andrew Cuomo in 1997 and as special assistant counsel for the President
in 1995-96. Lehane is a native of Lawrence, Mass. and is a
graduate
of Amherst College ('90).
Also: Andrea
Evans
| Press
Secretary and Advisor
to Mrs. Clark |
Marion Kahn |
(Note: Kahn also
directed marketing
and branding. For example, she made sure all online appeals,
website,
and print materials reflected the core branding strategy; she also
served
as in-house producer with Hollywood producer, Linda Bloodworth, for the
Clark biopic, "American Son." Early on she developed standards
and
procedures for starting up the communications office. She
selected
Union Station as campaign headquarters and negotiated the
contract).
Founder and principal of Marion Kahn Communications, Inc., designing
strategic
communications programs for corporate and non-profit clients since
1990.
Kahn has scripted and directed a number of documentaries and authored
many
features and business articles. Director of communications for
Heifer
International. Editor for the Land Development Law
Reporter.
Worked as a researcher at the National Geographic Society.
Interned
for columnist Jack Anderson during the Watergate hearings.
Graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania.
| Associate
Director of Communications
(booking interviews) |
Maya Israel |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Israel served as a co-director of Locus
Media,
Inc., an art gallery and performance space in New York City
while also working as an Account Executive in a public relations
firm.
She has worked as an actress on stage, television, and film, including
appearances at Lincoln Center, and television's "Law & Order" and
"Third
Watch." Israel has also organized numerous charity-related events.
| Research
Director |
Ben Holzer |
Most recently worked
in the
office of U.S. Senator Harry Reid. Was the Research and Policy
Director
for U.S. Senate candidate Alex Sanders in South Carolina in 2002.
Additionally, he has worked in the research departments for the winning
campaigns of both of New York's senators, Charles Schumer and Hillary
Rodham
Clinton, and for the Democratic National Committee.
| Deputy
Research Director |
Jonathan Steinberg |
More Communications:
| Administrative-Daily
Clips |
Patrick
Buckley
Reid Cherlin |
| Scheduling
Liaison |
Clayton
Parker |
Jeff Dailey (press
management), Josh
Margulies (from DraftWesleyClark.com),
Amy Wojcicki (administration)
TECHNOLOGY
| Director of
Technology |
Josh Lerner |
(Creation and
maintenance of
the campaign's software, hardware and networking infrastructure).
Prior to Clark's
entry into
the race, Lerner led the effort to create Digital Clark and The
Clarksphere.
Co-founder and CEO of Alphanumerica, a Web consulting shop sold to
CollabNet
in 2000.
More Technology:
Josh Hendler -
PHP and Perl coder (took leave from position as Manager of Content
Management
for MLB.com in NY).
Jordan Higgins -
writing HTML; web designer and production associate.
Andrew Hoppin
- managing
national
campaign data (founded and led the largest local grassroots 'Draft
Clark'
organization in the country, New York for Clark; was working at N Space
Labs in NY).
Austin S. Lin-Perl
coder.
Keith Pike
Leonard Richardson -
worked closely with Cameron Barrett on Clark Community Network (worked
at CollabNet; founded Segfault.org, a Linux humor site).
Tony
Steidler-Dennison -
(open source author, PHP/MySQL developer from Iowa City).
Courtenay Teska -
project manager for IT quality assurance..."Bug Queen for the Tech
Team"
(from Racine, WI).
also:
Clark TechCorps --
involving volunteers to develop open source software: "provides
a framework for involving open source software developers in the Clark
campaign. Through the collaborative development of open source code,
developers
design and implement critical Clark campaign infrastructure while
extending
the availability of open campaignware/electionware."
ON-LINE OUTREACH
| Director of
Online Communications |
Eric Carbone |
(Also referred to
Executive
Producer of Web Content. Oversaw all editorial aspects of the
site
and co-headed the product development team that created such tools as
eBlocks,
Clark Community Network, Clark Recruiters, and the Clark Event Finder).
Carbone co-founded
the Real
Fans Sports Network, an interactive sports information and community,
in
1995. America Online acquired the company in 1997 and Carbone
continued
to work there.
| Online
Community/Official
Campaign Blogger |
Cameron Barrett |
Pioneered the 'blog'
format
for Web sites, launching CamWorld
on June 11, 1997. Barrett also founded the cms-list, a mailing
list
dedicated to the discussion of Content Management Systems.
