Other Administration Appointees: P–T

Scott Kupor
Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Kupor is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Before that, he was vice president and general manager of software-as-a-service at Hewlett Packard. He is also the former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. Kupor has a bachelor’s and law degree from Stanford University.

Paul Atkins
Former SEC Commissioner | CEO and Founder of Patomak Global Partners

Atkins, the CEO and Founder of Patomak Global Partners, initially worked as a lawyer in the financial market sectors. In the 1990s, Atkins worked for two former SEC chairmen, and from 2002 to 2008, he served as the SEC commissioner. Atkins was also a member of the President Trump’s strategic and policy forum.

Casey B. Mulligan
Former Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors

Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, was a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at America First Policy Institute. Before that, he was chief economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Trump administration. In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago, Mulligan has taught at Harvard and Clemson University.

Bill Briggs
Former Acting Associate Administrator in the Office of Capital Access at SBA

Briggs was the first CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Association. During Trump’s first term, Briggs served in several roles at the Small Business Administration, first as a senior advisor, then as a deputy associate administrator, and finally as the acting associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access. He graduated with a BA from the University of Michigan.

Chris Stallings
Director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency         

Stallings spent the past four years as the director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Before joining the agency, he spent more than 12 years serving the Georgia State Patrol. Stallings attended LaGrange College.

Frank Bisignano
Chairman, President and CEO of Fiserv Corporation

Bisignano is the chairman, president and CEO of Fiserv Corporation, which he joined when it merged with First Data Corporation in 2019. Before that, Bisignano was a top executive at JP Morgan Chase and Co. He has held senior positions at Citigroup and has a number of nonprofit commitments.

Ambassador Christopher Landau
Former Ambassador to Mexico

From 2019 to 2021, Landau served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico under President Trump. He has spent over 30 years as a lawyer and clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. He is of counsel at Ellis George, LLP. 

Michael J. Rigas
Former Deputy and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and the Acting Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget

Prior to his time serving during the first Trump administration, Rigas was a senior advisor and associate administrator at the General Services Administration. Rigas was also chief of staff at the Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services and spent time at the Heritage Foundation.

Michael Anton
Former Spokesman for the National Security Council  

Anton is a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. In the 2016 election, he wrote the influential essay, “The Flight 93 Election” supporting Trump’s candidacy for a Claremont publication. Before his time as a spokesman for the National Security Council under Trump, he held a national security position in the George W. Bush Administration.

Jacob Helberg
Commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission | Senior Advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies

Helberg is a senior advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies, a commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and a fellow at CNAS. He wrote “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power” and previously worked for Google.

Monica Crowley
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs

Crowley, a former analyst for Fox News, is a bestselling author, anchor and podcast host. Crowley was a foreign policy assistant to President Nixon and worked at the Department of Treasury during the Trump administration. If confirmed, Crowley will act as the US representative for the World Cup and Olympics.

Michael George DeSombre
Former United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand

DeSombre served as the US ambassador to Thailand from 2020 to 2021. Following his diplomatic service, he became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he led the Asia Mergers & Acquisitions Practice as well as the Korea and Southeast Asia Practices.

Michael Needham
Former Chief of Staff to Senator Rubio

Needham is the chairman of American Compass and founder and executive director of America 2100. Before founding America 2100, Needham spent five years as the chief of staff for secretary of state Senator Marco Rubio. Before joining Rubio, Needham was the CEO of Heritage Action for America.

Reed Rubinstein
Senior Vice President of the America First Legal Foundation

Rubinstein is the senior vice president of the America First Legal Foundation. He served in the Trump administration as deputy associate attorney general, general counsel, US Department of Education (delegated) and senior advisor to the secretary of the Treasury, among other things Rubinstein has JD, MA, and AB degrees from the University of Michigan and is a member of the DC, Virginia, Michigan and Connecticut bars.

Tammy Bruce
Political Analyst

Bruce is a political analyst who has served as a contributor at FOX News for almost 20 years, who hosts her own radio show, The Tammy Bruce Show. Bruce worked on several democratic campaigns before changing her party affiliation and becoming a conservative.

Matthew Whitaker
Former Acting Attorney General and US Attorney

Whitaker was the acting attorney general between Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr’s tenure during the first Trump administration. Coming out of a law enforcement background, Whitaker served as a US attorney for the Southern District of Iowa.

Warren Stephens
Ambassador to the UK and Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.

