September 2014 – Present (2 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for managing, relations with U.S. state and city governments, and leading Twitter’s global disaster response program. Chief Policy Officer Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America July 2012 – August 2014 (2 years 2 months)Washington D.C. Metro Area I was responsible for the strategic direction and roadmap of ...

California State Senator Ben Allen was elected in 2014 to represent the 26th Senate District, which consists of the Westside, Hollywood and coastal South Bay communities of Los Angeles County. Ben serves as chair of the Senate Education Committee and the legislature’s Joint Committee on the Arts.  He is a member of the Senate Committees on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, ...

As Executive Director of the California Transportation Commission, Kempton reports to the 11-member commission, which is responsible for providing programming and funding of several billion dollars annually for highway and rail transportation projects in partnership with regional transportation agencies and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The commission also advises the secretary of the California State Transportation Agency and the ...

Jeremy Merz has joined the American Insurance Association as the Vice President, Western Region in January 2017.  Mr. Merz will be based in the Sacramento, California office. He joins AIA from the California Chamber of Commerce, the largest business advocacy organization in the state, where he worked as a policy advocate representing over 14,000 company members before the California legislature, ...

Lande Ajose is executive director of California Competes, which develops recommendations for improved higher education. She has expertise in education; poverty alleviation; workforce development, especially for low-income adults; and issues of inequity. Before she became executive director she served as deputy director for four years. She also served as managing director at the strategic consulting firm Informing Change and focused ...

Host: George Cummings Topic: KHTS Sacramento Road Trip Guest: Jimmy Lifton Right Click Here To Download! Click Here To Listen! KHTS AM-1220 and dozens of members of the Santa Clarita community are headed up to Sacramento on Monday for the 12th annual KHTS Sacramento Road Trip. Jimmy Lifton joins our Morning Drive program alongside KHTS News Director Perry Smith to discuss ...

H.D. Palmer, Deputy Director for External Affairs at the California Department of Finance, was appointed by Governor Brown in January 2011, and serves as a principal spokesman for the administration on budget and fiscal issues. Palmer served in the same position under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2003 to 2010. Palmer also served at the Department of Finance from 1993 to ...

Amy Brown represents DBHK’s clients before the California State Legislature and Administration and provides consulting services to various local agencies. She is also the Editor and Publisher of the Public Retirement Journal and the PERS Public Agency Coalition Alert – two monthly publications that cover public pension and health care issues, local government employee relations, and industry expert perspectives. Prior ...

Vito Imbasciani was sworn in as Secretary at the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) on September 28, 2015. Imbasciani was director of government relations at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group since 2004, where he has been a urologic surgeon since 1997. He served as state surgeon for the California Army National Guard from 2006 to 2014 and as ...

Bill Cooper is a long time water professional having worked for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for about 40 years. During that time he held various posts including the Water Treatment Section Manager overseeing the operations and maintenance of all five Metropolitan Water Treatment Plants that supply about one-half of all the water to the 19 million people ...