Freelance
and contract work in New York as Cameron Barrett Consulting, starting
September
2001. Senior Information Architect/Design Technologist for
CollabNet,
Inc. and Alphanumeric, Inc. in New York. Interactive Designer for
Borders.com, Feb. 1998-Feb. 2000 (the site went up in October
1998).
New Media Instructor at Northwestern Michigan College, 1997.
Designed
his first web site in March 1994. B.S. in Telecommunications
Management
from Western Michigan University; A.A.S. in Visual Communications from
Northwestern Michigan College.
| E-Mail
Strategy/On-line
Communications |
Brent Blackaby |
Co-founded Draft
Clark 2004.
Experience prior to the campaign includes work as an engagement manager
for Delphinity, LLC, an online marketing consulting firm; Director of
Marketing
for Trigo Technologies, Inc., an enterprise software company; Senior
Product
Marketing Manager at E*TRADE; and consultant in McKinsey &
Company's
San Francisco office. Graduate of Harvard University with a B.A.
in Economics.
| E-Mail
Strategy/On-line
Communications |
Larry Huynh |
Co-founded Draft
Clark 2004.
Senior Product Manager for BestOffer.com; consultant in the San
Francisco
office of Mercer Management Consulting. B.A. in Biochemistry from
Harvard University.
| Director of
Internet Strategy |
John Hlinko |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Co-director of "DraftWesleyClark.com." Hlinko's career has
focused
on "guerilla marketing" efforts. He has also worked as an investment
banker,
campaign manager, dotcom marketing director, and a professional comedy
writer. B.A. from Wesleyan University and M.A. in public policy
from
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
| Special
Assistant, Technology
and Online Communications |
Suzanne Munson |
More On-line
Outreach:
Jeremy Kratz, Jason
McIntosh
Also: Jon
Rubin and Thomas Gensemer -direct response marketing/online consulting
POLITICAL
| Political
Director |
Lara Bergthold |
(Started
in travelling/advisory role in early Oct. 2003) Was a political
and
public relations consultant--Act III Communications. Is a
co-chair
of the Board of People for the American Way; also described as
political
advisor/aide to Norman Lear. Served as executive director of the
Hollywood Women's Political Committee. Graduate of U.C. Berkeley.
Bill Burke-(Constituency
Outreach) Director of Special Projects at the Democratic National
Committee. Former labor organizer.
Greg Caplan-(Jewish
Outreach) Served as Assistant Director of the American Jewish
Committee's
office in Berlin, Germany. Doctorate in modern European history
from
Georgetown University; Master of Arts degree in German and European
Studies,
also from Georgetown.
Kety Esquivel-(Hispanic/Latino
Outreach) Worked for three years with Eastman Kodak Company's
United
States, Canada and Latin American regional operations, coaching
executives
on issues of human capital and diversity. Three years in China
working
in higher education and management and consulting. Graduate of
Cornell
University. A native of Rochester, New York.
Hillary Gross-(Environmental/Woman's
Outreach) B.A. in Public Policy from Brown University. J.D.
from UC Hastings College of the Law.
Kymara Seals-(African-American
Outreach) Deputy
state
director for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor starting in 2003. Base Vote
Director
for the Arkansas Democratic Party's Coordinated Campaign in 2002.
Arkansas State Director for the NAACP National Voter Fund in
2000.
Graduate of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff with a B.A. in
political
science, 1994. Eight-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Also
Carol Willis, a longtime aide to Clinton who served as Director of
Community
Services at the DNC, helped out, although more in a consulting role.
Mark Seifert-(GLBT
Outreach) Joined
the
Federal Communications Commission in 1996. Worked four years in
private
practice. J.D. from the University for Virginia. From
Birmingham,
AL.
Larry Weatherford-(Veteran's
Outreach)
Democratic nominee against Rep. J.C. Watts (OK-4) in Nov.
2000, obtaining 31.2% of the vote.
Jeff Hauser-(American
Indians,
highlighting Clark's Kosovo experience) Came to the campaign from
two years in the Attorney General's Honors Program at the U.S.
