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Thursday, 29 August 2019
4 former political insiders create consulting firm to attract business to province
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Methinks a lot of Conservatives in New Brunswick will find it very interesting that CBC did not block any of my comments this time N'esy Pas? (At least thus far Hence no need to blog about it yet)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-fomer-politicians-consulting-firm-1.5260498
4 former political insiders create consulting firm to attract business to province
New firm set to help lure employers and fill void left by government
The four partners in Atlantic Strategies Group, including a former Liberal premier and a former Progressive Conservative finance minister, say they can fill a void left by government to help lure employers to the province.
"If I was to describe it in a sentence, we're privatizing Opportunities New Brunswick," said co-owner Andrew Dawson, referring to the provincial government's economic development agency.
"That was the whole genesis of the four of us getting together — to provide those services to the private sector."
'Role to play'
Former Liberal cabinet minister Donald Arseneault added: "We can't keep saying government's going to do all that work. We all have a role to play."The four principals in Atlantic Strategies are:
- Shawn Graham, New Brunswick's Liberal premier from 2006 to 2010 and now an international business consultant.
- Norm Betts, a business professor, Progressive Conservative cabinet minister from 1999 to 2003, and former board member of NB Power.
- Arseneault, a Liberal MLA from 2003 to 2017 who held several cabinet portfolios in the Graham and Gallant governments.
- Dawson, a one-time executive assistant to a PC cabinet minister, former construction union official and businessperson who hired Arseneault as a lobbyist for his union two years ago.
Betts and Graham could not be reached for comment.
Built 'relationships'
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said he hopes that the new firm will not lead to some potential investors in the province getting "special treatment" thanks to the connections the four owners have built up over the years.He said the four men have the potential to "sway [decisions] away from the public interest" to benefit some employers.
"If I can take the experience I've built over the years, over the last 15 years … so be it, if it means moving forward in this province."
But they both say the firm will go beyond existing requirements for transparency and will engage in lobbying "as little as possible."
Lobbying, the practice of using connections and experience to broker access to elected officials and influence their decisions, is controversial.
Not just lobbying
Arseneault left politics in 2017, earlier than planned, after accepting a part-time lobbying job in Ottawa while sitting as a backbench MLA.He said lobbying is not "the gist" of what the new company plans to do.
"If somebody wants a meeting with a government official or minister, anybody can do that,"
Arseneault said. "You don't have to be Andrew Dawson, Norm Betts, Don Arseneault or Shawn Graham to do that."
The four partners wrote a letter to acting integrity commissioner Charles Murray last week to outline their plans, promising to go beyond what lobbying and conflict-of-interest laws require.
"We have no problem being open and transparent about it," Arseneault said.
Murray would not comment Monday on their plans.
Filling a gap
Dawson said that with Premier Blaine Higgs unenthusiastic about corporate subsidies and Opportunities New Brunswick recently eliminating 24 positions, the four consultants can fill the gap by advising companies on setting up shop in the province."There was a void there in the marketplace," Dawson said. "There are services that the private sector is willing to pay for. If the government proceeds to create the environment for economic growth, what can we do as private citizens to facilitate it?"
"If Malcolm Bricklin were to land here today with his idea, we'd send him away quite quickly."
The company already has about 10 clients in sectors including energy, cannabis, health care, labour and transportation. One of them is ARC Nuclear, a business hoping to manufacture small, modular nuclear reactors for NB Power.
New jobs
Dawson and Arseneault recently left their positions with Canada's Building Trades Unions, the labour group that hired Arseneault in 2017. The two men are longtime acquaintances.Though the province's lobbying and conflict-of-interest laws didn't prohibit Arseneault's 2017 hiring while he remained an MLA, then-premier Brian Gallant said the perception of a conflict was a problem.
He pushed Arseneault to give up the job or face expulsion from the Liberal caucus.
Former MLAs are also banned from lobbying for a year after they leave office, a period that has elapsed for Arseneault.
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68 Comments
David Amos
Methinks many people are laughing as hard as I am right now N'esy Pas?
Ray Bungay
I sure hope someone in Government is guarding the hen house!!
