As NGP’s Senior National Account Executive, Sam works with campaigns with ranging levels of experience to help them hit the ground running every day, and Sam has experience working on campaigns of all levels. For Dean for America, Sam acted as the Vermont State Coordinator, and he served as the Burlington Democratic County Chair. Sam also ran his own winning campaign for School Board, and he acts as the head of Vermonters for a Democratic Governor PAC. In 2007, Sam joined NGP when his employer, Win Campaigns was acquired by NGP.

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Chris Casey is Vice President of Online Campaigns at NGP Software, a political technology firm that serves Democrats and progressive organizations. Chris manages the design and development of the online campaigns for NGP's clients, and provides strategic consulting to guide their use of the Internet for online activism and fundraising.

Prior to joining NGP in 2004, Chris ran his own consulting business, casey.com where he worked to help Democratic candidates and office holders to utilize the Internet. From 1992 - 2000, Chris worked in the United States Senate, helping to bring Congress into the Information Age. He was employed by the Democratic Technology & Communications Committee where he helped Senators to use the Internet to communicate with their constituents and prior to that, he was Technology Policy Advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy, who Chris helped to make the first member of Congress to have a web site.

Since his first online campaign with Kennedy in 1994, Chris has continued to work with Democratic candidates to further develop the art of the online campaign. He has worked at the last four Democratic National Conventions, helping to reach the online audience.

Chris is the author of the book, The Hill on the Net: Congress Enters the Information Age (AP Professional, 1996). He is married to the amazing Jennifer, with whom he is raising their three swell kids.

Jen has spent almost fifteen years in the political, non-profit, and media sectors. Prior to joining EMILY's List, Jen spent four years at Teach For America, leading a team that created a culture of political action and civic engagement among Teach For America's more than 30,000 corps members and alumni, inspiring and preparing them to run and serve in elected office and take on leadership roles in policy and advocacy throughout the country. Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Jen's team inspired corps members and alumni in more than 35 regions -- from rural towns in the Mississippi Delta to cities like NYC and Los Angeles and everywhere in between - to see politics as a critical lever for ending educational inequity, and brought a new group of committed young leaders, armed with their experience in classrooms, into politics. Jen's team grew the number of alumni in elected office from 6 to 41, more that quadrupled the percentage of alumni who plan to run for office, built a national program customized in each of 35 regions, trained more than 200 alumni, and supervised the launching of Teach For America's related 501c4 organization, Leadership for Educational Equity, which to date counts one-third of the alumni base as members.

Jen served as a spokesperson for the NY State Democratic Committee and held leadership roles on numerous campaigns, including Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker's nationally recognized 2002 campaign and former US Secretary of Labor Bob Reich's Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign; prior to joining Teach For America, she supervised communications, press, policy, research, and advance for Fernando Ferrer's NYC Mayoral campaign. Bluestein has served in strategic roles for non-profits including The National Council for Research on Women and the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, consulting on national outreach, communications, and advocacy strategies.

Andy Szekeres is a nationally touted fundraiser in Progressive circles. Most recently, Andy served as the finance director for the No on 1 Protect Maine Equality Campaign where he raised over 4.9 Million dollars in less than 5 months. His impressive track record includes raising over $26 million dollars in the last three election cycles.

Andy has also served as a Statewide Field Director for both issue and candidate campaigns, giving him a unique perspective and political insight that are rare amongst Political Fundraisers.

His past candidates include No on 1 - Protect Maine Equality, Congressman Polis, Fawcett for Congress, Lamm for Congress, Yes of Referendum I, Vallas for Governor, Skinner for Senate and 23 other races.

Travis Brock has served as the Executive Director of the Nevada State Democratic Party since April, 2007. He has overseen Nevada’s historic early caucuses in 2008, election efforts in 2008, and the unprecedented early organizing effort to prepare for the 2010 elections. Immediately before working in Nevada, Travis served as National Field Director for presidential candidate Tom Vilsack.

In 2005 and 2006, Travis helped lead Democrats to significant victories in Iowa as the Iowa Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign and Political Director. He has also worked on the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry and both successful Iowa gubernatorial campaigns for Tom Vilsack; served as Midwest Political Director at the Democratic National Committee; and worked as an organizer for the AFSCME Florida Political Organizing Campaign. Travis’s work on campaigns and committees has given him the opportunity to work in states in every region of the country.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Travis attended high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin—Madison with a degree in Communication Arts.