Ed Matricardi

Ed Matricardi is the founder of Allied Public Affairs, where he has provided national coalition management and multi-state field services for many corporations, trade associations and non-profit organizations — including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s campaign for education reform and T. Boone Pickens’ campaign for energy independence.

Prior to founding Allied in 2008, Matricardi spent five years with DCI Group where he managed national coalitions and multi-state field campaigns for several Fortune 50 companies – and built a bipartisan field network of state-based political professionals in all 50 states.

Mr. Matricardi has served in a wide variety of legal, governmental, corporate and political positions: including practicing law in NOVA; serving as Special Assistant to the Governor of Virginia and two cabinet secretaries (Secretary of Administration & Secretary of the Commonwealth); running day to day operations as Executive Director for two state political parties (Republican Party of Virginia & South Carolina Republican Party); directing a state agency (VA Department of Professional & Occupational Regulation); managing two major 527 organizations during the 2004 presidential campaign (Progress for America & Swift Boat Vets); teaching a class at Yale Law School (about the modern judicial confirmation process); serving as an instructor at the RNC’s Campaign Management College for political operatives across the country; serving in senior positions on the past five Republican National Conventions; and working in senior positions with more than 85 political campaigns and hundreds of corporate campaigns in almost every state in the union.