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Thomas Worrall
Master's Degree in Political Management, 1995

Tom Worrall is co-founder of Whitmer & Worrall, LLC, a government relations and strategic consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Worrall has played a substantial and active role in national politics for over fourteen years. He is a respected political professional with an impressive nationwide political and corporate network.

Worrall has served as the lead strategist and lobbyist for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as some of America's most well-known technology, homeland security and healthcare concerns. He has successfully guided many of his clients' top legislative and public policy priorities within the federal marketplace, including assistance with dozens of appropriations and federal marketing initiatives. Worrall has extensive ties with the current House and Senate leadership and with senior public policy staff on Capitol Hill. He also enjoys a close working relationship with many of the highest-ranking officials in the current Bush Administration, including officials in The White House and federal agencies.

From 1999 through 2004, Worrall was a senior executive with The Rhoads Group (previously Boland & Madigan, Inc.), a mid-size government relations firm in Washington, D.C. Most recently he served as the firm's Senior Vice President and was the head of the technology and homeland security practice areas. He played a key role in growing the client base and doubling the revenue of the firm in less than three years.

In addition to Worrall's extensive government relations experience, he also is known as a successful Republican Party fundraiser. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Worrall earned the distinction of becoming a “Bush Maverick” for his fundraising efforts and was featured in Influence as “one of President Bush's elite fundraisers.” Currently, he is a member of the National Finance Committee for the Republican Governor's Association.

In 1997, Worrall was recruited to lead TEAM 100, the Republican National Committee's premier fundraising entity. Under his direction, working closely with RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson and Republican leaders nationwide, TEAM 100 greatly exceeded its $20 plus million fundraising goal during the 1997-1998-election cycle. While at TEAM 100, he also spearheaded the RNC's outreach to America's leading technology industries, forming the RNC Technology Advisory Board.

From 1991 until he joined the Republican National Committee, Worrall worked around the country as a senior political and campaign operative. He has served as a chief strategist and campaign manager for candidates running for the United States Senate, the United States Congress, and at the state level.

Worrall has been a regular speaker on the American political process and has served the last six years as an adjunct professor of campaign management at the George Washington University. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he earned a Master's degree in Political Management from The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management in 1995, and an undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire.