Senior Vice President

With extensive experience in both the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. government, Jonathan Blum was most recently Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Treasury Department’s chief liaison to Congress.  In that role, he served on Treasury’s leadership team, advising the Secretary and senior officials on complex legislative and policy strategies spanning domestic finance, international affairs, sanctions, tax, and appropriations.  For his service, Mr. Blum was presented with the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Secretary.

With deep knowledge of Treasury’s inner workings and its unique role in the regulatory and rulemaking process, Mr. Blum has been at the intersection of politics and policy for more than a decade. Previously Vice President of Congressional Relations at the American Bankers Association, and a Public Policy Advisor at WilmerHale, Mr. Blum also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs (Banking and Finance) at Treasury during President Trump’s first term, and spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill as lead advisor for the House Financial Services Committee Financial Institutions Subcommittee under then-Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and as staff to U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), former U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-Nev.), and former Ranking Member Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) on the Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee.

Mr. Blum holds an MPA from the University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs and a BA from Washington College.