Staffers with Resumes

Bio, via Protect the Harvest:

Brian Klippenstein is Executive Director of Protect the Harvest. Brian grew up in Northwest Missouri on a 5,000 acre registered beef cattle farm. He’s worked for ranches and shown cattle from Canada to Argentina. While studying at George Washington University, Brian was Captain of the Varsity Rowing Team and began work part-time on Capitol Hill. After graduating with a degree in Business, Economics and Public Policy, he continued what became a 26-year career working for Congressman Tom Coleman, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt and U.S. Senator Kit Bond, the final five years for whom he was Chief of Staff. Brian and his wife Jackie have two kids and live on a small livestock farm outside of Platte City, MO. For additional fun and adventure, Brian is a competitive off-shore sailboat racer and has completed over 50 marathons, including over a dozen 50-milers and four single-day 100-milers…all fueled by a high-protein diet centered around nutrient-dense red meat.

Bio, via Export-Import Bank of the United States:

Mr. Law worked with the Presidential Transition Team for the Office of the General Counsel and the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign where he helped build a broad-based, grassroots coalition to support the integrity of the electoral process. Jesse has over 10 years of top-level political experience managing campaigns, including work as a general consultant, senior advisor for government affairs, and chief of staff. Also during his career, Jesse worked for ten years in banking as a residential lender, and as an executive to his own medical staffing agency provided over one hundred employees and contractors to the western Kansas hospital market. Jesse studied at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the School of Music, where he became a classically trained opera singer. He lives in Washington D.C., has three children, and continues to enjoy the arts and performing on a regular basis.

Bio, via Gibbons Law:

Mr. Marella has extensive experience in representing public and private companies, financial institutions, and governmental agencies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset purchase transactions, corporate governance matters, credit facilities, public finance, contract drafting, cross-border transactions, and general corporate matters. In 2017, Mr. Marella received a presidential political appointment to serve in the leadership role of Advisor to the Executive Director of the President’s Commission, serving in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a component of the Executive Office of the President. In that role, he advised Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, as he chaired the bipartisan President’s Commission on Combatting Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which pursuant to an executive order was to study the scope and effectiveness of the Federal response to the opioid crisis and to make recommendations to President Donald J. Trump for improving that response. In addressing the historic health crisis, Mr. Marella collaborated with officials from the White House, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Security Council.