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Spencer Hathaway provides strategic consulting, policy development, and coalition-building services. His thirty years of professional experience in government affairs include six years as Manager of National Legislative Affairs for Syntex Laboratories, preceded by his position as State Government Affairs Regional Director for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and as Manager of State Government Relations for Amfac, Inc., a diversified corporation with operations in 38 states. He has worked in all 50 states developing policy and creating coalitions among consumer groups, national associations and businesses. Mr. Hathaway serves as the Vice Chairman of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) Corporate Round Table. In the past, he has received the Corporate Achievement Award from the NBCSL Corporate Round Table. He served on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Center for Policy Alternatives, and the State Government Affairs Council. In addition, Mr. Hathaway received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Outstanding Private Sector Member from the American Legislative Exchange Council Health Task Force.

Hathaway & Associates was founded in 1995 as a creative coalition building, state/federal government relations, public affairs firm specializing in strategic and tactical advocacy planning and management. Our highly experienced team of government and public affairs professionals offers a full complement of services to help businesses of all sizes, trade associations and non-profit organizations achieve their advocacy objectives with state and federal governments. Hathaway & Associates success is its ability to understand targeted audiences and goals and maneuver within the public policy arena to produce effective and positive outcomes for its clients. Our services and resources are customized to meet each client’s needs and budget. Hathaway & Associates serves established government affairs programs with our ties to national organizations, business and consumer groups as well as specialty constituencies. Also, we assist organizations whose staffs are over extended, organizations just establishing government affairs programs, and organizations without government affairs programs but who need information on legislation and regulations affecting their businesses.

We succeed for our clients by working smart and working hard for them – going beyond the extra mile and expectations; providing high quality, affordable strategies, resources and value – added services that save time and money; understanding targeted audiences and goals; building relationships and networks, and knowing exactly how to maneuver within the legislative and regulatory processes for positive outcomes. We don’t give you a strategy and then walk away, leaving you to move it along. That is not our approach. We implement the strategy for you. And most importantly, what we provide can put you in control of the legislative and regulatory issues affecting your bottom-line – turning them to your advantage.

David Kosar David A. Kosar has a combination of nearly 30 years of experience in state legislative/regulatory lobbying and advocacy, association management, strategic and tactical planning, and communications in the business and nonprofit sectors. Mr. Kosar worked as Director, State Legislative Affairs for the Healthcare Distribution Management Association and its full-service drug distributor members successfully on numerous legislative and regulatory issues having both an individual state and national impact. Issues included the development and implementation of a 50-state licensing and regulatory program for drug distributors, the development of compliance materials used by HDMA’s corporate members to establish their internal compliance programs, and the recent development of new industry standards. He served as an active liaison to the Health Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and as the Private Sector Chair of NCSL’s Assembly on Federal Issues; a member of the Council of State Governments Health Policy Trends Subcommittee, and chaired various committees of the State Government Affairs Council.

We go beyond conventional reporting systems to provide clients with relevant political background and expert analysis.

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