As well as Chairing PPHC, Simon is Chair of Brit Syndicates and the Advisory Board of Perfect Cellar. He is Non-Executive Director of Fairfax International (Barbados) Ltd, Singapore Re Ltd, Falcon (Hong Kong) Ltd, and Tradeplus24 AG. Until December 2013, he served as group chief executive of RSA Insurance Group plc, a FTSE 100 insurer. Simon also spent 17 years with NatWest Group where he held a number of senior leadership positions, including CEO of NatWest Offshore, Head of US Retail Banking, CEO NatWest Mortgage Corporation (US) and Director of Global Wholesale Markets.

Simon Lee is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Stewart is a co-founder of the Group. He is also founder and chairman of Crossroads Strategies, a bipartisan, multi-disciplinary federal relations, advocacy and advisory firm based in Washington DC. Stewart has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. He co-founded Federalist Group in 1999, which was acquired by Ogilvy Public Relations (WPP) in 2005. Prior to that, he served as Legislative Director to Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) from 1992-1996, working across defense policy, appropriations and financial services committees.

Roel Smits is Chief Financial Officer of PPHC. Roel joined PPHC in May 2022 as Deputy Chief Financial Officer with a strong focus on driving the company’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) agenda. Prior to joining PPHC, Roel spent 10 years in various CFO roles at Kantar, where he most recently was CFO of Kantar Americas. Before joining Kantar, Roel spent 6 years leading the North American M&A team of WPP.

Zachary is a Managing Partner at Forbes Tate Partners, a bipartisan, full-service government and public affairs advocacy firm that became part of PPHC in 2014. Prior to Forbes Tate Partners, he was a founder and managing partner of Cauthen Forbes and Williams.

Keenan Austin Reed, a global leader on policy and politics, serves as a senior advisor to the Public Policy Holding Company. Austin Reed is known for mobilizing her immense network and building brands and coalitions to advance the goals of her clients and the broader Capitol Hill community. 

Austin Reed is CEO of the Alpine Group, a top 20 lobbying firm in Washington and a PPHC member company. She joined Alpine Group in 2021 and has swiftly risen to the firm’s leadership. Recently Austin Reed was named “Lobbyist of the Year” by the prestigious Washington Government Relations Group. Austin Reed is also the founder and Chair of Black Women Leading, a 501c3, that supports the empowerment of Black women in public service, notably the Black Women’s Congressional Alliance (BWCA).

Benjamin has most recently been a political law Partner at international law firm, Jones Day, before retiring in August 2020. Prior to that he served as national counsel to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004, as well as the Romney for President campaigns of 2008 and 2012. He joined Patton Boggs, a full-service global law firm, in 1993 after serving eight years as counsel to the Republican National Committee, the Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican Congressional Committee. Benjamin is counsel to the Republican Governors Association.

Benjamin Ginsberg is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Kym is Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of Generate:Biomedicines, a company focused on the application of AI to drug discovery founded by Flagship Pioneering. She most recently spent three years in the Alphabet ecosystem serving as a senior advisor to Verily and Isomorphic Labs, two of Alphabet’s “bets” in healthcare. Kym has served as Chief Communications Officer for a number of public companies including CVS Health, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Baxter. In addition to her corporate roles, she held senior leadership roles at Edelman and Ogilvy over a 20+ year agency career.

Kym is Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Charles D. Brown spent nearly 25 years at Fitch Group, Inc., a global financial data and information company, and its principal subsidiary, Fitch Ratings, Inc., one of the largest international credit rating agencies, most recently as the Chief Legal Officer and member of the Executive Committee, responsible for all legal matters, risk management, and government and regulatory relations. During his time with Fitch, he also served as Chief Compliance Officer for Fitch Ratings and, later, as Chief Credit Officer. Mr. Brown is an experienced lawyer and executive specializing in corporate and securities law, capital markets, risk management, compliance, and corporate governance.

Mr. Brown is an Independent, Non-Executive Director at DBRS Inc., DBRS Ratings Limited, DBRS Ratings GmbH, and their credit rating agency affiliates (collectively, Morningstar DBRS), the worldwide credit rating agency that is a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc., a leading global provider of independent investment insights.

Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science (BS), summa cum laude, in Economics and Finance from the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.), cum laude, from the Fordham University School of Law. 

Mr. Brown is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee.

Kathleen has more than thirty years of experience in various senior government and private sector leadership roles and, from 2006 to 2011, she served as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC“). In this capacity, she also served in several international leadership positions, including Chair of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (“IOSCO”) Technical Committee and Co-Chair of the CPSS-IOSCO Review of Standards, IOSCO OTC Derivatives Task Force, IOSCO Task Force on Supervisory Cooperation, and Financial Stability Board Working Group on Provisioning. Since leaving the SEC in 2011, Kathleen has served as a Non-Executive Director on several corporate boards including HSBC Holdings plc, FX Alliance, Inc., and Standard Coin. She received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and a B.A. in international politics from The Pennsylvania State University.

Kathleen is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.