Anthony is a senior designer on FTP’s creative team, where he leads and executes design across the firm’s sectors. He specializes in translating complex ideas into clear, compelling visual solutions that support strategic communications and integrated public affairs campaigns.
In his role, Anthony develops intentional creative for campaigns and coalitions spanning healthcare, transportation and infrastructure, education and workforce, and other emerging public affairs issues. He is passionate about blending refined aesthetics with meaningful impact, ensuring that design not only captures attention but also resonates with diverse audiences and advances clients’ strategic goals.
Prior to joining FTP, Anthony spent seven years working across agency and in‑house environments with a focus on digital media and branding. His experience includes art directing global sustainability campaigns for Microsoft, developing high‑performing social content for Nike Basketball, evolving the visual identity of The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, and creating brand systems for Compass real estate agents in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Peter is a partner and leads FTP’s state advocacy (50-state governor engagement) practice. He has spent his career helping both the public and private sectors navigate the space between capital markets and government at the highest levels. As a former member of the Clinton Administration White House Staff, Peter has applied that knowledge and experience to assist companies in developing strategies that either solve complex problems or increase public sector sales. His clients include publicly-traded and privately-held businesses in the financial services, infrastructure, and technology sectors.
Peter has served on numerous public and private Boards of Directors and worked on more than a dozen political campaigns, beginning his career as a political operative on the Clinton for President campaign in 1992. He previously served as the national treasurer for the Democratic Governors Association from 2014–2018, and remains a key member of their Finance Cabinet. In 2013, he played a leading role in the successful election of his longtime friend, Terry McAuliffe, as the 72nd Governor of Virginia.
Previously, Peter served as the senior advisor to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). His main focus was on developing and advising the national committee on strategic planning, while overseeing a $30 million capital campaign that transformed the national party headquarters and operations. Prior to joining the staff of the DNC, Peter served as the director of major donor development for the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. From 1996 to 1998, he served on the White House staff and spearheaded the administration’s efforts to coordinate with the business community to pass key sections of the Clinton Economic Program.
Peter holds degrees from Marist University and the London School of Economics. He and his wife Sara and their two children reside in Washington, D.C.
Rick Murphy is a partner in FTP’s federal government relations practice and leads the firm’s Republican advocacy. He works at the center of Senate Republican politics, with deep relationships in Republican leadership and across the conferences, committees, and federal agencies where policy is decided. A former Senate chief of staff, he guides Fortune 500 companies, investors, and trade associations across energy and utilities, technology and telecom, transportation and aviation, aerospace and defense, financial services, and consumer goods. Clients rely on Rick for direct access to the Republican leaders and members who decide outcomes in the U.S. Senate.
As chief of staff to Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Rick ran a 40-person operation and directed the senator’s legislative and political agendas in daily coordination with Republican leadership. He is a prolific fundraiser for Republican candidates and the statewide campaigns that decide the majority. In a chamber that still runs on personal relationships, Rick’s run a generation deep.
Rick began his career on Judd Gregg’s (R-NH) 1992 Senate campaign, serving as chief field operative and building a statewide operation county by county before following Gregg to Washington for his first stint in the U.S. Senate. Before returning to the Senate with Senator Ayotte, he spent 15 years running his own federal lobbying firm, R.B. Murphy & Associates, where he represented Fortune 50 companies including Google and Altria, major trade associations, and the nation’s leading scientific organizations. A native of Middlebury, Connecticut, Rick holds a bachelor’s degree from New England College in New Hampshire.
Jocelyn is a senior director in FTP’s public affairs practice. She manages integrated campaigns spanning traditional communications, digital, field, and creative efforts for clients in highly regulated industries. Her expertise spans federal health policy, with a focus on coverage, access, and regulatory strategy.
Prior to joining FTP, Jocelyn served in the healthcare practice at Ketchum, where she supported corporate affairs and health equity efforts for global pharmaceutical accounts. Her work contributed to being recognized with the PR Week “Best Pharma Product Launch” award with Best-in-Class Communications distinction.
