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Gentry Collins has run large-scale advocacy and brand management efforts across multiple industries.  He is the former National Political Director at both the Republican Governors Association and the Republican National Committee.

Eric Branstad most recently served as Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was the chief aide for United States Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. In this role, Branstad worked directly with other Department officials and was responsible for special projects as directed by the President, Vice President and other White House agencies. Branstad also previously served as Liaison to the Nation’s Governors for the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Prior to his work with the Administration, Branstad held the role of Iowa State Director of the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign, where the President had the largest margin of victory in the State since President Reagan’s election in 1980. He also served as Rules Committee Whip and Floor Whip at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Branstad has had a long career in Republican politics in Iowa, dating back to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in 2004, as well as earlier work for the state GOP during 2002 midterms.

Branstad is a founding partner of a Des Moines-based consulting firm, Matchpoint Strategies, where he specialized in government relations, public affairs, political strategy, and earned media. He has also provided strategic and organizational services to candidates for office, state parties, and national campaign committees. Strategies is a Public Affairs and Fundraising Firm "making the impossible happen" for a wide range of clients - corporations, trade associations, governments and non-profit advocacy groups.

Jeff Stein is a national award-winning broadcaster and best-selling author. He is news and program director for News/Talk 1540 KXEL, a heritage 50,000-watt clear channel radio station in Waterloo/Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids. His morning program, “KXEL Live & Local,” is the only daily radio interview program based in Eastern Iowa, and is a “must stop” for political candidates and officeholders. This is the 12th Iowa presidential precinct caucus he has covered, dating back to his first radio job as a teenager in 1980. He also produces and hosts the statewide syndicated “Iowa Almanac” and “Iowa Business Report” radio programs and podcasts.

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