About
ABOUT A10 ASSOCIATES
Our Story
A10 Associates is the Nation’s largest woman-owned bipartisan lobbying firm with nearly 30 years of combined experience on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and across state governments nationwide. A10 Associates is a government relations and strategic communications firm focused exclusively on transportation, infrastructure, and technology industries, and operating federally as well as within 32 individual states.
Our team delivers strategic coverage to clients looking to engage the government at all levels, strengthen their public profile, and enhance their national market share. Prioritizing policy over politics, we strive to repair the country’s infrastructure and bolster economic development.
A10 Associates is a family business, and our mission is to create the ability for our employees and clients, as mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, to be able to succeed in government as well as at home.
We want to see women, minorities, and disadvantaged populations advance in this industry that has traditionally been difficult to penetrate. We treat our employees, clients, and contacts as family and are here to help everyone on our team grow and succeed together.
Our Approach
Our team applies a market-based approach that supplements traditional lobbying practices with market-driven business practices and strategic public relations and communications campaigns. This approach has proven successful in generating profitable public and private partnerships throughout the country.
Our Values
Our commitment to clients and partners is to always be kind, truthful, and give our best to get results for clients.
Our Awards
The A10 Associates Senior Leadership Team
Nationwide
We're Bipartisan
Our clients benefit from insider insight and deep relationships across the aisle both in Washington, D.C. and nationwide. Our experts carefully weigh political, geographic and economic considerations when devising strategies that engage policy makers and find common ground between all political parties.
Our Team
Jessica Beeson Tocco
Chief Executive Officer
Jessica has over a decade of unique experience working with state, federal, and international governments. She is the founder of A10 Associates and created the firm to be bipartisan, focusing on policy instead of politics with a focus on a limited number of industries: transportation, infrastructure, and technology. Jess has a very hands on approach and involves herself in all divisions.
Rachel Fritz
Chief of Staff and Director of Human Resources
Rachel provides high-level administrative support. She establishes and maintains positive working relationships between clients and the company's administrations as well as human resources tasks.
Deanna Deveney, Esq.
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Strategic Communications and Legal
Deanna serves all divisions of A10 Associates, including Strategic Communications and Government Affairs. She is A10’s in-house legal counsel and utilizes her background in local, state, and federal government relations each day to assist clients.
Lindsay Pletch
Executive Vice President of Strategic Communications and Operations
Lindsay directs our strategic communications division and ensures seamless operations. She is dedicated to meeting client needs throughout the execution of their strategic communications strategy.
Christine Callahan
Vice President of Government Affairs
Christine manages client accounts by providing customer service, tracking legislation, assisting with grant applications, and providing government affairs strategy on the local, state, and federal level. She strives to provide our clients with the best service every day to help our clients succeed.
Bridgid Chandler
Associate Vice President of Government Affairs
Bridgid supports the government affairs side of operations by tracking legislation, government funding, and public policy matters for state and local levels. She delivers actionable analysis to aid the firm in providing our clients with the best strategies for government affairs.
Nicole Herendeen
Associate Vice President of Strategic Communications
Nicole supports the strategic communications team, including creating press releases, blogs, newsletters, policy papers, and social media posts. She is passionate about developing creative and compelling public affairs campaigns, helping clients elevate their profile and brand awareness, and enhancing their media engagement.
Haley Weeks
Senior Associate of Government Affairs
Haley manages client accounts and supports our government affairs operations with research and policy content.
Samantha Caracciolo
Policy Research Coordinator
Samantha is a Policy Research Coordinator, where she supports the policy research team, ensuring project alignment and execution across the government relations team. She also manages the Co-Op/Internship program and provides information and grant writing assistance for clients.
Jacqueline Kim
Strategic Communications Manager
Jacqueline supports the strategic communications team in creating content, providing public relations strategy and managing client accounts.
Gabe Espinoza
Strategic Communications Analyst
Gabe supports with Strategic Communications and is responsible for many tasks for clients such as content creation, social media strategy and execution. He ensures our clients' messages reach their target audience effectively and gain recognition within their industry.
Strategic Partners
Tiffany Muehlbauer
Arma Communications Inc.
Tiffany leads Arma Communications, a boutique marketing agency offering website design, website support, onsite SEO, and content creation services for over 20 years. Arma Communications and A10 Associates work together to achieve client online branding and growth goals.
Meghan Speidel
Strategic Partner