Stephens is an American businessman. He serves as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Stephens Inc., a privately owned investment bank. President Donald Trump nominated Stephens to be the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Michael E. Kavoukjian
Former Senior Partner at White & Case

Kavoukjian was a senior partner at White & Case in the Global Commercial Litigation Group and the head of the Firm’s fiduciary litigation practice. Kavoukjian previously worked as a CIA operations officer and is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.

Thomas Rose
Former Publisher and CEO of Jerusalem Post

From 1997 to 2005, Rose served as the publisher and CEO of Jerusalem Post. After that, he hosted a radio show on Sirius XM for more than 8 years and served in the White House during the first Trump administration as a senior advisor and chief strategist to Vice President Pence.

Mark Brnovich
Former Arizona Attorney General

Brnovich served as Arizona attorney general from 2015 to 2023. Prior to that, he was the assistant attorney general for Arizona and an assistant United States attorney for the District of Arizona. Brnovich has also served as a judge pro tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court, a command staff judge advocate in the US Army National Guard, the director of Constitutional Government at the Goldwater Institute and the director of the Arizona Department of Gaming.

Howard Brodie
Co-President and General Counsel of Brodie Generational Capital Partners

Brodie was co-president and general counsel of Brodie Generational Capital Partners, an investment firm based in Pennsylvania. Before his time at BGCP, Brodie was vice president and general counsel at Purolite Corporation for two years, and executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary at Empower Energies Clean Infrastructure LLC for 13 years.

Michel Issa
Banker

Issa, a Lebanese American originally from a town north of Beirut, studied economics in Paris before working at the Union of Arab and French Banks. He left the banking sector in 1999 to acquire Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen dealerships. Issa is also known to be a friend of former President Trump.

Lynda Blanchard
Former Ambassador to Slovenia

Blanchard served as the US ambassador to Slovenia during the first Trump administration. She co-founded B&M Management Company, a real estate investment firm, and the 100X Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on combating poverty and improving children’s lives worldwide. Blanchard is a graduate of Auburn University.

Duke Buchan III
Finance Chair, Republican National Committee

Buchan is the founder and CEO of Hunter Global Investors and served as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee. He has held roles at Merrill Lynch and Maverick Capital and was the US ambassador to Spain and Andorra during the first Trump administration.

Amer Ghalib
Former Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan

Ghalib served as the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, after being elected in 2021. Born in Yemen, he was the city’s first Arab American and Muslim mayor. During the 2024 presidential election, Ghalib endorsed former President Trump and campaigned alongside him.

Bill Bazzi
Former Mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Bazzi, a Lebanese-born US Marine veteran, served as the Mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan. He previously worked with Boeing and Ford. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Bazzi endorsed President Trump.

Herschel Walker
Former Professional Football Player | Former Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition

Walker was a running back at UGA, receiving a Heisman Trophy before he went on to play in the USFL and the NFL. He served as a spokesman for the Universal Health Services’ Patriot Support Program and was the chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition during the first Trump administration. Walker was the Trump-endorsed Senate candidate in Georgia’s 2022 election, which was won by Senator Raphael Warnock.

Charles Kushner
Ambassador to France and Founder of Kushner Companies

Kushner is an American real estate developer and a former attorney. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. His son, Jared Kushner, is married to Ivanka Trump and is the son-in-law of President Trump. During Trump’s presidency, Jared served as a senior advisor from 2017 to 2021.

Joe Popolo
Founder and CEO of Charles and Potomac Capital, LLC

Popolo is the founder and CEO of Charles and Potomac Capital, LLC, the chairman of the Board of Pinnacle Live, LLC, and a board member of Ondas Holdings. Popolo led the Freeman Company, the world’s largest event production company, as CEO and president. At Freeman, he grew it to a US$3B company and sold its technology subsidiary to Blackstone in 2019. He received the “E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year” award and the Dallas Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEO” award.

Melinda Hildebrand
Vice Chair of the Hildebrand Foundation and Vice President of Hilcorp Ventures Inc.

Hildebrand is the vice chair of the Hildebrand Foundation, the vice president of Hilcorp Ventures Inc., and the president and owner of River Oaks Donuts in Houston. She serves on the boards of several universities and cultural institutions. She is married to Jeffery Hildebrand, the founder, chairman and CEO of Hilcorp Energy Company.