David Amos
Anthony Lyons
I wound trust none of them
Marc Tremblay
Eww...
David Amos
Mack Leigh
Methinks the NB taxpayers are about to be fleeced !!
David Amos
Roland Stewart
Yup, I believe every word. LOL
Lou Bell
Money , Money, Money , Moneahhh ! Following Trump template . ACOA must be announcing BIGLY money available !
David Amos
Lou Bell
Oh OH !! Atcon coming back ?????
David Amos
Their past actions speaks volumes and it does not bode well for the NB taxpayers....Quite evidently by their collective history there will not be a shred of integrity , ethics or strength of character in the lot..
For this type of thing to bear fruit you need to be "connected". If you carefully notice all the bases are covered, both Liberal, and CONServative.
This is going to cost us LARGE, and we won't be able to shake it, some might say "the fixx is in".
Brian Robertson
Oh look!
New Brunswick has it's very own swamp.
I'm not anti anything.
My message is one of unity and creating a future for the common good.
I emphasize what we have in common.
You and your ilk strive to create a separate future that favors a select few.
Matt Steele
One thing is for sure ; former politicians ALWAYS return to the taxpayer funded trough so that they can fill their pockets even more with taxpayer cash . It is surprising that Jack Keir and Frank McKenna are not in on the deal as well . Some things just never change in N.B. .
David Amos
Perhaps they are both " Silent " partners ??
Rod McLeod
Cha-ching! These guys just scored some serious money.
David Amos
Joseph Vacher
Sean Graham back in power in NB :( this will not, and can not, end well
David Amos
Robert L. Brown
The only word i would have for this bunch is DISGUSTING
David Amos
Ben Haroldson
Lot of union execs not much interested in helping the working man anymore. Matter of fact, double dipping has become common practice in the union executive. At one time it was the #1 ta boo. Gr eed is rif e evrywhere.
Unions work hard in undermining low skill, cheap labour by pushing minimum wage laws.
Evan Day
Lol. Hilarious. So they're basically setting themselves up to compete with Opportunities NB. The happy benefit for them is lining their own pockets. I very much doubt they're doing this for the good of New Brunswick.
Give that man a prize.
Archie Levesque
Best laugh I've had in awhile. Who else are they going to bring on board? Vic Boudreau? Brian Gallant?
David Amos
JJ Carrier
No Rayburn?
Robert L. Brown
David Peters
An exposè into how much NB taxpayer's are paying for 'consultants', with lots of details, would be interesting.
David Amos
Stephanie Haslam
Any doubt that there is any discernible difference, between these two, old mainstream parties can be laid to rest. It will be very interesting to see what comes out of this alliance. Here is a quote for the day-- make of it what you will: "Cronyism is ugly. It hurts the economy, it’s unjust, and corrupts the core of democracy. “The damage that cronyism has inflicted on the economy is considerable,” Samuel Gregg writes in a new piece for Public Discourse. “[C]ronyism also creates significant political challenges that, thus far, Western democracies are struggling to overcome.” https://blog.acton.org/archives/85492-just-how-bad-is-crony-capitalism.html
David Amos
NOW
Ray Bungay
I sure hope someone in Government is guarding the hen house!!
Anthony Lyons
I wound trust none of them
Marc Tremblay
Eww...
Mack Leigh
Methinks the NB taxpayers are about to be fleeced !!
Roland Stewart
Yup, I believe every word. LOL
Lou Bell
Money , Money, Money , Moneahhh ! Following Trump template . ACOA must be announcing BIGLY money available !
Lou Bell
Oh OH !! Atcon coming back ?????
Their past actions speaks volumes and it does not bode well for the NB taxpayers....Quite evidently by their collective history there will not be a shred of integrity , ethics or strength of character in the lot..
For this type of thing to bear fruit you need to be "connected". If you carefully notice all the bases are covered, both Liberal, and CONServative.
This is going to cost us LARGE, and we won't be able to shake it, some might say "the fixx is in".
Brian Robertson
Oh look!
New Brunswick has it's very own swamp.
I'm not anti anything.
My message is one of unity and creating a future for the common good.
I emphasize what we have in common.
You and your ilk strive to create a separate future that favors a select few.
Matt Steele
One thing is for sure ; former politicians ALWAYS return to the taxpayer funded trough so that they can fill their pockets even more with taxpayer cash . It is surprising that Jack Keir and Frank McKenna are not in on the deal as well . Some things just never change in N.B. .
Perhaps they are both " Silent " partners ??
Joseph Vacher
Sean Graham back in power in NB :( this will not, and can not, end well
Robert L. Brown
The only word i would have for this bunch is DISGUSTING
Evan Day
Lol. Hilarious. So they're basically setting themselves up to compete with Opportunities NB. The happy benefit for them is lining their own pockets. I very much doubt they're doing this for the good of New Brunswick.
Give that man a prize.
Archie Levesque
Best laugh I've had in awhile. Who else are they going to bring on board? Vic Boudreau? Brian Gallant?
David Peters
An exposè into how much NB taxpayer's are paying for 'consultants', with lots of details, would be interesting.
Stephanie Haslam
Any doubt that there is any discernible difference, between these two, old mainstream parties can be laid to rest. It will be very interesting to see what comes out of this alliance. Here is a quote for the day-- make of it what you will: "Cronyism is ugly. It hurts the economy, it’s unjust, and corrupts the core of democracy. “The damage that cronyism has inflicted on the economy is considerable,” Samuel Gregg writes in a new piece for Public Discourse. “[C]ronyism also creates significant political challenges that, thus far, Western democracies are struggling to overcome.” https://blog.acton.org/archives/85492-just-how-bad-is-crony-capitalism.html
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OpenCorporates appoints new CEO to strengthen its leadership in transparent company data
Sarah Arana-Morton succeeds founder Chris Taggart, as OpenCorporates targets ambitious growth in emerging transparent company data market
Aug 02, 2021, 08:00 ET
Arana-Morton succeeds Chris Taggart, the company's founder and former CEO, who grew OpenCorporates from an idea 10 years ago into a key part of the world's data infrastructure.
OpenCorporates has grown to serve over 400 enterprise clients and to attract millions of monthly users to its online platform, OpenCorporates.com. As COO, Arana-Morton was responsible for establishing a new go to market organisation to accelerate growth of an already strong US client base, including government agencies, technology platforms, financial organisations and professional services firms, who all depend on the standardised, provenanced and transparent company data that is needed in our data-driven world.
Arana-Morton commented: "I'm proud to be taking OpenCorporates into a new era, where we are positioned as a leader with a decade of industry experience in delivering value from transparent company data. It is more important than ever to know exactly who you are in business with and this fundamental dataset about companies should be available to everyone. At OpenCorporates we are redefining the company data landscape".
Chris Taggart, who will step into a new role of Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, said: "OpenCorporates' public benefit mission of opening up company data for all has never been more important – for society and for business. As business moves towards this new norm, OpenCorporates is rapidly scaling-up – and Sarah is the ideal leader to take us forward in this next stage of our journey".
"The Covid pandemic highlights that organisations need to understand who they're doing business with at the legal entity level", said Oliver Ratzesberger, Chair of OpenCorporates' Operating Board. "Sarah's experience, drive and customer focus make her the ideal candidate to lead OpenCorporates at this pivotal time", he added.
About Sarah Arana-Morton
Sarah is a business leader who brings nearly 20 years' experience of growing businesses and building high performing teams in the data industry. Prior to her appointment as OpenCorporates' CEO, she served as its Chief Operating Officer for four years, significantly growing the company's client base and more recently building out its first operations in the US. Prior to OpenCorporates, Sarah served in global leadership roles at dunnhumby, a data science company, having developed business units across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US from the beginning.
About OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates is revolutionising access to company data, and with it changing the world for the better. OpenCorporates has built the largest open database of companies in the world, containing information on almost 200 million companies in 140 jurisdictions – all from primary public sources. Our data is more transparent, fresh and fit for purpose than legacy Black Box business information vendors, which is why millions of users and hundreds of organisations rely on it at scale. Experienced leaders on our Operating Board drive our success, and world-class trustees on the OpenCorporates Trust protect our public benefit mission.
To maximise its success, OpenCorporates has established an Operating Board with industry expertise in data and cloud technologies, as well as experience of scaling up companies. The Board includes Oliver Ratzesberger, former Teradata CEO, Julia Apostle, a technology lawyer formerly of Twitter and the FT, Sarah Arana-Morton, the CEO of OpenCorporates and Alessia Falsarone, an expert in sustainable investments, as well as Chris Taggart, OpenCorporates' founder.
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Our Team
Sarah Arana-Morton
Chief Executive Officer
Sarah is a data industry leader who brings nearly 20 years’ experience. She previously served in global leadership and board directorship roles at dunnhumby, a data science company, and more recently as the Chief Operating Officer of OpenCorporates.
Chris Taggart
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Chris founded OpenCorporates and is its Chief Strategy Officer. He is an experienced entrepreneur (having previously run and founded successful magazines companies), and is an acknowledged expert on global company data, particularly corporate identifiers.
Rebecca Lee
Chief Impact Officer
Rebecca joined OpenCorporates after 11 years running Forensic Investigations for PwC and Deloitte: using data to detect, investigate, prevent and remediate crime. The opportunities to tackle crime through OpenCorporates data for the wider public good inspired her to join the team. Outside of work, she loves spending time outside with her family, Land Rovers, Scouting events and her aquarium.
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Andrew Dunn
Chief Technology Officer
Andrew leads all our innovative technology efforts. He brings almost 20 years of experience, having led product-centric and cloud native transformation programmes whilst serving as CTO at a variety of companies – including Arachnys and Smarsh.
Tannah Matus
Chief Financial Officer
Tannah is a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) with seven years' experience at SMEs covering financial, strategic and operational decision making. More recently, he was a consultant FD/CFO to a number to start-ups & high growth SMEs.
Chloe Trenchard
Chief Human Resources Officer
Chloe spent 15 years in a variety of human resources related roles at American Express, from business partner to recruiter and change manager. Chloe moved into the high-tech scale up world when she joined Treatwell as Group HR Director and recently completed an M&A project for Legal & General. Outside of work Chloe loves spending time with her family, walking her dog and playing tennis.
Ralph Vossmeyer
Chief Revenue Officer
Ralph brings a 20 year track record of transforming sales functions to accelerate growth. He leads our customer-centric sales culture to ensure our disruptive data platform gives our customers a competitive advantage. Previously, Vossmeyer was a General Manager and executive leader at Teradata, where he led sales and delivery teams to generate over $270 million in annual revenues.
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Oliver Ratzesberger
Chairperson
Oliver is an executive business leader and technologist with over 30 years' experience at tech companies such as Teradata and eBay, as well as board positions at Tech San Diego and the University of California San Diego. Having previously held CEO, COO & CPO roles, Oliver led a variety of company and product transformations. He has delivered keynotes on data and tech and co-authored a book that made The Wall Street Journal Best Seller List.
Sarah Arana-Morton
Chief Executive Officer
Sarah is a business leader who brings nearly 20 years’ experience of growing businesses and building high performing teams in the data industry. Prior to her appointment as OpenCorporates’ CEO, she served as its Chief Operating Officer for four years, significantly growing the company’s client base. Sarah served in global leadership roles at dunnhumby, a data science company, having developed business units across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the US from the beginning.
Chris Taggart
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Chris founded OpenCorporates and is its Chief Strategy Officer. He is an experienced entrepreneur, having previously run and founded successful magazines companies, and is an acknowledged expert on global company data, particularly corporate identifiers.
Julia Apostle
Non-Executive Director
Julia brings almost 20 years of experience spanning the intersection between law, technology and data from the likes of Twitter and the Financial Times. In addition to her Non-Executive Director role at OpenCorporates, she is a partner in the Tech Transactions group of the law firm Orrick, supporting their Cyber, Privacy and Data Innovation teams.
Alessia Falsarone
Non-Executive Director
As a sustainable finance expert, Alessia brings to OpenCorporates over two decades of asset management and corporate advisory experience spanning three continents. A fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, she is an advisor to the London Stock Exchange with focus on capital markets’ participation in promoting responsible business practices. Alessia holds a certified corporate director status by NACD.
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Patrick Alley
Co-founder and director of Global Witness, the world’s leading anti-corruption NGO. Since co-founding Global Witness in 1993, Patrick has taken part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe and in subsequent advocacy activities.
Esther Dyson
Executive founder of Wellville and chairman of EDventure Holdings, Esther is an active angel investor, best-selling author, board member and advisor concentrating on emerging markets and technologies, new space and health.
John Githongo
John is a veteran anti-corruption investigator, whose fight is told in Michela Wrong’s book It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower. He is now the CEO of Inuka, a Kenyan grass-roots NGO working to create an informed citizenry.
Mike Olson
Mike co-founded Cloudera in 2008, serving as its CEO until 2013 and as its chief strategy officer (CSO) until June of 2019. He was also heavily involved in setting up the Cloudera Foundation in 2017, and was Chair of the board of Datakind, which encourages the use of data science to solve humanitarian challenges.
Emma Prest
Emma is the Chief Technology Officer at the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of DataKind UK. With a background in civic technology, she works at the intersection of data, strategy, investigations and non-profit management.
Jane Wales
Jane Wales is CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum and World Affairs, vice-president of the Aspen Institute, and host of the nationally-syndicated National Public Radio interview show World Affairs. Wales is the former Associate Director of the White House Office of Science Technology Policy, and Senior Director of the National Security Council.
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OpenCorporates Reviews
- Former Employee, more than 1 yearRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness Outlook
Pros
OpenCorporates has a unique corporate culture that is different from any other company culture I have experienced in my 20+ years in sales. Employees and leadership value and live by the company's core values and the culture is one of open communication, teamwork and helping each other succeed. Decisions are made quickly to remove roadblocks and company is very customer centric.
Cons
Small company growing fast with typical challenges with growing pains (e.g. resources, keeping up with demand, and not enough personnel)
Advice to Management
Great talent, employees are passionate and want to be there. One of the best things about OC is the people that make the corporate culture unique - it is rare to find this in other companies and not easy to replicate.
★★★★★Current EmployeeRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great mission, friendly team, and amazing benefits.
Cons
No cons, I am very happy with my role.
Continue readingJoin the OpenCorporates team - ★★★★★
OpenCorporates Response
People Advisor
Thank you for your review. We were disappointed to read it and, while there is always room for improvement, we struggle to recognise your concerns. We have policies in place to support our colleagues returning from leaves of absence and we believe in developing and nurturing our talent. We want to hear people’s feedback and we want to show we care. In addition, we have recently implemented leader training to develop the skills of our people leaders. This in turn helps to develop the team at all levels, and allows our leaders to manage their teams in the most effective ways possible. We have made several positive appointments, including a new CEO, CTO and CHRO in the last 12 months. These, plus other key leadership hires, have allowed us to improve processes and knowledge sharing and retention throughout the organisation.
- ★★★★★
OpenCorporates Response
Thank you for your review, we value the feedback of former team members - they actually show how far we have come! As a Tech firm with Mission & Ambition we’re really proud of the culture we are building. We are rapidly scaling and have a brand-new CEO, CTO and CHRO as well as other new leadership hires across the business. We work hard to create a nurturing culture, we oppose all forms of bullying and we have robust policies in place should any issues arise. A recent survey of our team found that the flexibility we offer in terms of work/life balance and our leadership team were amongst the top scoring areas.
- ★★★★★
Pros
It's not often you find a business with such potential, with such opportunity as an individual to contribute to the future success of a business. There are plenty of warts, but a renewed vigour and direction to build a more scalable foundation with which to ride the success if a breath of fresh air - you just need confidence to contribute or simply ask for help.
Cons
The past seems to hold the business back a little, personalities and past choices, lots of 'well we used to do it like this' comments, but when we are given the chance to think differently or think a fresh - then everyone seems to have a contribution and thrives on the opportunity.
Pros
Some really great colleagues but most of them have now left.
Cons
A cruel and ignorant employer. They treat people very badly, hence a high churn of employees. The leadership team micromanages their staff and I have witnessed colleagues coming back to work from illness or parental leave to be immediately fired or demoted. Almost all skilful and experienced colleagues I worked with have now left due to incompetent and “we don’t care about you” management. There is no talent management as in looking after and developing the people they have. There is no self-awareness or insight in the management team of the consequences of their actions - they are only interested in themselves. This is a tiny organisation so each time someone with key knowledge leaves, they are set back and have to start again. I cannot recommend this place to anyone.
Advice to Management
Stop micromanaging, and treat people with respect and dignity.
Pros
It's a fantastic mission. Truly important. And with with financial customers, it has good solid funding (mostly) without selling out to them.
Cons
The overbearing bullying nature of the big boss is something you'll come to experience to a greater or lesser extent depending on your position, but you'll never truly escape it. If he doesn't bully directly he'll find a way to do it by proxy.
Pros
- Sarah Arana-Morton is fantastic. She has time for all employees and listens to suggestions and concerns. Her vision for OpenCorporates is clear and she inspires confidence when she speaks on it. Very glad to have her at the helm. - The company in general is very focused on its people. We are made to feel valued and the sentiments coming from management about taking care of ourselves and each other are genuine. - The work has important real world implications - it's great to be able to brag to friends about being involved with things like the Pandora Papers! - Remote first organisation with the option of working in TOG locations gives great flexibility. - Open to promoting from within - those who have demonstrated capabilities have been given positions of greater responsibility.
Cons
- There is a lot of work to go around and you have to be very conscious of your own work/life balance. Especially pertinent when working from home most of the time.
Pros
OpenCorporates has a very rare balance of altruistic mission and big commercial ambition. There's so much opportunity for those who want to make a difference at a societal and commercial level simultaneously, and to progress as the company grows. The leadership team is focussed and highly capable, as well as being supportive for the wider team. They are fostering a fun, inclusive but hard-working culture. Everyone's opinion is heard, welcomed and actioned upon. The working style is really progressive and flexible - there's a lot to get done but you will be given the space to work in a style that suits you. You'll be missed Team OC!
Cons
This is a growing business and as such requires a fast pace of working, which won't be for everyone.
Pros
Like some other reviews, I too read the bad ones before I got hired but I've decided to see for myself. The changes that they've done to address those issues are real and since I've got hired I haven't experienced anything described by the older reviews. Instead I've found a place where you are given flexibility, trust, responsibility, and support. I am very happy here and I would recommend to people that would like to work here, to have a chat with any of our team members to convince themselves.
Cons
Scaling up the business to fit the vision is definitely a challenge that people are happy to work towards.
Advice to Management
Keep doing what you're doing: Listening to people, supporting them, empowering them and offer them flexibility! Great job!
Pros
I read the Glassdoor reviews a few hours after meeting the team and doing my in-person interview (previously had one remote interview), and found it hard to recognise the company described here. It definitely seems like they have worked hard to change the perception of the company. Various C-level managers have been hired to spread the work load, and it appears to be helping elevate stress across multiple teams. I don't think any company is perfect, but I think ones that actually act on the Advice to Management comments are better than ones that choose to ignore them. There's clearly been a shift in management, culture, and attitudes. OpenCorporates is a great place to work. It's small enough to feel like you're an important cog of the machine, but large enough to have structure and commitments. Some of the best bits are: Great team, regular social events, good location, £1,000 learning budget, and remote work.
Cons
Perhaps I haven't been here long enough to reveal all the cracks in the wood. But for now, I have minimal complaints. The company is very ambitious, but they also take the time to reward hard work, which is appreciated.
Advice to Management
The change in attitudes is obvious from recent hirings and various schemes. You're absolutely heading in the right direction, and I wish you the best for keeping it up.
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Annual Lobbying by Atlantic Strategies Group
Groups That Have Retained Atlantic Strategies Group in 2022
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| Client | Total | Subsidiary (Lobbied For) | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tactical Air Support Inc | $10,000 | - | Misc Defense |
| Trideum Corp | $10,000 | - | Misc Defense |
| TriWest Healthcare Alliance | $20,000 | - | Health Services |
| Warrior Protection & Readiness Coalition | $20,000 | - | Misc Issues |
| Wildlife Computers | <$5000 | - | Unknown Business |
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