Michelle Seger, legislative counsel for Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., has been named senior associate at the public affairs and government relations firm, Venn Strategies, LLC. The firm has also hired JoHannah Torkelson as vice president. Torkelson works for the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition.

JoHannah Torkelson, Michelle Seger join Venn Strategies

Venn Strategies, LLC, a leading national public affairs and government relations firm, announced several key hires today, including incoming Vice President JoHannah Torkelson and new Senior Associate Michelle Seger.

Venn Strategies, LLC, a leading national public affairs and government relations firm, announced today that Michael Spira has joined the firm as a Vice President. Spira brings more than fifteen years of political and policy experience, having most recently served as a senior lobbyist at the American Pharmacist Association.  He was previously Chief of Staff for former Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Deputy Chief of Staff for Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO).

Business groups that represent multinational corporations, like the Business Roundtable, have gotten a lot of the attention as opposition to those rules has grown. But groups like the S Corporation Association, which represents businesses that aren’t usually associated with earnings stripping, are trying to more loudly make their case that the rules would affect a wide cross-section of companies.

We don’t often agree with President Obama’s chief economist, Jason Furman, but he got it exactly right when he noted earlier this month that the U.S. treatment of international business income is a “stupid territorial tax system.”

Companies have been steering away from the corporate side of the U.S. tax code to be treated more like lower-taxed individuals since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The tax package Congress passed last week could keep the trend going.

Venn Strategies has promoted Jessica Layson Davis to vice president and Michael Lanza to assistant vice president. Layson Davis, who specializes in healthcare issues, joined the firm last year. She previously lobbied for the American Academy of Physician Assistants and worked as legislative director for Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.). Lanza specializes in financial services policy and formerly worked for House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.).

Public affairs and government relations firm Venn Strategies celebrated its new downtown office last night, welcoming Reps. Richard Neal, Erik Paulsen and Ron Kind; Henry Waxman; Grover Norquist; Albert Gore with SolarCity; Maya Birmingham with Regenergon; Sean Donohue with Eli Lilly; Mike Mattoon with Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Naveen Parmar with Nationwide; Payson Peabody with SIFMA; Nick Shipley with PhRMA; and Mike Sozan with the Center of American Progress.

Venn Strategies promoted three: Matt Pearce to vice president, Natascha Cumberlidge to assistant vice president and Chelsea Doubleday to associate. The firm also announced a pair of hires. Brian Beaty, who worked at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will serve as a senior associate. Erica White, who formerly worked in the press shop of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joins the shop as an associate.

VENN STRATEGIES ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS, HIRES: Venn Strategies has promoted Matt Pearce to vice president, Natascha Cumberlidge to assistant vice president and Chelsea Doubleday to associate. The firm also announced that it had hired two new members to its team — Brian Beaty, who joined as a senior associate from public affairs firm Burness, and Erica White, who joined as an associate from public affairs firm Blakey & Agnew. Pearce joined the firm in 2013 from the U.S. Green Building Council and before that served as a legislative aide to former Rep. Earl Pomeroy.

Venn Strategies, LLC, a leading public affairs and government relations firm named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. 5000, announced today it promoted Matt Pearce to Vice President, Natascha Cumberlidge to Assistant Vice President and Chelsea Doubleday to Associate. The firm also announced that it had hired two new members to its team: Brian Beaty, who joined as a Senior Associate, and Erica White, who joined as an Associate.