Department
of Justice's Antitrust Division, having been hired under Attorney
General
Janet Reno. Led a legal research team on the Seminole and Martin
County cases during the Florida post-election litigation.
Graduate
of N.Y.U. Law School and Harvard College.
Soroush Shehabi-(Left
in November) Prior to the campaign worked as a trial attorney at
the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environment Enforcement Section.
Three years as an associate at the Los Angeles firm Christensen, White,
Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser & Shapiro. Clerked for a year at
DOJ in San Francisco. J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law,
1994.
Worked for four years on Wall Street. Graduate of Harvard,
1987.
| Director of
Ballot Access
and Delegates |
Shelly Loos |
Served
as MW regional desk for Gore's Leadership '98 political action
committee;
field person for Gore campaign in southeastern Iowa for the Iowa
caucuses
starting Oct./Nov. 1999; then to California; ran the March 21 Illinois
primary campaign; convention floor manager at the Democratic National
Convention
in L.A. (two months working on floor operations); returned to Illinois
in late August 2000 as state director for the fall campaign.
(Jim Carey-
Northern
Virginia resident. Headed the DNC's Compliance Assistance
Commission,
the predecessor to ballot access and delegate selection, under Chairman
Paul Kirk).
| Director of
Strategic Targeting
(lists-negotiating, manipulating, upkeep) |
Justin Levitt |
("managed the development and
implementation
of a...web-based voter information tool supporting ten states")
Spent
two years as a management consultant in the Chicago headquarters office
of McKinsey & Company, Inc.. Served as a law clerk to Judge
Stephen
Reinhardt in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Holds
graduate degrees from Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School
of Government, and a baccalaureate from Harvard College.
FIELD
| National
Field Director |
Craig Varoga |
(Started mid-Nov. 2003)
Principal
partner of Varoga Rice & Shalott, a Houston-based political
consulting
firm he co-founded in 1995. Managed the Texas Truth Squad in 2000
for the Democratic National Committee and the Gore-Lieberman campaign;
served as national director of state research in 1996 for the
Clinton-Gore
re-election. Varoga has managed campaigns throughout the country
for Senate, Congress, lieutenant governor, state treasurer and mayor,
and
served as communications director for U. S. Senator Harry Reid.
Graduate
of Princeton University and native of Pittsburgh, PA.
| Deputy
Field Director (phones
and mail) |
Chai
Komanduri |
| Deputy
Field Director (NH
desk/all around utility guy) |
James
Johnson |
Midwest
Political Director
and Grassroots Mobilization
14 states -
IA, OK, ND,
MO, MI, WI, MN, OH, TX, KS, IL, IN, NE, SD. |
John
Oeffinger |
[in the closing
weeks the grassroots
mobilization took high priority because tools like eBlock calls and
letters
were launched.] Most recently was co-founder of DraftClark2004
and
TexansForClark. Co-led the Protect The Vote program for Texas
Democratic
gubernatorial nominee Tony Sanchez and the 2002 Texas Coordinated
Campaign.
| Northeast
Political Director |
Elizabeth Caputo |
Worked for Caroline
Kennedy
at the New York City Department of Education; worked on the 2002
gubernatorial
race in New York. Started her career at Goldman Sachs as a
municipal
finance analyst, structuring and marketing financial products for city
and state governments. B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard
College,
1994 and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
| South/Southeast
Political
Director |
Paul Neaville |
MPA in Public
Administration
from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, 2002. Advance
staffer
for Gore in the 2000 campaign.
| West
Political Director |
Alexandria ("Lexi")
Marcus |
Previously served as
Western
Political Director on Bob Graham's campaign.
More
Political/Field:
Susan Altrui-(Political
and Field; went to New Hampshire and then Michigan)
Native Arkansan;
graduate
of Arkansas State University.
Peter Shakow-(Started
Sept. 21, 2003. Shakow was Deputy Political Director in Little
Rock;
in late December he went to Wisconsin and directed the campaign
there)
Before joining the campaign Shakow worked as a lawyer in Los Angeles
for
four years. He worked in Political Affairs at the White House,
1993-94,
and worked on Clinton/Gore '92 in Texas. Shakow earned his
undergraduate
degree in History from Brown in 1992, and his law degree from the
University
of Texas at Austin.
James Eby, Fatima Khan
Also: Within 24
hours of Rep.
