 |
Alpine Group is providing Washington representation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform.
The focus is on federal appropriations matters and management of cloud computing technologies.
AWS registered $66.5B in nine-month revenues and chalked up $17.4 billion in operating income.
It boasts of major federal contracts, led by the $10B ten-year “Wild and Stormy” pact with the National Security Agency, and work for the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and the US Navy.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a fraught relationship with Donald Trump. The company in 2019 said Trump launched “behind the scenes attacks” on it, which caused it to lose a major federal contact to Microsoft.
CEO Les Spivey leads the five-member AWS team, which includes Keenan Austin Reed, executive director and board member at Alpine’s parent company, Public Policy Holding Company.
Booz Allen Hamilton is the latest firm to hire Trump-connected Ballard Partners for Washington representation.
Colin Brainard, who did a four-year stint as Walmart’s top federal lobbyist, has joined Alpine Group’s tax practice.
FGS Global is working with the non-profit Power Forward Communities coalition in the area of federal funding support as Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Motion Picture Association EVP, US government affairs Patrick Kilcur comes on board at Ballard Partners as a partner in its D.C. office.
United Healthcare has hired DC-based Guidepost Strategies for issues related to Medicare/Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and pharmacy benefits.
Have a comment? Send it to 
No comments have been submitted for this story yet.