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| Steve Burns |
Summit Strategy Group, the Sacramento-based public policy, corporate reputation and ESG shop, has hired Steve Burns as managing director.
Burns did a nearly 12-year stint at Chevron handling policy, PA and government affairs issues.
He joined Chevron’s Washington office in 2002 as its first corporate social responsibility manager following the energy giant’s merger with Texaco.
Burns had been director of federal affairs at Enron.
He went on to Burson-Marsteller in 2014 as managing director for PA and crisis for the western region.
At B-M, Burns worked with Summit founder Michael Law, who was B-M’s US CEO.
Most recently, Burns was chief public policy officer for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Sacramento.
Anne Kierig, who was senior manager of public policy at Amazon, has joined the American Advertising Federation as VP-government affairs. She takes over for Clark Rector, who is retiring after a 37-year run at AAF.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, which was established in compliance with the executive order signed by President Trump, has hired Valcour LLC, which has close ties with his administration.
Ballard Partners has signed on gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co to advocate on behalf of Second Amendment issues.
Sakura Conservation Strategies has registered Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium as a client.
Sachs Media has signed on to represent the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund to advocate for public policies proven to reduce tobacco use, which is the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths in the US and the rest of the world.
