Key People-Former Sen. Rick Santorum
America's Foundation PAC, Downingtown, PA    ...formed Sept. 1995  [website, FEC]

(page updated Jan. 20, 2011)

Chairman  Former Sen. Rick Santorum


Advisor, Political  Matt Beynon

(March 2010)  Beynon has worked as a consultant at Urish Popeck & Co. since June 2008.  Assistant to Sen. Santorum at Eckert Seamans, 2007-08.  Legislative correspondent for Sen. Santorum, Feb. 2004-Jan. 2007.  M.A. in political science from American University, 2005.  B.A. in political science and economics from Gettysburg College, 2003.


Media and Press Management  Virginia Davis

Virginia Davis Partners, LLC of Havertown, PA.  Press secretary on Santorum's 2006 re-election campaign.  Press secretary and earlier deputy press secretary to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), 2002-05.  Deputy press secretary on Rep. John Thune (R-SD)'s 2002 U.S. Senate campaign.  A press assistant to Sen. Santorum, 2000-02.  Graduate of George Mason University.  Pennsylvania native.


Finance Director  Nadine Maenza

Finance director for eastern Pennsylvania on Santorum's 2006 re-election campaign.  Experience also includes finance director for the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee and finance director for U.S. Sen. John Heinz.


Scheduling  Nancy Garver

Scheduler in Santorum's Senate office to Jan. 2007.


The Clapham Group, Burke, VA


Treasurer  Alex Barna

Also served as treasurer on Santorum's 2006 re-election campaign.

IOWA

Iowa Keystone PAC

(announced Oct. 7, 2010)


Advisor  Nicholas T. "Nick" Ryan

(reported by DMR's Tom Beaumont, Aug. 18, 2010) Founder and president of Concordia Group LLC, a Des Moines based consulting firm. >  Served as a top political advisor for Congressman Jim Nussle from 1999-2006, including campaign manager for Nussle's gubernatorial campaign, 2005-06, and his 2004, 2002 and 2000 congressional campaigns.  J.D. from Drake University Law School; B.A. in political science from University of Iowa.


NEW HAMPSHIRE

Chairwoman  Claira Monier

(announced Jan. 19, 2011) Longtime Republican activist.  Executive director of the New Hampshire Housing Authority for 20 years through 2007.  A regional administrator (Region I) for the U.S. Department of HHS during the Reagan Administration. Aide to Gov. Meldrim Thomson.  Graduate of Plymouth Teachers College 1962.  Native of Bedford, NH, now resident of Goffstown.  She is the widow of Senate President Bob Monier.


Director  Mike Biundo

(announced Jan. 5, 2011)  Biundo played key roles in Frank Guinta's successful campaigns for Congress in 2010 and for Mayor of Manchester in 2005 and 2007, as well as on Jim Coburn's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in 2006 and as a consultant to former Gov. Pataki's 21st Century Freedom State PAC.  State representative, Ward 8, Manchester, 2004-06; defeated in re-election bid.  With Jack Heath, he acquired NSP Graphics and co-founded Meridian Communications in 2003 and they ran in the mid-2000s.  President of Atlantic Strategies Group, 1998-2000.  Executive director, Gun Owners of New Hampshire, 1997-98.  New Hampshire deputy campaign manager of Buchanan for President, 1995-96.  Grew up in New York.


Ethics & Public Policy Center
Policy Director  Randall Brandt

(announced Feb. 9, 2010) Senior advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. State Department from 2007-09.  Deputy staff director and counsel for the U.S. Senate Republican Conference in 2005-06.  Counsel for Sen. Santorum, 1999-2005.  Worked for Reps. Phil English and Mark Souder.  J.D. from the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, CA; M.A. in Religion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL, and a B.A. in Political Science from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL.