CHARIOT CAMPAIGNS - Key Persons
Abigail Whited is the ultimate hustler and jack-of-all-trades. Her eclectic professional background ranges from repairing and modifying vintage video game consoles to owning and operating Sap Syrup, a former bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup company. As fun and tasty as all of that was, Abigail's true passion is graphic design. She has designed everything from trade show booths and dairy farm calendars to book jackets and video arcade logos. She is also a skilled creative professional working several cycles with award-winning political marketing teams across the country. She now lives in the midwest with her husband and cat.
Ash's long and successful career has led him to serve as the chief strategist for campaigns in fifteen states, and Puerto Rico. Wright is a frequent contributor on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, and MSNBC. A nationally-recognized strategist, he has been nominated for four Reed Awards and was named to the 2019 40 under 40 class by the National Association of Political Consultants.
Job Titles:
- Vice President and Data Director at C3 Public Strategies
Bryan McPartlan has a decade of experience in grassroots advocacy and coalition building for political campaigns, corporate clientele, and non-profit organizations. With an emphasis in data and technology, Bryan has helped hundreds of clients successfully reach their audience at every level of government.
Bryan currently serves as the Vice President and Data Director at C3 Public Strategies. In this position, Bryan oversees all operations for the firm that has hired thousands of employees and made over 10 million voter contacts in the past three years across the country. Bryan brings to C3 more than just the ability to manage large scale operations, but provides insights into targeting and messaging that make C3 able to integrate targeted field solutions and data consulting into the book of services.
Prior to working for C3 Public Strategies, Bryan worked on the ground in many campaigns at the local, state and federal levels, including serving as the Campaign Manager for Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham in 2016. Despite being outspent two to one, Bryan took one of California's top-targeted Assembly campaigns and helped push Jordan Cunningham into a 10-point victory.
After a few campaigns in Bryan's early career, he served as the Statewide Data Director of the California Republican Party. In this role, Bryan introduced the party to mobile walk apps and worked to train campaigns and activists across the state in emerging technologies. Additionally, Bryan standardized all data procedures for Republican campaigns across California ensuring that good data was collected and usable from one election to another. Bryan created the targeting for all the party's targeted campaigns helping Republicans to pick up six seats in the state legislature defeating three Democrat incumbents in the State Assembly. Bryan also ran statewide coalition efforts to elect Andy Vidak to the State Senate, eliminating the Democrat supermajority, and elect Kevin Faulconer as Mayor of San Diego, making it the largest city in America with a Republican mayor.
Bryan graduated from the University of California, Davis and resides in West Sacramento with his wife Ashley, and their two children Olivia and Lawrence.
Job Titles:
- Senior Account Supervisor
Cristina brings over 10 years of experience in political campaign consulting to the Chariot team. She provides strategic consulting services to local, state and federal candidates. Her areas of expertise include client management, PAC fundraising, political mail coordination, and media relations. She has previously served as a Finance Project Manager, Onsite Campaign Manager, Grassroots/Coalitions Manager and PAC Fundraiser for numerous legislative clients.
Duc has over a decade of experience in political consulting, campaigns, state government, law, and finance. His campaign cowboy life has taken him coast to coast working city council to US Senate races. As the National Political Director of Vanguard Field Strategies, he oversaw more than 50 campaigns in 20 states. During his tenure, Vanguard was honored as the nation's best paid field program and received a Reed Award for Best Use of Paid Field Program. He has also previously served as Congressional Campaign Manager.
Gregg has a career creating campaign materials and graphics that spans 20 years and multiple awards. His abilities include creative input and production, internet and print production technology as well as graphics software and related system expertise.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- President
- Chariot 's CEO and Founder
Chariot's CEO and founder James Fisfis has over two decades' experience in U.S. and international political campaigns, including 22 years in California. He is the recipient of six AAPC "Pollie" Awards and three Reed Award nominations for his successful and innovative ad campaigns, including the Silver "Pollie" Award for best Candidate Media Campaign of the 2014 election cycle.
In addition to his award-winning media consulting, James has conducted and directed over 500 political and public affairs surveys and focus groups - in the United States and in over 20 countries on four continents - for Fortune 500 companies and business and technology organizations.
Kristen coordinates messaging and analyzes qualitative research projects for corporate and political clients. She began her bipartisan political career in research and communications in the California State Assembly. She has worked in political consultancy for numerous Bay Area campaigns and published three articles in the Women in the World series in association with the New York Times.
Job Titles:
- Expert
- VICE PRESIDENT, C3 PUBLIC STRATEGIES
Lane Koch is an expert grassroots strategist, a sought-after writer, speaker, and political commentator.
In the summer of 2020, Lane founded Grassroots Girl, a consulting brand specializing in providing customized voter-contact platforms for candidates, ballot initiatives and more. With over 13 years of experience as a Republican field director and grassroots organizer, Lane provides management and senior-level strategy to help campaigns create and mobilize successful grassroots and field operations that result in winning campaigns. Not wanting to only help clients behind the scenes, Lane leveraged the power of social media by sharing daily tips on campaigning best practices and career advice for politicos and new candidates, drawing upon her classical political science training and real-world experience. In doing so, Grassroots Girl became a recognized and respected brand.
Lane previously served as the Senior Vice President of EXPolitix and the National Director of Program and Business Development at Vanguard Field Strategies, where she drew on her experience and vast relationships to build effective grassroots teams to help clients succeed.
In the 2018 election cycle alone, she helped manage the grassroots operations for more than 50 campaigns in 20 states. Lane's achievements in the field together with the entire Vanguard team were honored as the nation's No. 1 paid field program. Vanguard received the "2020 Reed Award for Best Use of Paid Field Program."
As someone who has toiled in the field for campaigns of all sizes, Lane knows firsthand what it takes to mobilize large groups of volunteers with a too-often small staff in which the hours can be long and unforgiving.
Lane understands the importance of expanding the universe of grassroots beyond the party faithful and individual stakeholders. She specializes in helping campaigns identify, recruit and mobilize volunteers who are new to the world of politics and campaigns.
Lane spent over a decade working for Republican elected officials and candidates at the national and state level where she has held nearly every title and leadership position in grassroots field operations.
Lane's national political experiences includes her work with the National Republican Committee's victory grassroots efforts in Missouri to get out the vote for the McCain- Palin ticket in 2008 and the Romney-Ryan ticket in 2012. Both presidential campaigns were successful in Missouri and she was part of the leadership team for the only state team in the country that delivered a battleground state for McCain-Palin.
Lane served as Deputy Political Director for Missouri Senator Roy Blunt's successful U.S. Senate campaign in 2010 and later served as Small Business Liaison for the senator, building relationships with job creators and ensuring their concerns were heard by their elected leaders. She has also planned, managed and executed grassroots operations for initiative petition campaigns as Political Director for the issue-advocacy division of Pelopidas. Lane got her start as a field representative for Missouri Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond helping constituents navigate the federal bureaucracy.
Lane graduated from Taylor University with a degree in Political Science and is currently studying to receive her Masters in Campaign Management from George Washington University.
Due to her passion in fostering young professional, female, and minority engagement in the Republican Party, Lane dedicates time volunteering her skills and talents as the Missouri National Committeewoman for the Young Republican National Federation, an auxiliary of the Republican National Committee and as Vice President of the St. Louis Young Republicans.
Richard provides strategic consulting services to local, state, and federal campaigns. His expertise includes content creation and design, strategic messaging, field operations administration, media relations and social media management. He has previously served as a Campaign Manager, Communications Director, and Field Director on various U.S. Senate and U.S. House races.