April 6, 2016 -- Forward Observer is pleased to announce that Greg Scanlon and Kris Anderson have joined the Washington office of Forward Observer as senior consultants.

Greg and Kris will support the firm’s private and nonprofit sector clients with research and strategy consulting. They join our Washington office, which opened in 2011 and focuses on national issues and federal legislation, policy and regulation.

Greg Scanlon has over a decade of political experience at the federal, state and local level, working with campaigns, political committees, state parties and independent expenditure groups. During the 2013-14 election cycle, Greg served as research director for the Democratic Governors Association, where he established and ran the committee’s first in-house opposition research department through 38 gubernatorial elections.

Kris Anderson has nearly a decade of experience working at the highest levels of American politics. A veteran of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid, Kris served as the campaign’s Research Director. Most recently, Kris served as Research Director and Deputy Communications Director at the Republican National Committee, leading their 15-person research team.

"Looking ahead to 2017, Congress and the next Administration will consider a range of issues important to trade associations, companies, nonprofits and other organizations,” said Joseph Rodota, CEO and founder of Forward Observer, which also has an office in Sacramento, California. “Kris and Greg are smart, seasoned researchers with unmatched experience framing effective, fact-based narratives and arguments."

Greg and Kris will continue to retain their own independent partisan consultantices.