Madison Services Group, Inc.

 Ann Sullivan is the President and Founder of Madison Services Group, a woman-owned company that provides government relations and federal business development services. She brings many years of government relations experience in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, serving in key advisory roles. Ms. Sullivan works with the United States Congress and the Administration to garner national attention for the small business community.

Her expertise includes business development programs, government procurement, healthcare, export development, and tax issues affecting small businesses.    

Ann currently leads the policy teams for the largest national association of women business owners and women in business, Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, the HUBZone Contractors National Council, the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO), as well as the national voice for microbusiness, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO). She has also led the formation of the National Migraine Coalition, a women’s health group and a small business advisory council for a Fortune 100 company.    

MSGI specializes in outreach to the small business community with an emphasis on women-owned and minority businesses. Ann is recognized as the driving force behind implementation of the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program and has been a featured keynote speaker and moderator on many procurement panels nationwide.  

Ms. Sullivan is part of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and received the Enterprising Women of the Year Award from Enterprising Women Magazine, and was honored by Professional Women in Advocacy for Excellence in a Federal Issue Campaign. Ann is also the recipient of three prestigious Stevie® Awards for Women in Business, receiving the top honor in the categories of Lifetime Achievement —Business, Woman of the Year— Business Services, and Communications or PR Campaign of the Year—Public Affairs. She was chosen by Small Business Trends as a Top 100 Small Business Influencer, and the Sunlight Foundation named her as one of Washington’s four “perfectly bipartisan lobbyists.”  

Elizabeth Sullivan is a Director of Government Relations at MSGI focusing on federal procurement, women-owned small businesses and education. Her expertise includes government contracting and education. She is vice-chair of the Mistaken Identity Foundation and on the DC Teach for America Alumni Board. Elizabeth is a graduate of James Madison University, and holds a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Prior to Joining Madison Services Group, Elizabeth was a Teach for America corps member in Chicago, IL.   

Jennifer White is Legislative Counsel at MSGI focusing on tax, lending, and healthcare policy, in addition to appropriations and regulatory issues. Jennifer earned her J.D. from Charleston School of Law in Charleston, SC, where she served as a teaching assistant for the Department of Legal Research and Writing, and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee State University. Prior to joining Madison Services Group, Jennifer served as the Government Affairs Manager for the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) and as a Congressional Intern for Congressman Phil Roe (R-TN). She is President of the Charleston Law D.C. Alumni Chapter.

Kristie Arslan has over 15 years of experience working with business associations and nonprofits to develop and implement data-driven strategies to assist them in achieving their organizational goals. As the former Executive Director for Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and President & CEO of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), Kristie has taken the lead on the development and implementation of strategies for membership and sponsorship growth, creation of educational programming for stakeholders, and public policy efforts to increase the awareness of issues facing small business and to impact legislation and regulation. Kristie has spent years providing critical insight to media and policy makers into the issues affecting our nation’s small businesses and women-owned firms. She has been quoted and published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Roll Call, The Hill and CQ Weekly while having appeared on MSNBC, FOX, CNBC and C-SPAN. Kristie also blogs for the Huffington Post.   

  Margaret Barton is a managing and fundraising consultant with over 35 years of extensive experience in public affairs, communications and fundraising in both the private and public sectors, including positions in the White House, four presidential administrations, two national political committees, two Presidential Inaugural Committees and numerous Presidential, federal, state and local political campaigns. 

Ms. Barton is currently providing consulting and communications support for private sector and political clients through her company, Barton Strategies. For five years, Ms. Barton was Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, an independent federal advisory council whose mission is to advise the President, Congress and the Small Business Administration on economic issues of interest to women entrepreneurs.  Ms. Barton has advised U. S. Government agencies, foreign dignitaries and the private sector on the merits and challenges of women’s entrepreneurship.  She has been quoted on this topic in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and other national media outlets.

 Ms. Barton has served on the Board of Directors at the National Constitution Center, is a Sustaining Member of the Campagna Center in Alexandria and is past President of the Sewanee Club of Washington. She was selected as one of the “72 Women Who Are Changing the Face of American Politics” by Campaigns and Elections magazine.