Craig Brightup

Craig Brightup, National Lobbyist for Cotney Attorneys & Consultants, is CEO of The Brightup Group LLC, a government relations consulting firm in Washington, DC.  He’s worked with over 20 organizations since 2009, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is also a founding member of E Street Partners, a bipartisan consortium providing public policy services to corporations, associations and  coalitions.  Previously, he was Vice President of Government Relations for the National Roofing Contractors Association, opening its Capitol Hill office in 1990, and before that headed congressional relations for the Federal Trade Commission by appointment of President Ronald Reagan. In 2000 he was named to Fortune Small Business magazine’s POWER 30 list of “influential insiders” in our Nation’s Capital, and was recently elected President of the Washington Industrial Roundtable.