Mark Patterson
Mark Patterson

Brunswick Group has hired Mark Patterson, general counsel to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as senior advisor in its Washington office.

A former chief of staff at the Treasury Dept. during the Obama administration, Patterson has extensive fiscal, legal, tax and financial services expertise.

He was a policy director for former Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle and legislative director to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Patterson has private sector experience gained as partner at Perkins Coie and managing director at Goldman Sachs.

Neal Wolin, Brunswick CEO, said Patterson has “a deep understanding of critical issues with which organizations increasingly need to engage.”