Geoff Gray has more than 35 years of experience in federal government policy, lobbying, crisis management, communications and branding for policymakers. His experience includes subject matter expertise in financial services, technology, data security and privacy. In 2002, Gray founded the Gray Company, a government relations consulting and lobbying practice. Gray Co. has represented fortune 50 companies as well as some of the world’s largest financial, technology and business trade associations, before the U.S. Congress, the Administration and independent regulatory agencies. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Gray served as a senior aide to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, under Chairman Phil Gramm (R-TX). Mr. Gray was a lead staff negotiator on behalf of Chairman Gramm throughout the process that culminated in the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. That Act, known most for its landmark privacy and cybersecurity standards, repealed depression-era restrictions separating the businesses of banking, securities and insurance. Gramm-Leach-Bliley was the first comprehensive rewrite of the financial laws in 60 years, and was in many ways the opposite of the Dodd-Frank Act – a permissive rather than restrictive law. Gray Co. occupies the space where financial services meets technology, representing an even split between financial services clients and technology clients, specifically data-intensive companies concerned with security and privacy. Gray was the principal staff negotiator for the Senate Banking Committee on the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act -- the law enacted in 2000 that permits electronic disclosures and records of financial transactions to carry the full force of law at the federal level. The technology side of Gray Company's business brings experience with the Commerce, Judiciary, Oversight, and Homeland Security Committees as a compliment to financial services. Gray has prepared witnesses for Senate confirmation, as well as for testifying in confrontational circumstances around Congressional investigations and legislative battles. Prior to the Banking Committee, Mr. Gray spent six years as the Director of Government Relations for the Association of Financial Services Holding Companies, at the time the trade association for large, diversified and industrial companies that own financial institutions, such as Industrial Loan Companies, nonbank-banks, credit card banks and unitary thrift holding companies. As chief lobbyist for the Association, Mr. Gray spearheaded the Association’s regulatory and legislative efforts. From 1986 to 1992, Mr. Gray was a Legislative Specialist with the tax firm of Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C. Gray splits his time between Bethesda, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Sun Valley, Idaho, with his wife and three children.