Dick Gephardt's withdrawal following the Iowa caucuses, the campaign
picked
up 39 field organizers who had worked for the Missouri congressman
there;
Gephardt's Iowa caucus director John Lapp also joined the Clark
campaign
for the last couple of weeks.
| Policy
Director |
Jason Furman |
Visiting Lecturer in
economics
at Yale University and Columbia University. An economic advisor
to
the Gore campaign. Served as a staff economist at the Council of
Economic Advisers and Special Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy
in the Clinton Administration. Also, Senior Economic Adviser to
the
Chief Economist of the World Bank. Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard
University.
Served as research
director
of the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign in Washington, DC.
Previously a senior researcher in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at
The Brookings Institution, 1998-2001). Also worked on the
Gore/Lieberman
foreign policy team. Master's from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University; bachelor's in political science from the
University
of the South in Sewanee, TN.
| Deputy
Policy Director |
Chris Kofinis |
Formerly a professor
at the
Department of Political Science at California State University,
Northridge,
and the School of Public Administration, at California State
University,
Northridge. He holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in
Public
Policy from Claremont, an MA in Political Science from the University
of
Nevada, and a BA with Honors from Queens University. Dr. Kofinis
is the co-author (with Dr. Stella Theodoulou) of "The Art of the Game,"
an exploration of the American political and policy process (October
2003).
He did some work for DraftWesleyClark.com.
More Policy:
Terrell McSweeny, Peter Stevenson,
Gabriel
Wildau.
FINANCE
| Finance
Director |
Diana Rogalle |
(Announced Oct. 10,
2003)
Served as Finance Director for the DSCC, starting in May 2001, after
working
as DSCC Director of Campaign Services. Rogalle has also served as
finance director for Sen. Byron Dorgan and Tom Strickland.
| Deputy
Finance Director |
Tom Perron |
Worked at the DSCC,
on Hillary
Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, and for Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Arkansas and the Deep South
- Chris
Kell
Florida and Texas - Ben
Eley
(Assistant: David Robinson)
California and the West
-
Diane Hamwi (lead), Mike Stanifer (deputy)
(Assistant: Rebecca Gilden)
New York - Lenny Carr
(lead),
Barbara Layton (senior advisor), Dennis Chang (deputy)
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
-
Stephanie Berger and Rachel Hirschberg
Midwest - The
Competence Group: David Rosen and Tony Chang
More Finance:
Chris Bolyai, Erika Boyd, Stephanie
Leifer,
Laila Plassey, Rebecca Rios, and (DC
some consulting) Mary Pat Bonner.
SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE
| Co-Directors
of
Scheduling |
Catherine Grunden
Holly Johnson |
Grunden
served as Director of Scheduling and Deputy Campaign Manager for Gore
2000.
She served in the Clinton Administration as Special Assistant to
Secretary
Henry Cisneros at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and
as
Director of Scheduling and Advance for Secretary Rodney Slater at the
Department
of Transportation. Various capacities on the Clinton/Gore
Campaigns
in 1996 and 1992 and 1992 presidential transition team. Most
recently,
Grunden served as a consultant at Southern Strategy Group in Little
Rock.
She is a native of Arkansas and resides in Little Rock.
Johnson was
one of
General Clark's executive assistants at Stephens Group, Inc. and then
his
personal assistant and office manager at Wesley K. Clark and
Associates.
Johnson is a graduate of John Brown University where she earned a
Bachelor
of Science in organizational management.
| Director of
Advance |
Robert McLarty |
Most recently
Director of Advance
for the Graham for President campaign. Previously Tennessee
political
director for Al Gore's political action committee, Leadership
'02.
Directed Gore's advance efforts during the 2000 Iowa caucus campaign.
| Deputy
Director of Scheduling
and Advance |
Molly Buford |
In 2000 served as an
assistant
to Gore-Lieberman chairman William Daley.
| Director of
Press Advance |
Sunny Gettinger |
Associate Director
of Press
Advance for Gore 2000. Graduated from Yale in 1999 with a degree
in English. From Madisonville, Tennessee.
| Director of
Surrogate Scheduling |
Marissa Luzzatto |
Served as Deputy
Policy Director
on Bob Graham's presidential campaign. Special Assistant to the
President
and Deputy Director of Presidential Advance for the White House (one of
two), 2000-01.
| Scheduling
for Mrs. Clark |
Kevin Weaver |
Advance: Dan Mintz, Will
Pepik,
Sarah Scanlon
More Scheduling and Advance:
Ian Alberg, Joe Clark, Keith
Griffin,
Crystal Hatfield, Mariah Hattah, Jack Katy, Clark Jennings, Connie
Larossa,
Mary McGurn, Duke McLarty, Melissa Moody, Tom O'Brian, Nelson Peacock,
Jon Solomon, Jessie Walker, Rob Walker.
