Republican National Convention--Organization
03/15/04
RNC Committee
on Arrangements
Plans
and manages the Convention
Officers
announced on Jan. 31, 2003 at the RNC Winter Meeting in Washington, DC:
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Treasurer
Secretary |
David Norcross (New Jersey)
[Ellen Williams (KY)
resigned-govt. position.]
Mike Retzer (Mississippi)
Linda Shaw (North Carolina) |
Deputy
to the Chairman of the COA (announced Feb. 27, 2004) Mark Acton
Acton has been involved
in Republican Party politics for nearly two decades. He will assist Norcross
in planning for and managing the Convention.
COA Executive Committee:
Ed Gillespie, RNC Chairman - Ann Wagner, RNC Co-Chairman
- Sara Gear Boyd, RNC Secretary - Bob Kjellander, RNC
Rules Chairman - Blake Hall RNC Contests Chairman -
David A. Norcross, COA Chairman - Linda Shaw, COA Secretary
- Mike Retzer, COA Treasurer - Mike Duncan, COA General
Counsel
COA Subcommittee Chairmen:
Facilities
Program
Security
Transportation
Entertainment
Special Events
Housing
Tickets and Badges
News Media
Family and Youth
Technology
Volunteers
Administration
Members |
Charlie
Glazer
Alan Novak
Duane Acklie
Sandy Treadwell
Julie Finley
Rosie Tripp
Blake Hall
Martha Moore
Ann Wagner
Carolyn Meadows
Jack Meeks
Mary Jean Jensen
Travis Thompson
Jo McKenzie |
| Convention Manager and
CEO |
Bill Harris |
(announced Jan. 31, 2003)
Vice Chairman of Global USA and president of William D. Harris and Associates.
Involved in the planning and management of RNC conventions since 1984,
when he served as Sergeant at Arms. First convention attended was
in 1972.
| Deputy to the CEO |
Karen Keller |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Prior to joining the Convention staff, Keller served as Special Assistant
to the White House Budget Director. Before joining the Bush Administration,
she was a Senior Associate at Burson-Marsteller public relations/public
affairs firm.
| Chief Operating Officer |
Hector F. Irastorza, Jr. |
(announced Feb. 12, 2003)
Leaving position as Deputy Assistant to the President for Management and
Administration at the White House. Served as a member of President-elect
Bush's transition team. Previously, Irastorza was president and CEO
of Icon Solutions Incorporated. Vice president for corporate wide
programs and planning at Philip Morris Companies, Inc., 1992-97.
Served in the Reagan and Bush administrations.
| Director for the Office
of the COO |
Cathy Alix |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Before joining the Convention, Alix served as Special Assistant to the
President for Management and Administration at the White House.
| Director of Special Projects |
Harold Blakely |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Previously, Blakely served as a member of the Mississippi Bush-Cheney Finance
Committee for the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. He also was the Director of
Pharmacy for Delta Regional Medical Center for over 10 years.
O P E R A T I O N S
| Director of Operations |
Mike Miller |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Miller has worked on eleven straight Conventions. He served as a staff
member for the last nine Republican Conventions, and covered the two Conventions
prior as a journalist. Miller also operated Elkmont Productions,
a public affairs consulting firm.
P R O D U C T
I O N
| Executive
Producer |
David
Nash |
David J. Nash and Associates
| Entertainment Director |
Frank Breeden |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Breeden most recently served as the executive producer of the 33rd annual
Dove Awards. He also has produced numerous White House celebrations and
record albums.
D E L E G A T E
S E R V I C E S
| Director of Delegate Services |
Denise Dick |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Dick was Director of Housing for the 2000 Republican National Convention
in Philadelphia.
Housing
Transportation
| Director of Delegate and
Caucus |
Brian Noyes |
(announced July 1, 2004)
Since 2002 Noyes has served as a regional director for the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development in Atlanta. Previously he worked
as a consultant specializing in public relations, earned media and direct
voter programs in Kennesaw, GA. Deputy political director for campaign
operations at the Republican National Committee in Washington, DC,
April 2001 to March 2002. Worked as a government and public policy
consultant at the DCI Group in Columbus, Ohio from February 1999 to March
2001. Southeastern regional political director for Bush-Cheney 2000
in Austin, TX, overseeing campaign operations and programs in eight Southern
states. Noyes has also worked as a Victory '98 coordinator at the
RNC; as executive director and political director of the Georgia Republican
Party; and as regional director for Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-GA) in 40 Georgia
counties, where he was later promoted to serve as the liaison between the
Senate office and statewide political organization.
M E D I A
O P E R A T I O N S
| Director of Media Operations |
Chuck Fuqua |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
This is Fuqua's fourth Republican National Convention. Prior to joining
the 2004 Convention staff, he worked at the Department of Commerce in the
Public Affairs Department.