Nicholas Merrick
Former President of Mt. Vernon Investments

Merrick was president of Mt. Vernon Investments, a family office and investment firm in Dallas owned by Kenny Troutt, founder of Excel Communications. Prior to Mt. Vernon Investments, Merrick was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Teleglobe, Inc. and Telco Communications Group, Inc. Merrick served on the board of directors of Tiedemann Wealth Management LLC and the Investment Sub-Committee of Texas Health Resources, as well as working part-time as a teacher at Cistercian Preparatory School.

Benjamin Leon Jr.
Founder of Leon Medical Centers

León, Jr., is a Cuban immigrant who founded Leon Medical Centers in 1996. Prior to that, he co-founded Clínica Asociación Cubana (CAC) with his father in 1970. Leon is a native south Floridian, and has made significant philanthropic contributions to Miami Dade College, and Florida International University.

Callista L. Gingrich
Former Ambassador to the Holy See

Gingrich is the president and CEO of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company. She was the ambassador to the Holy See during the first Trump administration. She is married to Newt Gingrich, the former US House speaker.

Ken Howery
Former Ambassador to Sweden Under Trump

Howery was a co-founder of PayPal and venture capital fund, Founders Fund. He is a founding advisor at Kiva.org, a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, and a former board member of the Board of Directors of the Explorers Club.

Jared Novelly
Chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management

Novelly is the owner of the Australian basketball Illawarra Hawks team and served as the chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management. Novelly is also an East Asia Super League Basketball shareholder.

Andrew F. Puzder
Former CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc.

Puzder spent 17 years as the chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent of international restaurant chains Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s. Puzder was nominated to head Trump’s Department of Labor during the first Trump administration before he withdrew from consideration.

Tilman J. Fertitta
CEO of Landry’s | Owner of Houston Rockets

Fertitta is the CEO of Landry’s and owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team. He starred in CNBC’s reality show Billion Dollar Buyer. He is the longest serving chairman of the Board of Regents for the University of Houston and a donor to Trump’s Save America PAC.

Mark Burnett
Former Chair of MGM’s Television Studio | Producer of The Apprentice

Burnett is the former chair of MGM’s television studio and producer of several shows, including Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, as well as Trump’s show, The Apprentice. He has received 13 Emmy Awards. Brunett was born in the UK. This is a first-time appointment by a president to have an ambassador and a special envoy to the UK

Mauricio Claver-Carone
Former Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council Under President Trump | Former president of the Inter-American Development Bank

Claver-Carone is the managing partner and Investment Committee co-chair of the Latin America Real Assets Opportunities Fund (“LARA Fund”). Before his time at the LARA Fund, Claver-Carone served as president and chairman of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (“IDB”) after serving the Trump White House.

Ambassador George Glass
Former US Ambassador to Portugal

Before serving as the ambassador to Portugal under Trump, Glass was the owner and managing partner of MGG Development LLC. Prior to that, Glass was the founder, president and vice chairman of Pacific Crest Securities. He is a long time Trump donor who served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon.

Former Governor Mike Huckabee
Former Governor of Arkansas

Huckabee served as the governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He ran in the Republican presidential primaries in 2008 and 2016. The former Baptist minister most recently has worked as a commentator on Fox News.

Brian Burch
President and Co-Founder of CatholicVote (CV)

Burch, the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, is the co-author of the America Catholic Daily Reader, the author of “A New Catholic Moment: Donald Trump and the Politics of the Common Good” published in 2020. He regularly makes appearances on Fox News, Newsmax, New Nation, and BlazeTV. 

Christine Jack Toretti
Chairman of S&T Bancorp | Former Director, Federal Reserve of Pittsburgh | Republican National Committeewoman for Pennsylvania

Toretti was a RNC committeewoman for Pennsylvania and chairman of S&T Bancorp. Before her time at S&T, she was the director of the Pittsburgh Federal Reserve Bank. Toretti was a board member of the International Medical Corps, director of the NCAA Foundation, founding director of the Gettysburg Foundation and is the recipient of the Athena International Global Award.

Nicole McGraw
Art Collector and Gallery Owner

McGraw is an Art Collector and gallery owner, opening her gallery in Palm Beach Gardens in 2006. She is founder of the nonprofit CANVAS Art Charities and runs the CANVAS Art Hedge Fund. She is a board member of Place of Hope.  

