Matt Lien
Founding Partner
Matt is a research-driven political consultant with nearly a decade of experience leading major electoral and public affairs campaigns.
Matt leverages experience winning races up and down the ballot to craft research strategies and precision messaging for political campaigns and non-political clients.
Matt has worked on candidate races and independent expenditure efforts in over a dozen states and DC, serving at all levels from field organizer to campaign manager. As a pollster and a general consultant, his in-depth experience understanding how campaigns run in the real-world ensures that research strategies are developed and deployed effectively to achieve victory.
In recent years, Matt has served as a research-based strategic consultant to many of the nation’s largest trade associations, designing and executing quantitative, qualitative, and advanced analytics methods to advise policy, legislative affairs, political affairs, and public relations in the healthcare, real estate, entertainment, and retail sectors, among others. His guidance has helped these organizations address competitive communications channels by distilling complex legislative issues into messaging that moves voters and policymakers.
Matt received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from American University in Washington DC, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar.