Our Team
TAG professionals have spent years cultivating experience, knowledge, and relationships gained through time spent inside White House Administrations and extensive work on Capitol Hill. In addition, many members of the TAG team have succeeded in senior level positions within federal agencies, associations, Fortune 100 corporations, entrepreneurial start-ups, and national think tanks. Many members of the TAG team have been involved in polices, solutions, and business models associated with some of the toughest problems governments and the private sector have solved over the past quarter century. We are thankful and blessed to have a team that has created, developed, won, and executed significant government related business and we hope to bring our track record of success impact our client’s outcomes.
Robert J Thompson
Chairman
(202) 349-4175
rthompson@thompsonadvisory.com
Bob is the Chairman of the Thompson Advisory Group. He advises and assists corporate and government clients on a wide range of public policy issues, lobbying campaigns, and international business ventures. He brings a long history of domestic and international market creation and market development surrounding information technology, health care, defense, homeland security, intelligence, infrastructure, and the energy industries. Bob has developed a proven track record of effective and timely client advocacy with Members of Congress, the Executive Branch, and senor business executives.
Bob provides strategic and tactical guidance to help clients navigate the complex political and business environments in which we work. With a broad network of senior executive contacts across the federal and state governments and global industry, Bob is known for his ability to quickly and effectively link clients with relevant legislative, political, executive branch, and corporate leaders to accomplish clients' business objectives. Bob’s specific areas of expertise include:
- Lobbying and government relations
- Business partnership strategy and formation
- Strategic market planning and development advisory services
- Formal and informal government legislative processes
- Governments need identification, program and policy shaping, and program creation
Prior to starting Thompson Advisory Group, Bob served as Chairman of Jefferson Consulting Group (JCG). He grew JCG is a full service, Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm representing companies and government organizations around the world. While at JCG, Bob expanded their defense, homeland security, and intelligence business. He also played a significant role in the formation and execution of policy and programs that balanced the need for security with privacy and civil liberties.
Before his role at JCG, Bob founded and ran a lobbying firm in Washington. During his fourteen years as President and Chairman of Thompson & Company, he managed a successful legislative and political consulting practice. He represented health care, trade, international business, international government, banking, and tax interests. In addition to his legislative expertise, he developed strong relationships with officials in the White House, as well as the Departments of State, Commerce, Treasury, Defense, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
Prior to Thompson & Company, Bob served as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs in the White House under President Reagan. He held this position 1983 and was the driving force behind key economic and social legislation during the Presidents first term.
Bob originally came to Washington in December 1980 after the November Reagan-Bush victory. He traveled with Candidate George Bush during the primary and then became Vice President George Bush's first Executive Assistant for Congressional Relations before moving to his White House role for President Reagan.
In addition to his work in Washington, Mr. Bob has participated in various business investments ranging from real estate to manufacturing to finance. He has also served on numerous academic, philanthropic and corporate boards.
Bob loves kids and dogs. He is the proud father of seven children – Jamee, Abby, Hallie, Ben, Caitlin, William, and Zack. His children have blessed him with nine grandchildren. He and his wife Pam also enjoy the company of six dogs.
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Abby Stewart
Attorney and Senior Policy Advisor
(202) 349-4175
astewart@thompsonadvisory.com
Ms. Stewart advises a number of information and data solution clients on the privacy and data management implications of various data collection technologies and initiatives. Having worked with both government and commercial clients, Ms. Stewart has a unique management and policy development approach to tackling the inherent challenges posed by the government’s/ industry’s need to collect information while simultaneously respecting a citizen’s privacy.
Her areas of expertise include:
- Extensive privacy policy and procedure development, compliance, and enforcement
- Information sharing policy development and compliance
- Identity authentication
- Intelligence reform
- Records standardization
- Domestic and international use of data and relevant privacy laws and regulations
- Federal privacy and data use laws and regulations
- Congressional jurisdiction of privacy issues and concerns
Currently, Ms. Stewart is focused on developing global information sharing and privacy policies for an Inter-modal Containerized Freight Security Program (ICFS). Ms. Stewart also assists Thompson Advisory Group with grant writing and federal marketing for data management clients.
Ms. Stewart has recently assisted several federal agencies, including the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) with their web privacy concerns, helping to ensure compliance with federal privacy laws and published privacy policies. Earlier in her career, Ms. Stewart worked as a government contractor for the Transportation Security Administration’s CAPPS II project where she helped the agency respond to congressional and agency inquiries and developed and implemented privacy policies and procedures.
Ms. Stewart was also a director of public policy at the Privacy Council where she helped clients develop and implement privacy policies, performed web audits for government and commercial clients to ensure compliance with privacy statements, and assisted in the development of the firm’s education, training and auditing products.
In addition, Ms. Stewart was a law clerk in the federal public defenders office in New Orleans. Louisiana, and was an intern at the Georgetown University Child Development Center.
Ms. Stewart received a juris doctor degree from Tulane University Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.
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