ACCOUNTING
| Comptroller |
Barry E. Wagman, CPA |
(started in Little
Rock Oct.
27, 2003; directing all financial operations) Private sector experience
includes chairman of ISEC World Trade Group and chief financial officer
of Image Entertainment, Inc.. Government
experience from 1977-81 includes director
of the Office of Enforcement Policy and Planning in the U.S. Department
of Energy, special assistant to the Director General of the U.S.
Foreign
Commercial Service, and consultant to the Director of Enforcement of
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. National compliance
director of the Carter/Mondale '76 general election presidential
campaign. Chief financial officer of the Brown for President
campaign. Financial roles within several congressional and state
campaigns. Author of The
Democratic
Party Campaign Treasurer's Handbook, the first text ever written on
political accounting, endorsed by the DNC in 1975. B.S. in
accounting from
the
University of Southern California.
Ann Kamps-initially
prepared the checks (paid the bills) prior to arrival of Barry Wagman;
subsequently prepared data for the payroll and compliance documentation.
Joan Vehik-Deputy
Comptroller -started on the campaign in Dec.; accounts payable and bill
review.
| Budget
Director and Post-Campaign
CFO |
Andrew Kessel |
(Kessel "wore many
hats during
the campaign." He started out in IT and played a key role early
on
in developing the infrastructure and getting the campaign up and
running;
he "had the checkbook." In October he built a spreadsheet that
mapped
out a daily budget for the campaign into February 12, and he
coordinated
with Paul Johnson to see that the campaign kept on track. After
the
campaign he oversaw winding down activities).
A graduate of the Wharton
School, Andy Kessel spent 17 years on Wall Street, with Citibank
Capital
Markets, Kidder Peabody and Barclay's de Zoete Wedd Securities where he
was a managing director in charge of Non-Government Securities trading
in the U.S.. In 1998 he moved to Arkansas and began a management
consulting business focusing on financial and technology
businesses.
Clark for President was his first foray into the political world.
More Accounting:
Annette Robinette, Jule Couch CPA.
OPERATIONS
| Correspondence |
Aaron Ament |
Experience includes
work as
a researcher for Stan Greenberg and James Carville at Democracy Corps
and
for President Clinton in his Harlem, NY office. Prior to that
Ament
also worked for Rep. Ron Kind, the American Bar Association, Rep. Jan
Schakowsky,
and the Chicago Tribune as an intern. He earned bachelors and
masters
degrees in political science from Northwestern University in Evanston,
IL.
| Volunteer
Management |
Paul Dodds |
(Helped
recruit, coordinate and maximize value added by local volunteers;
established
correspondence department; assisted IT department in defining
contact-tracking
software needs; established procedures to close down regional
offices).
International consultant and policy advisor, including experience
managing
privatization and economic reform programs in Germany and the former
USSR.
Corporate and real estate attorney. Harvard Law School, 1981;
undergraduate
degree from Columbia College, 1978.
| organized
volunteers for
phone answering, phone banking and mailings |
Shelley Adams
Patti Cogdell |
| managed the
headquarters
building |
Ellen Bruce |
More
Operations:
Barry Jefferson.
LEGAL
| General
Counsel |
William J. Farah |
(Succeeded
William Oldaker) Partner at Oldaker, Biden & Belair,
LLP.
Previously an attorney with the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, where he had principal responsibility for that firm’s
Political
Law practice. J.D. from American University’s Washington College
of Law in 1989.
| Deputy
Treasurer (Initially
General Counsel and Treasurer) |
William C. Oldaker |
Founding partner of
the National
Group (Jan. 2002). Founder and managing partner of Oldaker, Biden
& Belair, LLP. Formerly a partner at Manatt, Phelps and
Phillips.