Jocelyn began her career doing media relations, where she secured media placements for healthcare, fintech, and tech clients across local, trade, and national outlets. Jocelyn holds a B.S. in Public Relations from the University of Florida.
She leads integrated campaigns across infrastructure, higher education, and healthcare, advising clients on messaging strategy, stakeholder engagement, and communications aligned across paid, earned, and owned channels. Her work has been recognized by Provoke Media and PRNews. She also oversees the firm’s intern program.
Prior to joining FTP full-time, Natanya interned with Blackstone, where she supported a nationwide public affairs campaign tied to the firm’s milestone of one trillion dollars in AUM. She also interned with the Columbus Partnership, where she coordinated advocacy for over $80 million in state and federal appropriations.
Natanya graduated with Honors from The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs with a B.S. in Public Policy Analysis.
Daniel serves as a senior vice president of policy and media strategy on FTP’s public affairs team. He is a trusted media relations and strategic communications advisor with government, public relations, and professional services industry experience. At FTP, Daniel helps clients protect reputations, advance interests, and establish themselves as credible and influential voices on the issues that matter most. He leads coalitions, devises media strategies, and offers incisive internal and external communications counsel. Before joining FTP, he led proactive media relations efforts and helped manage crisis communications for Deloitte’s government and public services practice.
For seven years prior, Daniel served as a senior communications advisor and spokesperson for Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD). In that role, he led media relations, external communications, and social media activities to elevate the Congressman’s profile and spotlight work on democracy reform, healthcare, energy, climate, and other major issues.
Before serving on Capitol Hill, Daniel worked at Powell Tate/Weber Shandwick, supporting earned media and digital advocacy campaigns for corporate, association, and nonprofit clients.
Connor is an associate in FTP’s federal government relations practice. His work spans policy areas including healthcare, trade, manufacturing, energy, AI, quantum computing, and prediction markets. Connor specializes in translating large volumes of legislative, regulatory, political, and stakeholder information into actionable insights. He also works on the firm’s efforts at the cutting edge of how policy intelligence is organized and consumed, developing dashboards, visualizations, and other tools that help teams synthesize critical information flows. Additionally, Connor conducts congressional and executive branch outreach, supports project management across client accounts, and coordinates the development of strategic communication materials.
Prior to joining FTP’s federal government relations practice, Connor interned with the firm’s state advocacy (governor engagement) team. Earlier in his career, he interned in the Colorado State Legislature and on Capitol Hill, worked on three political campaigns, and worked at a Colorado-based lobbying firm.
Trevor is a partner in FTP’s federal government relations practice. He focuses on capital markets and political risk, advising clients whose business models depend on the timing and substance of regulatory and legislative decisions.
Prior to joining FTP in 2020, Trevor was COO and director of research at a boutique investment bank in Washington, D.C. In his dual roles, he was responsible for the overall performance of the policy research, strategic consulting, and investment banking divisions. He led teams that advised institutional and private equity clients and portfolio company leadership on political and investment strategy, with a focus on legislative and regulatory policy issues.
Trevor began his career with eight years as a merger arbitrage trader and political risk specialist at Carlson Capital, focused on regulatory uncertainty related to Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission reviews, CFIUS, and state commission approvals of major transactions. He also spent nearly two years working on U.S. House campaigns in New York City and New Mexico through the Campaign Corps program.
Libby is a partner and head of FTP’s government relations practice. She advises Fortune 500 corporations, investors, and major trade associations on their most consequential fights in Washington, from high-stakes legislation and regulatory threats to congressional investigations, reputational crises, and the political risk that can reshape an industry overnight. She holds longstanding, trusted relationships across House Democratic leadership, the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees, and the committees and members who drive critical outcomes across the American economy. A former House chief of staff who came up with winning campaigns in Alabama and red-leaning districts across the country, she has built her career on a conviction that real wins are achieved through bipartisan strategy designed around a durable coalition of support.