E X T E R N A L
R E L A T I O N S
| Director of External Relations |
Alicia Davis |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Davis served as Associate Director of Political Affairs in the White House
and on the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Before joining the campaign,
Davis worked for Governors Weld and Cellucci in Massachusetts.
C O M M U N I
C A T I O N S
| Communications
Director |
Mark
Pfeifle |
(announced March 17, 2004)
Immediately prior to joining the 2004 Convention, Pfeifle was Acting Communications
Director and Press Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
He served as Deputy Communications Director and Principal Deputy Press
Secretary for the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.
Pfeifle worked as a stringer for the Associated Press and managed KDRQ
Radio in North Dakota.
| Deputy
Director for Communications |
Natalie Rule |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Rule most recently served in the Office of the Vice President as Mrs. Cheney's
Press Secretary. She was Press Secretary for the 54th Presidential
Inaugural Committee and during the 2000 presidential campaign worked at
the Republican National Committee on the Victory 2000 communications team.
| Press Secretary |
Leonardo Alcivar |
(announced June 4, 2004)
A native New Yorker and former press aide to former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
Alcivar previously served under the Bush Administration as Deputy Communications
Director for the Department of Transportation.
| Director of Media Affairs |
Jennifer Foley |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Prior to joining the Communications team Foley was a Public Affairs Specialist
at the U.S. Department of State. From 2001-03 Foley served in several
positions in the White House including the Office of Presidential Personnel,
the Coalition Information Center and the Office of Global Communications.
| Associate Director of Regional
and Caucus |
Nicol Andrews |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Most recently, Andrews served as Press Secretary for the House Resources
Committee. Before Capitol Hill, she worked in the Communications
office at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
| Senior Writer |
Shannon Burkhart |
(announced June 4, 2004)
For the past year, Burkhart worked as Associate Director of Communications
for Policy at the Bush-Cheney '04 headquarters in Arlington, VA. Prior
to joining the re-election campaign, she served as Associate Director of
Communications at the White House.
| Spokesperson |
Rori Patrise Smith |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Smith was the Press Secretary and Outreach Coordinator for Congresswoman
Katherine Harris' campaign. Smith also worked as a television weather anchor
and television host for Delta Air Lines.
| Deputy Press Secretary
and Director for Specialty Media |
Judy Pino |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Originally from Miami, FL where she was a journalist for a Spanish-language
station, Pino moved to Washington, DC in 2002 to serve as a political appointee
for the Bush Administration at EPA as a Public Affairs Specialist and Hispanic
Spokesperson.
| Radio Liaison |
Gregory Chapin |
(announced June 4, 2004)
For the past six years Chapin produced news and talk radio for several
hosts, most notably Michael Savage in San Francisco. Chapin also
worked as a news and traffic anchor for Metro Networks.
| Deputy Press Secretary
of Specialty Projects |
Alyssa J. McClenning |
(announced June 4, 2004)
McClenning most recently served as Deputy Press Secretary for Congressman
John E. Sweeney and as a Press Assistant for Sweeney's re-election campaign.
| Media and Special Projects
Coordinator |
Alison Kogut |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Prior to being a part of the Convention staff, Kogut served as a legislative
assistant to Senator Pat Roberts.
| Media and Special Projects
Coordinator |
Ryan Connolly |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Before joining the Convention team, Connolly completed graduate work at
Stanford University and volunteered as a Site Advance Representative for
White House and the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign.
| Assistant to the Director
for Communications |
Lee Roupas |
(announced June 4, 2004)
Prior to joining the Convention team, Roupas worked in the Immediate Office
of the Secretary at the Department of the Interior, the Office of the Co-Chair
at the RNC, and the Office of the Speaker with the Honorable Dennis Hastert.
Max Everett, Director of Information
Technology and Chief Information Officer
A D M I N I S T R A
T I O N
| Director of Administration |
Wes Foster |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Foster recently served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency within the Department of Homeland Security. Foster also
served as Deputy Director of Treasury for the Bush-Cheney 2000 Campaign.
F I N A N C E
| Chief Financial Officer |
Jim Deleuterio |
| Director of Financial Services |
Heather Coquis |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Coquis recently was Director of Strategic Scheduling at the Environmental
Protection Agency. She also served as Deputy Controller to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's
re-election campaign and his Political Action Committee.
| Counsel |
Elizabeth Apisson |
(announced Feb. 27, 2004)
Previously, Apisson served as General Counsel of a New York City post production
company, a law clerk for the Department of Justice, and a Judicial Clerk
for a D.C. Superior Court Judge. She also served as Deputy Director for
three major donor programs at the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
prior to becoming an attorney.
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