General counsel and treasurer to the Kennedy for President Committee,
1979-80.
Served as General Counsel of the Federal Election Commission,
1975-79.
LL.B. from the University of Iowa in 1966.
More Legal:
Jeff Priebe, Blake Rutherford.
MORE (not in any
particular order)
| Chief of
Staff to Mrs.
Clark |
Page Atkins |
Personal
Traveling Assistant
to Gen. Clark (bodyperson)
|
Amad
Jackson |
Prior to joining the campaign
Jackson
was working as a television, film, and theater actor in Los
Angeles.
Graduate of U.C. Berkeley, 1999.
| Trip
Director |
Stacey Rubin |
| Traveling
Advisor |
Gene Caulfield |
(from about late
October 2003)
Clark's brother-in-law. Formerly worked for Reuters. From
New
Jersey.
| Traveling
Advisor |
William Halter |
(early on, in
Sept.-Oct. 2003)
Served in the Clinton administration as Deputy Commissioner and Acting
Commissioner of Social Security, and earlier, for six years, as Senior
Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget. Selected as a
Rhodes
Scholar and a Marshall Scholar; Master of Philosophy degree in
Economics
from Oxford University, 1986. A.B. in Economics and Political
Science
from Stanford University, 1983.
see also: Partial
list of Clark for President staff
SENIOR ADVISORS
| Senior
Advisor |
Mark Fabiani |
Fabiani works as a
crisis management
consultant based in La Jolla, California (put another way he provides
"strategic
advice and tactical execution to companies and individuals facing
complex
financial, marketing, communications and legal challenges."
Deputy
Campaign Manager for Communications and Strategy for Al Gore's 2000
presidential
campaign. Special Counsel to President Bill Clinton reponsible
for
scandal damage control. Served four years as Deputy Mayor of Los
Angeles and Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley.
Graduated
Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1982 after earning a bachelor's
degree
in Philosophy from the University of Redlands.
Ron Klain
Chief of Staff to
Vice President
Gore, November 1995-1999. Counselor and Chief of Staff to
Attorney
General Janet Reno. Associate Counsel to the President, directing
judicial selection efforts. Worked on the Clinton/Gore campaign
as
Washington Issues Director and helping with debate prep. Chief
Counsel
for the Senate Judiciary Committee, July 1989-July 1992. Law
Clerk
to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White during the 1987 and 1988
terms.
Much more campaign and Capitol Hill experience. Graduate of
Harvard
Law School, magna cum laude, 1987, and of Georgetown University, summa
cum laude, 1983.
| Senior
Foreign Policy Advisor |
James P. Rubin |
(announced Oct. 27,
2003 - unpaid)
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from January 1997 to
May
2000. From May 1993 until 1996, Rubin served as Senior Adviser
and
Spokesman for U.S. Representative to the United Nations Madeleine K.
Albright.
Prior to joining the Clinton administration, Rubin worked on the U.S.
Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations from 1989 to 1993. He was the
research
director for the Arms Control Association from 1985 to 1989.
Rubin
received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Columbia
University
in 1982 and a master's degree in international affairs in 1984.
| Senior
Economic Advisors
(announced Dec. 5, 2003 - unpaid) |
|
Michael Spence - Nobel
Prize-winning former Dean of Stanford Business School.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson -
former
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors and former Director of the
National
Economic Council.
| Senior
Director for Congressional
and Public Liaison |
Thurgood Marshall, Jr. |
(announced Nov. 5,
2003 - unpaid)
Partner at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman. Assistant to
the
President and Cabinet Secretary (liaison between the President and the
agencies of the Executive Branch) from 1997 to 2001. Director of
Legislative Affairs and Deputy Counsel for Vice President Al
Gore.
A counsel with the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Committee on
Commerce,
Science & Transportation, as well as the Governmental Affairs
Committee.
Marshall obtained both his J.D. and his B.A. from University of
Virginia.
Congressional
Relations
Team
Peter
Goelz
of APCO Worldwide
Steven
Palmer
of Van Skoyoc Associates
Daniel
C. Tate
of Capitol Solutions
Tracey
Thornton
of Farragut Consulting
CONSULTANTS
President of Peter
D. Hart Research
Associates, Inc.
| Media
Consultant |
Joe Slade White &
Co. |
National Steering
Committee
...provides guidance
on major
policy and strategic issues of the Clark campaign, organizes leaders
across
the country for Clark and advocates for the campaign.
| Chairman of
the Steering
Committee |
Mickey Kantor |
Currently a partner
at Mayer,
Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP. Secretary of Commerce, 1996-97.
