![]() Barrett Karr |
Barrett Karr, chief of staff to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, will join Silver Lake Partners private equity firm next month.
She will head government relations at the Menlo Park-based $43B assets firm that has invested in tech companies such as Broadcom, Dell, Symantec, Seagate and Skype.
Karr took the CoS slot in January 2017, after serving as deputy chief for McCarthy, who is one of president Trump’s biggest supporters on Capitol Hill.
Earlier, she was Republican staff director at the House Education Committee, assistant legislative affairs director for president George W. Bush and CoS to Rep. Kay Granger of Texas.


Interpublic posted a 5.1 percent drop in Q3 net revenues to $2.5B as CEO Philippe Krakowsky reports the final financial results of the publicly traded company.
Joele Frank handles Pine Gate Renewables as the Asheville, NC-based solar power development company declares Chapter 11 in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s cuts to wind & solar tax credits.
Stagwell CEO Mark Penn reports Q3 net revenues jumped 6 percent to $614.5M, a record performance for a non-political period. Operating income soared 45.7 percent to $60.9M.
Joele Frank works for Klöckner Pentaplast as the German maker of plastic films declares Chapter 11. A successful reorganization would slash its its corporate debt by $1.5B.
Teneo represents Metsera, the New York City biotech focused on weight-control products, which is subject to a bidding war between heavyweights Novo Nordisk and Pfizer.



