Lobbying world Alex Gangitano
American Association of Nurse Practitioners named
Jon Fanning as its new CEO, effective March 1. He is currently chief strategy officer at the American Psychiatric Association, where he has worked for more than seven years. Before that, he spent over 13 years at the American Medical Association.
Laura Dove was promoted to manager of federal affairs at
Ford Motor Co. She joined Ford in May as director of transportation policy and previously was U.S. Senate secretary for the majority under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Ford also promoted
Rachel McCleery to a director position on the government relations team. She previously was Ford s government and public policy communications manager and before that was chief communications adviser and deputy policy director for Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. During the Obama administration, she was a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department.
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Vaxart has hired
Ricchetti Incorporated’s
Jeff Ricchetti to lobby on “legislative and regulatory policies regarding oral vaccine development and funding,” according to a disclosure filing. Vaxart is developing an oral vaccine for Covid-19, an effort that garnered scrutiny from both federal investigators and the SEC earlier this year after accusations the company may have overhyped its involvement in the White House’s vaccine accelerator Operation Warp Speed. And Ricchetti, of course, is the brother of incoming White House senior counselor
Curt Magleby, top lobbyist for Ford Motor Co. in Washington, D.C., is retiring after 32 years with the company on Dec. 31 just as the industry prepares for a new administration amid unprecedented transformation to all-electric vehicles.
He went from Exxon petroleum engineer to financial analyst for the electronics division at the Ford Rawsonville plant in 1988.
“I still remember I had my Audi 4000 I had bought in California,” Magleby, 61, told The Hill news. “As a new MBA, you get there early, you park in front and you try to do all the things right. I remember, it was about like day three, and one of my colleagues came up and said, ‘Curt, you might want to park the car in the other parking lot.’ ”