Lou Rinaldi
Businessman | Golfer

Rinaldi is one of Trump’s personal friends. He is a contractor and engineer and has been a vendor in the construction of some of Trump’s courses. Rinaldi’s family emigrated to Uruguay from Italy. Rinaldi grew up in Uruguay and is a businessman and entrepreneur with an interest in golf.

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra
Former Ambassador to the Netherlands and former Chair, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Hoekstra served as a Michigan congressman from 1993 to 2011. During this time, he served as chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Hoekstra served as the United State ambassador to the Netherlands during President Trump’s first administration.

Leah Francis Campos
Former Senior Advisor for the Western Hemisphere, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

After working as an operations officer for the CIA, Campos served the US House of Representatives for almost five years as a senior advisor on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Her sister is Fox News host Rachel Campos Duffy, and her brother-in-law is Sean Duffy, a former congressman and Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation.

Ronald (Ron) Johnson
Former Ambassador to El Salvador | CIA’s Science and Technology Liaison to the US Special Operations Command

Johnson spent years in the US Army, where he was deployed to Panama and served in the Southern Command Area of Responsibility. After his time in the military, Johnson spent over 20 years working for the CIA. He served as the US Ambassador to El Salvador under Trump.

Art Fisher
President of Fisher Realty | Senate Appointee to the North Caroline Travel and Tourism Board

In addition to being a broker associate for Fisher Realty, Fisher is a trustee of Brevard College and the Pisgah Health Foundation. He is also a board member of United Community Bank and a Senate appointee to the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Board.

Tom Barrack 
Founder of Colony Capital (now DigitalBridge)

Barrack is the founder of Colony Capital, and worked for the company, now called DigitalBridge, until 2021. Barrack previously served as deputy secretary at the Department of Interior during the Reagan administration. Barrack was a senior advisor to the Trump 2016 campaign and chaired the 2017 inaugural committee.

Kimberly Guilfoyle
Former Fox News Host | Trump 2020 Campaign Finance Chair

Guilfoyle served as the 2020 Trump campaign finance chair. Before joining the Trump campaign, she spent over a decade as a Fox News host and spent time as a prosecutor in California. She spoke at the last two Republican National Conventions.

Ambassador Brandon Judd
Former President of the National Border Patrol Council | Former President of the National Border Patrol Union

Before becoming the president of the National Border Patrol Council, Judd was the president of the National Border Patrol Union. He spent more than 15 years as a border patrol agent and served as an instructor at the Border Patrol Academy.

Stacey Feinberg
President of 33 Capital LLC

Feinberg worked for Bob Wolf Associates, her father—Bob Wolf’s—sports and entertainment law firm, before forming JLF Asset Management, a hedge fund. Feinberg is the President of 33 Capital LLC and is the director of the board for the Women’s Founders Network.

Senator David Perdue
Former Senator, GA

Perdue, a management consultant and business executive, served as a Georgia US Senator from 2015 to 2021, and ran for governor of Georgia in 2022. During his time in the Senate, Perdue was on the Armed Services Committee as the chair of the Sea Power Subcommittee and also held a position on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Bill White
CEO and Founder, Constellations Group

In 2010, White founded Constellations Group, a strategic advisory and consulting firm that provides counsel on business and philanthropic concerns. He is the former president of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. White is a resident of Atlanta and New York and served as a major fundraiser for both Republican and Democratic officials.

Edward Walsh
President of Walsh Company

Walsh is the president of Walsh Company, a construction and real estate firm which he founded in 2003. Before founding Walsh Company, Walsh was the senior vice president at Gale and Wentworth. He also served as the chairman of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority board.

Daniel J. Newlin
Law Firm Owner and Trump Donor

After a 28-year career in law enforcement, Newlin founded Dan Newlin Injury Attorneys, the second largest personal injury law firm in the country. Newlin was a significant donor to Trump’s campaign and the fund supporting the family of the victim killed during the assassination attempt on Trump in July.  He received the Distinguished Service Medal for Sustained Superior Performance for his time as a sheriff’s detective at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Dr. Peter Lamelas, MD, MBA
Founder of MD Now Urgent Care | Former member of the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board

Lamelas, a Cuban immigrant, is the founder of MD Now Urgent Care, an urgent care system in Florida. An ER doctor for 20 years, he served on the State of Florida Board of Medicine. During Trump’s first term, Lamelas was on the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board.