United States Trade Representative, 1993-96. Worked on the
Clinton
transition. National Chair of Clinton/Gore '92. Founded the
Los Angeles Conservation Corps. Managed Sen. Alan Cranston's 1974
re-election campaign. Staff coordinator for R. Sargent Shriver,
Democratic
vice-presidential candidate, in 1972. Practiced law for 17 years
at Manatt, Phelps, Phillips and Kantor in Los Angeles. Law degree
from Georgetown University Law Center; four years as a naval officer;
bachelor's
degree from Vanderbilt.
Co-Chair: Ambassador
Andrew Young
(announced Dec. 21, 2003)
Co-Chair: Congressman Charles
Rangel
(announced Dec. 21, 2003)
Vice Chair (Southeast
campaign
coordination): Gordon Giffin (announced Jan. 17, 2004)
Former Ambassador to
Canada,
is a veteran of both Georgia and national politics. He was treasurer
for
Sam Nunn's Senate campaign and Georgia chair of the Clinton-Gore '92
and
'96 campaigns. He also currently serves on the Council on Foreign
Relations,
the Board of Trustees for the Carter Center and the Board of Advisors
of
the Woodrow Wilson International Center.
Vice Chair: Johnny Hayes
- finance chairman of the Gore campaign in 2000 and as finance chair
for
Gov. Phil Bredesen in 2002
Congressman Rahm
Emanuel
(IL)
Lt. Governor Barbara
Layton
(WI)
Laura Tyson
- former Clinton National Economic Advisor
Jim Hodges
- former Governor of South Carolina
Also:
Ted Sorensen
- former
special counsel and advisor to President Kennedy (announced Dec. 19,
2003).
Dr. Mary Frances Berry
- Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and a professor
of history at the University of Pennsylvania (announced Jan. 4, 2004).
Yolanda Caraway - former
Deputy Chair of the DNC under Paul Kirk, senior adviser to the late Ron
Brown, Vice-Chair of the 2000 DNC Convention Site Selection Committee
and,
currently, a member of the Standing Committee on Resolutions (announced
Jan. 22, 2004).
legal policy
advisor to the
National Steering Committee:
Bob Butterworth - served
as Florida's Attorney General for 16 years (announced January 23, 2004).
former
| Chief
Operating Officer |
Ambassador Richard Sklar |
(key role in
starting up the
campaign, return to California in late November 2003) Sklar has
held
a wide range of senior positions in government and the private
sector.
In April 2001 Gov. Gray Davis appointed him head of "The Governor’s
Generation
Implementation Taskforce" He served the Special Representative of
the President to promote economic reconstruction and the development of
market economies in Southeast Europe, 1999-2001; as Ambassador to the
United
Nations, 1997; and as the President's Special Representative in Bosnia
for Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords, 1996-97. Earlier
in his career, he served as president of O’Brien Kreitzberg, a
San
Francisco construction management company, eventually sold.
He was General Manager of San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission,
1979-83 and Director of Capital Projects for the city, 1976-83.
After
graduating from Cornell with a degree in mechanical engineering
Sklar
founded a manufacturing firm and served as president and CEO until it
was
sold in 1973.
| National
Press Secretary |
Kym Spell |
(September 18, 2003,
returned
to New York November 2003 where she helped as a liaison to the
entertainment
industry) Spell served as New Hampshire Communications Director
for
John Kerry's campaign for one month, Aug. 18-Sept. 18, 2003 before
leaving
to join the Clark campaign. She has run her own public relations
firm, Spell Communications, LLC, in New York for the past three
years.
Spell served as deputy national communications director for the
Gore-Lieberman
campaign in 2000; communications director for John Edwards 1998 Senate
campaign; communications director for Congressman David Price (D-NC)
from
1997-98; and assistant press secretary for Gov. James Hunt (D-NC) from
1994-96.
Donnie Fowler
Served as campaign
manager
from the inception of Clark's campaign but left abruptly after about
three
weeks.
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