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CHRIS GOBBLE

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CHRIS GOBBLE

(Tennessee, )

Stones River Group

chris.gobble@stonesrivergroup.com
615-645-0233
511 Union Street, Suite 1100, Nashville, TN, 37219,

Chris Gobble is a respected government affairs specialist with deep issue expertise and a broad base of policymaker and stakeholder relationships. He leverages his insights into the state General Assembly, Tennessee executive branch, and local governments to help SRG clients navigate complex political challenges and effectively advance meaningful policy solutions. Prior to joining SRG, Chris served as senior director of public policy for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce and was the legislative and policy director for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security under Governor Bill Haslam.

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Chris Gobble is a respected government affairs specialist with deep issue expertise and a broad base of policymaker and stakeholder relationships. He leverages his insights into the state General Assembly, Tennessee executive branch, and local governments to help SRG clients navigate complex political challenges and effectively advance meaningful policy solutions.

Prior to joining SRG, Chris served as senior director of public policy for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, where he helped drive policy changes and facilitate government affairs efforts for 2,000 businesses representing over 180,000 employees. He also regularly and effectively collaborated with local, state, and federal elected officials to advance Chattanooga's status as a leader in education, workforce, and economic development.

Prior to Gobble's tenure in Chattanooga, he was the legislative and policy director for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. In this role, Gobble worked closely with Governor Bill Haslam's office and the state legislature to develop and implement a variety of public policy initiatives.

Originally from Bradley County, Chris earned a B.A. in Political Science and Communications from Lipscomb University. He and his wife Sarah live in Nashville.

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MARK CATE

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MARK CATE

(Tennessee, )

Stones River Group

mark.cate@stonesrivergroup.com
615-645-0233
511 Union Street, Suite 1100, Nashville, TN, 37219,

Mark Cate is the Founder and President of Stones River Group, a Nashville-based public affairs firm serving both Tennessee, regional and national clients. He formerly served as Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam's chief of staff, where he was his top advisor, strategist and negotiator.

1) Acadia Healthcare

2) ACT, INC.

3) Advantage Capital

4) Alliance Healthcare Services, Inc.

5) Alzheimer's Association

6) Aunt Bertha, a Public Benefit Corporation d/b/a findhelp

7) BlackRock Funds Services Group, LLC

8) Blount Partnership

9) BusPatrol America LLC

10) Campaign for Great Public Schools dba as City Fund Action

11) Catapult Learning

12) CG of Tennessee LLC

13) CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART

14) Client Network Services, LLC

15) CMH Services Inc.

16) Cognia

17) Communities In Schools of Tennessee

18) Critical Nurse Staffing, LLC

19) Curriculum Associates, LLC

20) DELTA DENTAL OF TN

21) DGA Residential LLC

22) Edmentum

23) Empower Schools

24) Energy Systems Group, LLC

25) Ernst & Young LLP

26) Family First, Inc.

27) FFF Enterprises, Inc.

28) Geographic Solutions, Inc

29) Graduation Alliance, Inc

30) Greater Nashville Regional Council

31) Ingram Barge Company LLC

32) INGRAM INDUSTRIES, INC.

33) Joe C Davis Foundation

34) Junior Achievement of East Tennesse

35) Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee

36) Knox County

37) Knoxville Zoological Gardens Inc.

38) Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC and Affiliates

39) Koch Government Affairs, LLC and Affiliates

40) L3Harris Technologies

41) Liminex, Inc dba GoGuardian

42) Livanova

43) Lorraine Civil Rights Foundation dba National Civil Rights Museum

44) MARK43 INC

45) Maximus, Inc.

46) Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc

47) Memphis Shelby Crime Commission

48) Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority

49) Merit International Inc

50) Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

51) Nashville Soccer Holdings, LLC

52) PathGroup

53) PayIt, LLC

54) Salesforce, Inc.

55) SAS Institute Inc.

56) SH Advisors LLC

57) Skinny Labs Inc. (dba Spin)

58) Southern College of Optometry

59) STV Incorporated

60) Tech901

61) Tennessee Charter School Allies

62) The Adoption Project

63) The Coalition for Better Health

64) The United Company

65) TN Development District Assn

66) Uptown Property Holdings LLC

67) WASTE MANAGEMENT

68) Wolf River Harbor Holdings, LLC

69) YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South

6-10 years

I have been recognized by the Nashville Post list of In-Charge: Government & Politics for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022

Our firm was recognized nationally by the Public Relations Society of America for our comprehensive public affairs campaign to bring Major League Soccer to Nashville

Mark Cate is the Founder and President of Stones River Group, a Nashville-based public affairs firm serving both Tennessee, regional and national clients. He formerly served as Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam's chief of staff, where he was his top advisor, strategist and negotiator.

During his tenure with the Haslam Administration, Mark led several legislative policy initiatives, including K-12 education reform, workers' compensation reform, civil service reform, an alternative approach to Medicaid expansion, and postsecondary education reform, including the nationally-acclaimed Tennessee Promise program.

Prior to serving in state government, Mark successfully managed Governor Haslam's first gubernatorial campaign in 2010, which led to a record-setting general election victory. He previously worked as an executive in real estate management and development and served for 16 years as a higher education leader. Over the course of his career, Mark has served as a chief development officer, chief planning officer, chief marketing officer, and as a chief financial officer�working on budgets ranging from $10 million to $30 billion.

Mark grew up in Maryville, TN and currently lives in Brentwood with his wife Cathy who serves as the Executive Director of Leadership Tennessee. He and Cathy have two daughters, Bailey who is a recent graduate at Rhodes College and currently serves as a fellow at the Crop Trust in Bonn, Germany; and Abbie who is rising junior at George Washington University.