 John Arrigo
Vice President of the Arrigo Auto Group

Arrigo was the vice president of the Arrigo Auto Group, located in West Palm Beach, where he has worked for more than 35 years. He is a long-time associate of Trump. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1985.

Edward Walsh
President of Walsh Company

Walsh is the president of Walsh Company, a construction and real estate firm which he founded in 2003. Before founding Walsh Company, Walsh was the senior vice president at Gale and Wentworth. He also served as the chairman of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority board.

Kevin Marino Cabrera
Miami-Dade County Commissioner | Vice Chairman of the International Trade Consortium

Cabrera served in Trump’s 2020 Florida reelection campaign as state director. He was the Miami-Dade County commissioner, and the vice chairman of the International Trade Consortium. In 2024, he served as a member of the RNC Platform Committee.

Somers Farkas
Vice President of the Arrigo Auto Former President’s Commission on White House Fellowships member | Former model | Former Advertising Executive

In 2017 Farkas, a former model and advertising executive, was appointed to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. She is a Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation and an Honorary Battalion Chief of the Fire Department of the City of New York.

Kevin Marino Cabrera
Miami-Dade County Commissioner | Vice Chairman of the International Trade Consortium

Cabrera served in Trump’s 2020 Florida reelection campaign as state director. He was the Miami-Dade County commissioner, and the vice chairman of the International Trade Consortium. In 2024, he served as a member of the RNC Platform Committee.

Leandro Rizzuto Jr
Former US Consul General to Bermuda

From 1982 to 2013, Rizzuto Jr held executive roles at Conair, his family’s company. He received the UNICO Garibaldi Award in 2011. Leandro Rizzuto Jr was the US Consul General during the first Trump administration. Rizzuto Jr then went on to serve on the board of a Trump super PAC.

Steven Gill Bradbury
Former General Counsel of the Department of Transportation

During Trump’s first administration, Bradbury served as the general counsel of the Department of Transportation. He also served as principle deputy and acting assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel at the Department of Justice under George W. Bush. He has been a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and at Dechert LLP.

Marcus Molinaro
Former US Congressman (R-NY)

Molinaro served as a Congressman for New York from 2023 to 2025. He started his career in public service in 1995 as the mayor of Tivoli, NY, before going on to serve as a member of the Dutchess County, NY, legislature. He was a member of the New York State Assembly.

Paul Roberti
Former Chief Counsel of Safety Regulation at PHMSA

Roberti was chief counsel who oversaw PHMSA’s safety regulations from 2018 to 2021. After that, Roberti worked as a managing director for the consulting firm Ernst & Young. From 2009 to 2016 he was commissioner on the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission and before that served as an assistant attorney general in Rhode Island.

David Fink
Former Pan Am Railways President

Fink, the son of a career railroader, has spent over 45 years in transportation leadership, starting his career in the 1980s working for General Motors. Fink was the president of Pan Am Railways from 2006 until 2022 when the company was acquired by CSX Transportation.

Dr. Michael Faulkender
Former Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy | The Dean’s Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business | AFPI’s Chief Economist and Senior Advisor for the Center for American Prosperity

Faulkender is the dean’s professor of finance at the University of Maryland and is a chief economist and senior advisor for the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Faulkender served during the Trump administration, is published in top finance journals. He has taught at universities across the country.

Brian Morrissey
Former Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Treasury

Morrissey served as deputy general counsel of the Department of Treasury during the first Trump administration. He was partner in the Washington office of the law firm Sidley Austin, and he previously worked at the Justice Department and clerked in the Supreme Court.

Alexandra Preate
Founder and CEO of CapitalHQ

Preate was the founder and chief executive officer of CapitalHQ. Alexandra worked with Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore and Steve Forbes to launch the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, an advocacy group for conservative economic policy. Preate also worked as director of the American Swiss Foundation and was a founding member of the Monday Meeting in New York City.

Ken Kies
Tax Lawyer | Former Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation

Kies, a tax lawyer and lobbyist for 47 years, and has served as the chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the chief republican tax counsel of the House Ways and Means Committee. He was managing director of the Federal Policy Group, LLC.

Billy Long
Former Representative, R MO 7 | Auctioneer| Business and Tax Advisor

Before joining Congress, Long spent over 30 years running his auctioneering business, Billy Long Auctions LLC. From 2011 to 2023, the auctioneer and radio personality served as the Representative for Missouri’s  7^th Congressional District. After 12 years in Congress, Long now works as a business and tax advisor.