Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he co-directs an Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. He is also a strategic partner with Cottonwood Venture Partners (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and is author of Digital Cathedrals (2020) and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). He is also coauthor of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (2005).

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Marc Goldwein Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director

Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, where he guides and conducts research on a wide array of topics related to fiscal policy and the federal budget. He is frequently quoted in a number of major media outlets and works regularly with Members of Congress and their staffs on budget-related issues.

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David A. Ditch, a budget and transportation associate at the Heritage Foundation, focuses on federal spending and fiscal policy. He is a research associate in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. He has appeared on local radio stations across the country, and his work also been featured on Fox Business.com, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many other publications.

Prior to joining Heritage, David was a Budget Analyst for the Senate Budget Committee where he oversaw appropriations and agriculture. He has also worked for the Senate Small Business Committee, Rep. Todd Young, Rep. Mark Sanford, and Rep. Raul Labrador.

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Starting as an intern in 1987, David Almasi previously served as executive director and director of media for the National Center for Public Policy Research before becoming the organization’ vice president in 2017.

A veteran of the Washington, D.C. non-profit industry, David has served in media and communications roles for Defenders of Property Rights, Putting People First and Accuracy in Academia. He was also a communications and marketing strategist for URAC – a health care accreditation group.

David’s commentaries have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Orlando Sentinel. He has been a guest on the Fox News Channel and One America News.

as an intern in 1987, David Almasi previously served as executive director and director of media for the National Center for Public Policy Research before becoming the organization’ vice president in 2017.

A veteran of the Washington, D.C. non-profit industry, David has served in media and communications roles for Defenders of Property Rights, Putting People First and Accuracy in Academia. He was also a communications and marketing strategist for URAC – a health care accreditation group.

David’s commentaries have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Orlando Sentinel. He has been a guest on the Fox News Channel and One America News.

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Marc Morano ] is a former Republican political aide who founded and runs the website ClimateDepot.com. ClimateDepot is a project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a Washington, D.C. non-profit that promotes climate change denial

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Anthony B. Kim is research manager and editor of the Index of Economic Freedom. Previously, Kim had served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, founder of the Heritage Foundation.
 

Focusing on policies related to economic freedom, entrepreneurship, and investment in various countries around the world, Kim researches international economic issues. As an editor, Kim also manages the production of The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. The Index, a widely respected policy guide book, tracks the march of economic freedom around the world by measuring 12 freedoms – from property rights to entrepreneurship – in 186 countries.
 

After a decade of publication, Heritage executives in 2007 decided changes were needed to make the Index more accessible to more readers -- from policymakers to investors around the globe. As a leading Heritage expert who grade the listed countries, Kim helped oversee and implement those changes.

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Bill Bullard joined R-CALF USA as the organization’s first Chief Executive Officer at national headquarters in Billings, Mont., on April 9, 2001.

Bullard has testified on behalf of R-CALF USA members before Congress and executive branch agencies, has managed numerous lawsuits on behalf of the organization, and is the organization’s registered lobbyist.

Bullard, formerly a cow/calf rancher in Perkins County, S.D., served as the Executive Director of the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission from 1995-2001. He has a B.S. in Political Science from Black Hills State University and completed a year of graduate studies at the University of South Dakota.

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Alfredo Ortiz is the president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, where he has led the defense of small businesses from the onslaught of bad government policies. Alfredo has testified before legislative committees about the impact of taxation and regulation on small business growth, and speaks frequently to business organizations across the nation about the need for job creators to seize responsibility for defending free enterprise.

He has been widely published in major media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNBC, The Hill, and U.S. News & World Report and is a frequent guest on cable news networks and national radio talk shows, including CNN, Fox News, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, and the Dennis Prager Show. He is an advisory board member for Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute.

Ortiz was instrumental in helping pass the historic tax cuts bill of 2017. Working with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, Ortiz focused and directed JCN’s grassroots and business community to support Congressional leadership and include small business owners in the tax cut bill. JCN sent more than 550,000 emails to Congress and ran a multi-million dollar media campaign to support the bill.

Prior to joining JCN, Alfredo was marketing and corporate strategy consultant, working for a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Alfredo received his MBA at the University of Michigan and graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor’s degree in Economics.

Born to immigrant parents in Southern California, Alfredo saw first-hand the importance of job creation and economic opportunity, as his parents fought for their piece of the American Dream.  Now he is grateful for the opportunity to lead an organization that can serve as advocates for the nearly 30 million small business owners in this country that are also fighting for their American Dream, and the nearly 60 million employees that are dependent on the success of these small business owners

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Elaine Parker is the President of the Job Creators Network Foundation and Chief Communications Officer of the Job Creators Network. In her role, she executes the foundation’s principle aims of public policy education and strategic media outreach. Elaine speaks frequently to business organizations and small business owners to identify solutions to the issues they face and develop strategies to address them. Elaine is a frequent guest on nationally syndicated radio shows and television networks–including Fox News. Her op-eds also regularly appear in major print publications–including the Washington Examiner, Real Clear Policy, Orange County Register, The Hill and other national newspapers.

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Brent Sadler joined Heritage Foundation after a 26 year Navy career with numerous operational tours on nuclear powered submarines, personal staffs of senior Defense Department leaders, and as a military diplomat in Asia. As a senior research fellow, Brent’s focus is on maritime security and the technologies shaping our future maritime forces, especially the Navy.

Brent is a native of Springfield, Virginia, and a 1994 graduate with honors of the United States Naval Academy with a degree in Systems Engineering (robotics) and a minor in Japanese. As a 2004 Olmsted Scholar in Tokyo, Japan, he studied at Keio University, Jochi University and the United Nations University. He has a M.A. from Jochi University and M.S. from National War College where he graduated with distinction in 2011 receiving several writing and research awards.

In 2011, he established the Navy Asia Pacific Advisory Group (NAPAG), providing regionally informed advice directly to Chief of Naval Operations’ (CNO). He again served on the CNO’s personal staff in 2015-2016, playing a key role in developing the Defense Department’s Third Offset.  

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