# Revolving Door Roster The person-by-person ledger of the K Street [[Revolving Door]] — who moved between government and the influence industry, in which direction, and what they carried. Seeded from the [[Lobbying Hub]] top-50 census (personnel verified per firm, 2026-07); grows as the census deepens and new transaction-tied moves surface. For the conceptual framework (the four doors), see [[Revolving Door]]; for the defense-tech personnel map, see that page's tables. This ledger records only *documented* moves. The [[Cooling-Off Period]] page explains why the law barely slows any of this; [[Shadow Lobbying]] explains why some of the biggest movers never appear in lobbying registrations at all. --- ## Door 4 — the reverse door: K Street → power The door that matters most right now: lobbyists entering the government their former clients lobby. | Person | From (firm) | To (government) | Year | |--------|-------------|-----------------|------| | [[Susie Wiles]] | [[Ballard Partners]] (partner to 2020) | White House Chief of Staff | 2025 | | [[Pam Bondi]] | [[Ballard Partners]] (lobbyist 2019–2025) | U.S. Attorney General | 2025 | For the parallel industry→appointee flow (Thiel network, defense tech: Vance, Kratsios, Sacks, O'Neill, Barbaccia et al.), see the personnel map on [[Revolving Door]]. ## Door 1 — legislators → K Street | Person | Government role | Destination | Notes | |--------|-----------------|-------------|-------| | [[Trent Lott]] | Senate Majority Leader (R-MS) | Breaux-Lott → [[Squire Patton Boggs]] → [[Crossroads Strategies]] | Resigned 2007 just ahead of the two-year ban | | [[John Breaux]] | Senator (D-LA) | Breaux-Lott → [[Squire Patton Boggs]] → [[Crossroads Strategies]] | The bipartisan ex-leader duo with Lott | | [[Pat Roberts]] | Senator (R-KS); chaired Ag (both chambers) + Intel | [[Capitol Counsel]] | Retired 2021 | | Jim McCrery | Rep. (R-LA); Ways & Means ranking member | [[Capitol Counsel]] | GOP anchor of the firm since 2009 | | Earl Pomeroy | Rep. (D-ND) | [[Alston & Bird]] | Registered lobbyist there 2011–2024 | | [[David Vitter]] | Senator (R-LA) | [[Mercury Public Affairs]] | Trump-world bench | | [[Tom Daschle]] | Senate Majority Leader (D-SD) | [[Alston & Bird]], [[DLA Piper]] — unregistered | Named the "[[Shadow Lobbying]]" loophole | | [[Newt Gingrich]] | Speaker of the House (R-GA) | [[Freddie Mac]] "historian" — unregistered | The other shadow archetype | | [[Mike Gallagher]] | Rep. (R-WI), HASC | Head of Defense, [[Palantir]] | Legislator→industry variant | ## Door 2 — senior staff → K Street The volume business. The census firms are largely *built* from this door; representative verified movers: | Person | Government role | Destination | |--------|-----------------|-------------| | [[Susan Hirschmann]] | Chief of staff to [[Tom DeLay]] (House Majority Leader) | CEO, [[Williams & Jensen]] | | [[Kai Anderson]] | Deputy chief of staff to Harry Reid (Senate Majority Leader) | CEO, [[Cassidy & Associates]] | | [[Paul Arcangeli]] | Staff director (Dem), House Armed Services (12 yrs) | Principal, [[Invariant]] | | [[Cesar Conda]] | Chief of staff to [[Marco Rubio]]; adviser to VP [[Dick Cheney]] | Co-founder, [[Navigators Global]] | | [[Jeff Shockey]] | Staff director, House Intelligence; deputy staff director, House Appropriations | Co-founder, [[S-3 Group]] → [[Boeing]] → RTX | | Jeff Forbes | Staff director, Senate Finance; chief of staff to Sen. Baucus | Co-founder, [[Forbes Tate Partners]] | | Kyle Nevins / Steve Stombres | Deputy CoS / CoS to Majority Leader Eric Cantor | Co-founders, [[Harbinger Strategies]] | | Dean Rosen | Chief healthcare advisor to Majority Leader Bill Frist | Partner, [[Mehlman Consulting]] | | Lisa Kountoupes | Clinton WH deputy director of legislative affairs | Name partner, [[KDCR Partners]] | | Hunter Moorhead | Bush WH National Economic Council; Senate Appropriations staff | Principal, [[Crossroads Strategies]] | | Lucy Panza | Counsel to [[Chuck Schumer]] | [[Crossroads Strategies]] | | Michaeleen Crowell | Chief of staff to [[Bernie Sanders]] | [[S-3 Group]] | | Andrew Rosenberg / Chris Lamond | Aides to Sens. Kennedy (D) / Thompson (R) | Co-founders, [[Thorn Run Partners]] | | Keith Stern / Peter Webster | Chiefs of staff to Rep. McGovern / Sen. Coons | [[Cornerstone Government Affairs]] | ## Door 3 — executive branch → K Street | Person | Government role | Destination | |--------|-----------------|-------------| | [[George Sifakis]] | Director, Office of Public Liaison (Trump I) | [[Capitol Counsel]] ("Trumps Up" hire, 2024) | | [[Tate Bennett]] | Special assistant to President Trump; EPA; McConnell aide | SVP, [[Forbes Tate Partners]] (2025) | | [[Neil Kornze]] | Director, Bureau of Land Management (Obama) | [[Cassidy & Associates]] (2024) | | [[Reince Priebus]] | White House Chief of Staff (Trump I); RNC chair | Chairman, [[Michael Best Strategies]]; President, Michael Best & Friedrich | | Stewart Verdery | Assistant secretary, DHS | Founder, [[Monument Advocacy]] | | John Martin | FDA principal associate commissioner for legislation | Healthcare lead, [[Capitol Counsel]] | | Jonathan Talisman | Assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy (Clinton) | Co-founder, [[Capitol Tax Partners]] | | Scott Brenner | Senior executive, FAA and NHTSA | [[Crossroads Strategies]] | | Kristi Remington | Deputy assistant attorney general, DOJ | [[S-3 Group]] | | Pat Griffin / Harold Ickes | Clinton WH legislative affairs director / deputy chief of staff | [[Tiber Creek Group]] lineage | | [[Alex Wong]] | Principal deputy national security adviser (Trump II, Jan–May 2025) | Global Chief Strategy Officer, [[Hanwha Group]] (Sept 2025) — foreign principal | ## The third-party door: K Street → corporate Firm lobbyists in-housed by the companies they served — the influence industry's talent pipeline into Big Tech and the primes: | Person | From (firm) | To (industry) | |--------|-------------|---------------| | [[Mark Isakowitz]] | [[Fierce Government Relations]] (name partner) | VP government affairs US/Canada, [[Google]] | | [[Jeff Shockey]] | [[S-3 Group]] (co-founder) | [[Boeing]] → SVP global government relations, RTX | | Paul Thornell | [[Mehlman Consulting]] partner (Gore/Daschle alum) | 12+ years Citigroup, then back to the firm | --- ## Reading the roster Four structural observations. First, the **reverse door now outranks the forward door in consequence**: Wiles and Bondi entering power matters more than any ex-senator's retainer, because it converts a firm's alumni network into the government itself. Second, **the staff door is the industry's foundation** — celebrity ex-members are marketing; committee staff are the product. Third, the roster's absences are the point: every unregistered "advisor" (see [[Shadow Lobbying]]) is a door that revolved without a paper trail. Fourth, and newest, **the destination is not always American**: [[Alex Wong]] left the National Security Council in May 2025 and by September was the first Global Chief Strategy Officer of [[Hanwha Group]], a South Korean conglomerate that had needed [[CFIUS]] clearance to buy a Philadelphia shipyard and whose principal customer is the U.S. Navy. A foreign principal hiring a former principal deputy national security adviser is a door the [[Cooling-Off Period]] rules were not built to see. ## See also [[Revolving Door]] · [[Lobbying Hub]] · [[Cooling-Off Period]] · [[Shadow Lobbying]] · [[Influence Peddling]]