Introduction

Penn Lincoln Strategies is a full-service government relations and public affairs consulting firm that specializes in utilizing the decades of experience its team brings to your company or association's needs. Whether it's executing a comprehensive legislative agenda or managing a communications crisis PLS is prepared to give you and your matter the attention and dedication it needs to achieve the level of success you expect.

Clients

1) 50CAN National

2) American Investment Council

3) Analytics Labs

4) Blackstone Administrative Services Partnership

5) Carvana, Inc.

6) Connecticut Canna Food and Beverage Alliance Corporation

7) Connecticut Farm Bureau Association

8) Critical Response Group, Inc.

9) CT Daily Newspapers Assoc.

10) DJI Technology Inc.

11) EarnIn

12) Effective School Solutions

13) Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund

14) Expedia Group Inc

15) FaithActs for Education

16) FanFreedom

17) General Cigar Company

18) Healthcare Distribution Alliance

19) LKQ Corporation

20) Mastercard

21) Monster Beverage Corporation

22) O&G Industries, Inc.

23) Open Communities Alliance

24) Petrogas US | AppleGreen

25) Phantom Fireworks

26) PMI Global Services Inc. and Affiliates

27) Small Business Finance Association

28) SouthCoast Wind Energy LLC

29) The Flower House

30) Turo, Inc.

31) Workday, Inc.

Number of Years as a Lobbyist

15-20 years

Relationships

Penn Lincoln Strategies has fostered many relationships with members of the Connecticut legislature, General Assembly staffers, the Office of the Governor, the Office of the Attorney General, the Secretary of State and agency heads.

Biography

Chris, as the Founder and CEO of Penn Lincoln Strategies, LLC (PLS), oversees government relations and strategic communications for his firms' multitude of clients. PLS specializes in providing its clients with streamlined and precise consultation for all of their public affairs and advocacy needs. The firm advises client interests before state legislatures around the country, specializing primarily in the Connecticut legislature while, for some clients, managing their day-to-day association operations and providing strategic communications counsel on how to manage press inquiries and crisis communications/public relations.

PLS, established by Chris in 2016, is a full service firm that is proud of the commitment and professionalism it provides its clients.

Before PLS' founding, Chris worked as the Director of Government Relations for Connecticut based company, TicketNetwork, overseeing and managing the company's government relations for all 50 states and the federal government. In concert with the company's legal department and C-Suite, Chris oversaw a robust consultation and travel budget while managing a network of nearly two dozen national government relations and public relations consultants and professionals.

Prior to joining TicketNetwork in 2015, Chris spent over twelve years with the government relations firm Tobin, Carberry, O'Malley, Riley and Salinger (TCORS) a Hartford, CT based firm that specializes in association management and government relations. In the role of Principal, Chris led daily legislative management for dozens of clients on wide ranging issues from environmental regulation to state budgetary issues, gambling issues to freedom of press matters before the Connecticut State Legislature.

Chris got his start in the political field nearly twenty years ago as a political and campaign consultant on numerous successful local and statewide races in Connecticut.

Chris has a B.S. in Political Science from Ohio Dominican University and currently lives in West Hartford, CT with his wife, Maureen, their son Jake and the family dog, Ripken. Chris is an avid Ohio State Buckeyes fan and believes that Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie.

Last Updated: March 28, 2024