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Chip Reno
Chip Reno is a founding member and partner in The Consultants at Jackson, LLC, a Mississippi-based government relations firm serving clients across a broad range of business. Reno serves as a general consultant and governmental strategist for corporate and public clients. A particular focus of Reno’s work is uniting his clients’ business development with government strategies to grow their footprint in Mississippi.
Reno’s political experience includes work on the city, state, and federal level. Reno served on the Jackson City Council representing Ward 6 from 1997-2001, and then went on to manage several statewide political campaigns. He managed Bill Hawks’s campaign for lieutenant governor in 1999, and served as general consultant and campaign manager for current Mississippi Supreme Court Judge Kenny Griffis during Griffis’s successful run for the Mississippi Court of Appeals in 2002. Reno was a strategic consultant for Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour during Barbour’s successful run for governor in 2004, and Reno chaired Barbour’s economic development summit during the governor-elect’s transition. Governor Barbour appointed Reno to the Mississippi Veteran’s Memorial Stadium Commission and to the Mississippi Volunteer Service Commission, which Reno chaired.
Prior to founding The Consultants at Jackson, Reno was a Principal in The Talon Group, a government relations firm serving federal and state government agencies. In that capacity, Reno served on the steering committee that managed State Auditor Phil Bryant’s successful campaign for lieutenant governor during 2007 and Reno managed an independent expenditure campaign for Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney.
Clients Reno has represented as a lobbyist include American Tort Reform Association, US Smokeless Tobacco, Altria, Verizon, Ciber, Tyco Electronics, Citigroup, Standard & Poor’s, Treasure Bay Casino, Entergy, Connections Academy, Tax Credit Capital, DuPont Chemical, Advantage Capital Partners, the Community Mental Health Centers Association, Singing River Community Mental Health Center, the Mississippi Recreational Vehicle Dealers Association, Downtown Jackson Partners, the Cleveland Music Foundation/Mississippi Grammy Museum, Pernod Ricard USA, the Mississippi Psychological Association, Pew Charitable Trust, GEC Engineering, Magnolia Speech School, The National Fire Prevention Association, Amerigroup/Wellpoint, Lamar Advertising, BioTap Laboratory, the Mississippi Coalition of Limited Sureties, Stonehenge Capital, OnMed Telehealth, Premier Prison Supply Services, The Washington Center for Internships, the Mississippi Tourism Association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, HDI software company, Bird Scooters, NDS, LLC, InState Partners, Acivilate, the American Distilled Spirits Alliance, and Mississippi Hotel & Lodging Association.
A Mississippi native, Reno received a bachelor’s degree from Millsaps College, a Master’s in Business Administration from Mississippi State University, and a Master’s in Education Administration from Mississippi College. His political commentary has been published in the Jackson Clarion Ledger, the Biloxi Sun Herald, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes magazine. Reno resides in Jackson, Mississippi.
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