Key People-Former Speaker Newt Gingrich
Newt 2012  4501 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA  and  3110 Maple Drive, Atlanta, GA 
March 4, 2011 - filed with the IRS to form Newt Exploratory 2012, a 527 political committee (Gingrich announced this testing the waters effort on March 3).
May 11, 2011 - announced his candidacy.
May 2, 2012 - suspended his campaign.

updated May 18, 2012
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Newt 2012 went through a number of interations.  Prior to the campaign, Gingrich was involved in a wide array of activities, and it took longer than expected to disentangle himself from them.  The first interation (version 1.0), built up in the period from March to May 2011, imploded when  senior staff resigned en mass on June 9, 2011.  From June through October 2011 ("duct tape edition" version 2.0) the campaign was a very small, low-budget operation sustained by Gingrich's debate performances.  Version 3.0 saw the campaign at full throttle, as many people were brought on in November, the campaign built out its organizations in the early states, and actively competed in primaries through the end of March 2012.  At that point Newt 2012 campaign entered another phase, version 4.0.  Politico's Mike Allen reported on March 27 reported that Michael Krull stepped down as campaign manager the weekend of March 24-25 and that the campaign would lay off about a third of full time staff.  The campaign continued on for another month-plus; it focused on Delaware's April 24 primary and hoped to use a win in the May 8 North Carolina primary to reshape the race.  After the campaign fell short in Delaware Gingrich suspended his campaign on May 2, 2012.

Pre - Campaign



Prior to the campaign, Gingrich was involved in a wide array of activities, and it took longer than expected to disentangle himself from them.  

Newt's Empire  

Gingrich Productions

Callista Gingrich - President

Gingrich Communications
Kathy G. Lubbers - President and CEO
Joseph DeSantis - Communications Director

Michelle Selesky - Communications Coordinator

Sylvia F. Garcia - Hispanic Outreach Director
Jorge Hurtado - Community Liaison


American Solutions PAC

Joe Gaylord - CEO

Gaylord served as president of Chesapeake Associates, a political consulting firm.  He was on the Board of Directors of GOPAC from 1989-99. He worked at the NRCC for eight years from 1981-89, including six years as executive director.  He worked at the RNC, including in the local elections campaign division, from 1975-81; while at the RNC he developed the Campaign Management College.  Gaylord started at the Republican State Central Committee in Iowa working in positions from field rep. to executive director.

Renewing American Leadership (ReAL)

Rick Tyler - Founding Director


American Solutions for Winning the Future

Senior Leadership Team
Paige Bray - President
Vince Haley - Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Communications
Becky Burkett - Vice President & Chief Development Officer
Chief Operating Officer - Dan Varroney
Management
Fred Asbell - Education Reform Project Director
Tim Cameron - Director of Digital Operations
Steve Everley - Manager of Policy Research
Sarah Few - Director of Development
Christine Hall  - Program Manager
R.C. Hammond - Press Secretary
Lindsey Harvey - Associate Director of Development
Dan Kotman - Director of Online Communications
Michael Krull - National Director 
Benjamin Locher - Systems Analyst
Sukumar Manduva - Web Developer  
Amy Pass - Director of Major Gifts
Whitney Smith - Staff Assistant 
Adam Waldeck - Online Community Manager

The Newt Gingrich Companies
Chairman of the Board - Randy Evans

Center for Health Transformation (project of the Gingrich Group)
Nancy Desmond - CEO
David Merritt - Executive Vice President of Communications and Policy
Melissa Ferguson - Senior Vice President and Director of Member Engagement
Julie Eckstein - Vice President and State Policy Director at CHT
Laura Linn, RN, MN - Vice President & Director of Clinical and Community Networks
Wayne Oliver - Vice President
Stacey Lelko - Vice President of Business Development
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. - Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives
Amy Nyhuls - Senior Director of Meetings & Special Events
Michelle Stein - Communications Director
Vincent Frakes - Federal Policy Director
Sarah Murphy - Member Services Director
Robb Thomas - Finance Director
Leigh Cox - Implementation Director
Stacey Blomberg - State Initiatives Manager
Christie Zimmerman - Program Manager, Meetings & Special Events
Jennifer Cunningham - Executive Assistant to the CEO
Lee Schalk - Staff Assistant

Legal
Stefan C. Passantino - head of the Political Law practice at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP



    The Newt Team
        (source: www.newt.org, Feb. 24, 2011)

Newt Gingrich


Callista Gingrich

President of Gingrich Productions, a performance and production company focusing on audio, video, and photographic production.

Fred Asbell

Education Reform Project Director for American Solutions.

Tim Cameron

Director of Digital Operations for American Solutions.

Brady Cassis

Research Assistant for the Speaker at the American Enterprise Institute.

Jackie Gingrich Cushman

A celebrated speaker and nationally syndicated columnist. JackieCushman.com

Joseph DeSantis

Communications Director for Gingrich Communications, where he oversees all of Speaker Gingrich's online, television, radio and printed word outreach efforts.

Nancy Desmond

CEO of the Center for Health Transformation and of the Gingrich Group, a consulting firm focused on transformation and chaired by former Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Julie Eckstein

Vice President and State Policy Director at CHT, and former Director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

Randy Evans

Chairman of the board of the Newt Gingrich Companies.  He also handles high profile, complex litigation matters throughout the United States for some of the largest companies in the world.

Steve Everley

Manager of Policy Research for American Solutions.

Melissa Ferguson

Senior Vice President and Director of Member Engagement at CHT.

Vincent Frakes

Federal Policy Director at CHT.

Sylvia F. Garcia

Hispanic Outreach Director for Speaker Newt Gingrich and his organization, manages the newt.org/ParaLatinos site, and editor-in-chief of The Americano.

Vince Haley

Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Communications for American Solutions.

Christine Hall

Program Manager for American Solutions.

R.C. Hammond

Press Secretary for American Solutions.

Lindsey Harvey

Associate Director of Development for American Solutions, focusing on fundraising and donor development.

Jorge Hurtado

Community Liaison for Gingrich Communications, where he oversees social media initiatives in support of The Americano.com.

Dan Kotman

Director of Online Communications for American Solutions.

Laura Linn, RN, MN

Vice President & Director of Clinical and Community Networks for CHT

Kathy G. Lubbers

President and CEO of Gingrich Communications where she leads a team responsible for bringing Newt's message to the American people.

David Merritt

Executive Vice President of Communications and Policy at CHT.

Wayne Oliver

Vice President at the Center for Health Transformation, Wayne leads CHT's Health Justice and Right to Know projects as well as e-prescribing efforts.

Stefan Passantino

One of the leading political law attorneys in the nation, representing political figures, corporations and other political entities with respect to state and federal election law, campaign finance, lobbying law and ethics issues.

Michelle Selesky

Communications Coordinator at Gingrich Communications where she orchestrates radio and media opportunities for the Speaker and his co-authors.

Michelle Stein

Communications Director at CHT.

Rick Tyler

Spokesperson for Newt Gingrich and is also the Founding Director of Renewing American Leadership (ReAL).

Dan Varroney

Chief Operating Officer at American Solutions.

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D.

Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Center for Health Transformation and leads the 21st Century FDA Modernization Project.

Adam Waldeck

Director of e-Communications and e-Campaigns for American Solutions.