President and CEO of Willis–Pendleton LLC, Catherine E. Nugent’s past experience includes legislative and regulatory monitoring and information dissemination to community leaders, business leaders and political operatives on a state level for both Missouri and Kansas. She has coordinated press conferences, opinion piece submission and editorial board visits for multiple trade organizations, industry leaders and community activists, generated letter‐writing campaigns for keynote influential to Congressmen, Senators, and the Executive Branch staffs covering over 900 issues, implemented state lobbying efforts and local issue advocacy, and coordinated fundraising events for multiple statewide and federal candidates and issues.