One of Washington’s leading healthcare and life sciences advocates, Libby was a key strategist on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry throughout the Affordable Care Act negotiations. In the years since, she has worked on every major piece of healthcare legislation and the defining fights over drug pricing, PBMs, the 340B program, physician reimbursement, and FDA reform. She fights to get new therapies into the hands of the patients who need them, to protect the reimbursement frameworks that put new cures within reach, and to keep American biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovation ahead of global competition. Her work extends across medical devices and diagnostics, most recently working to pass the 2026 law extending Medicare coverage to multi-cancer early detection, bringing a new generation of cancer screening to millions of Americans and changing the odds in the fight against cancer.
Across healthcare and the broader economy, Libby is sought out for the highest-stakes corporate battles, steering companies and industries through congressional investigations, reputational crises, and the political risk around mergers and acquisitions. Libby advises clients on the policy and politics that will define their industries, from food and agriculture to retail and trade, technology, AI, and the live events economy.
On Capitol Hill, Libby served as chief of staff to Representative Allen Boyd (D-FL) for nearly a decade, helping lead the Blue Dog Coalition to the height of its influence, growing its political operation tenfold, and recruiting and mentoring the moderate candidates who delivered the Democratic House majority in 2006. She helped write the Blue Dogs’ pay-as-you-go budget rules, enacted into federal law and still in force today, that require Congress to pay for what it spends, a cornerstone of the coalition’s fiscal legacy. Today she sits at the heart of the centrist coalition that decides close votes, the moderate members who hold the balance in a narrowly divided House. That work extends through Center Forward, the bipartisan organization she co-founded in 2010, now one of Washington’s leading conveners of cross-party dialogue. Libby’s political career began in Alabama, where she rose through state campaigns and Democratic politics before joining a national fundraising practice in Washington. She went on to serve as Representative Allen Boyd’s chief of staff for nearly a decade before joining Jeff Forbes in 2009 at the firm that would become Forbes Tate Partners (now FTP). A native of Birmingham, she holds a B.A.in English from Birmingham-Southern College, where she graduated with Distinction in Leadership Studies.
Jeff Forbes is the founding partner and chairman of FTP. A 20-year veteran of political campaigns at every level, Jeff began his involvement in politics more than 25 years ago on then-Senator Al Gore’s 1988 Presidential bid. Since that time, he has worked with and coordinated numerous campaigns, ranging from municipal candidates to the U.S. Congress, as well as the White House.
Prior to founding Forbes Tate Partners (FTP), Jeff was a founding partner at Forbes Tate’s predecessor, Cauthen Forbes & Williams. He served as the Democratic staff director for the US Senate Committee on Finance in 2003. Before assuming this role at the Committee, he served as chief of staff to former Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) from 1999-2002. Beyond his knowledge of the intricacies of tax and trade, Jeff is a veteran strategist for the Democratic National Committee. From 1993-1995 he served as Midwest political director. Jeff later served the national committee as chief of strategy in 1999.
A stalwart of the Clinton-Gore administration, Jeff was the New Hampshire field director for then-Governor Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign. In President Clinton’s 1996 re-election bid, he was deputy political director and director of delegate selection. Following the campaign, Jeff went on to serve as a special assistant to the President and staff director for legislative affairs in 1997. From 1998-99, he served as the deputy assistant to President Clinton and was the deputy director of scheduling at the White House. He also served as senior advisor to the Obama for President Campaign in New Hampshire in the 2008 presidential election. Jeff was a member of the Democratic National Committee’s special Democratic Change Commission to improve the presidential delegate selection process and has been a member of the DNC since 2009.
Jeff was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Northfield, Minnesota. He earned a B.A. in Political Science with an Economics minor from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1987. Jeff and his wife live in Chevy Chase, Maryland with their three sons.