Cate received a B.S from Carson-Newman College, an M.S from the University of Tennessee, and Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management certificate program. He's served on a wide variety of non-profit boards and was an elected member of the Maryville Board of Education.

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SARA CLEMENTS

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SARA CLEMENTS

(Florida, )

McGuireWoods Consulting

SClements@mwcllc.com
850-727-5000
115 E Park Avenue, Ste 1, Tallahassee, FL, 32301,

Subjects: All Subjects, Children/Family/Women, Corrections/Criminal Justice, Education, Health Care, Insurance, Non-Profit

Links:Website, Twitter

Sara Clements is a government affairs consultant based in Tallahassee, Florida with a strong background in PreK-12 education policy and not-for-profit work. She also has experience working in the areas of criminal justice, child welfare, postsecondary and workforce issues, healthcare, insurance, emergency management, financial services, and more.

1) 1-800 Contacts, Inc

2) Aurora Technology, Inc.

3) AXS Group LLC

4) Barnett Southern Corporation

5) Bitcoin Depot

6) BSA Business/Sofware Alliance, Inc

7) Capitol Bridge LLC

8) Central Florida Urban League

9) Diageo North America Inc.

10) DraftKings, Inc.

11) Fantasy Sports Alliance

12) Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

13) First Step of Sarasota

14) Florida Association of Mortgage Professionals

15) Florida Polytechnic University

16) Florida State Foster Adoptive Parent Association Inc

17) Hilton

18) Innovative Emergency Management, Inc.

19) International Code Council

20) Lexia Learning, Inc.

21) Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery

22) Merit International, Inc

23) National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals, Florida Chapter

24) NWEA

25) PRWT Services Inc

26) Public Insight LLC

27) ShiftMed

28) Sports Betting Alliance

29) Sunrun, Inc.

30) Systems & Methods, Inc

31) Tarpon Blue Agriculture BRP, LLC

32) Tarpon Blue Silver King 1, LLC

33) The Nature Conservancy

34) U.S. Facilities, Inc.

35) United Healthcare Services, Inc

6-10 years

Named a "30 Under 30 Rising Stars in Florida Politics" by Florida Politics in 2014

Strong relationships in the Florida Department of Education, as well as the chairs and staff of education policy and appropriations committees in both legislative chambers, and many other agencies and policy areas, including the Department of Children and Families, Department of Corrections, and more.

Sara has more than a decade of experience in education policy and government affairs, starting as a K-12 public school teacher. She thrives on helping clients achieve complex and challenging goals and has become a respected and trusted voice for education policy issues in Tallahassee.

Sara joined McGuireWoods Consulting in 2018 after six years of leading government affairs for nonprofits in Florida. Prior to MWC, Sara led external and legislative affairs for Step Up For Students, the largest K-12 scholarship funding organization in the nation. Before that, she was the Florida Legislative Affairs Director for the Foundation for Excellence in Education. In addition to education, Sara has experience in the areas of child welfare, criminal justice, juvenile justice, healthcare, insurance, and more.

In 2011, while still in the classroom, Sara was nominated for Orange County Public Schools Teacher of the Year award. By 2014, Sara was named one of "30 Under 30 Rising Stars" by Florida Politics, the state's predominant political news site.

Sara received her bachelor's degree in English Education from the University of North Florida in 2007 and her master's degree in Education Policy and Evaluation from Florida State University in 2014.

Sara is a member of Leadership Florida, the American Enterprise Institute's State Leadership Network, and co-founder of Lean In Tallahassee. In her spare time, she volunteers as a guardian ad litem in Florida's Second Judicial Circuit and fosters dogs through a local animal rescue organization. Sara lives in Tallahassee with her husband, daughter, and rescue dog.

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CJ DUNCAN

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CJ DUNCAN

(Tennessee, )

Stones River Group

cj.duncan@stonesrivergroup.com
615-645-0233
511 Union St #1100, Nashville, TN, 37219,

CJ Duncan supports SRG's government relations team, assisting in the development and execution of winning strategies to advance clients' state and local public policy objectives. Most recently, CJ worked for the government affairs division in the Montgomery, Alabama offices of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.

1) Acadia Healthcare

2) ACT

3) Advantage Capital

4) AT&T Tennessee

5) Blount Partnership

6) CareGiver of Tennessee

7) Catapult Learning

8) City Fund Action

9) Critical Nurse Staffing

10) Delta Dental of Tennessee

11) Edmentum

12) Energy Systems Group

13) Ernst & Young

14) GoGuardian

15) Graduation Alliance

16) Greater Nashville Regional Council

17) Knox County

18) Koch Companies

19) LHP Capital

20) LivaNova

21) Mark43

22) MAXIMUS

23) Merit

24) Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

25) Music City Grand Prix

26) Nashville Soccer Holdings

27) Salesforce

28) SAS Institute

29) Science Applications International Corporation

30) Southern College of Optometry

31) Spin

32) Tech901

33) The Adoption Project

34) The United Company

35) Uptown Property Holdings

36) VitalSource

37) Wolf River Harbor Holdings

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CJ Duncan supports SRG's government relations team, assisting in the development and execution of winning strategies to advance clients' state and local public policy objectives. Most recently, CJ worked for the government affairs division in the Montgomery, Alabama offices of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Previously, CJ interned for the Davidson Criminal Court under Judge Randall Wyatt.

CJ is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he majored in political science with a minor in corporate strategy. He also played wide receiver for the Vanderbilt Commodores throughout his college career. Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason called CJ "one of our most versatile and proven offensive performers, but even more than that, C.J. is very much a team-oriented player." In 2018, the Arizona Cardinals invited CJ to a rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, which resulted in CJ being signed to the Cardinals' 90-man offseason roster.