Gregg Keller
St. Louis
Gregg Keller has been involved in politics since 2001, when he worked for Jim Talent’s successful campaign for the U.S. Senate. During his one-and-a-half years of travel with Senator Talent, Gregg visited all of Missouri’s 114 counties.
Following Senator Talent’s November 2002 election, Gregg worked for Senator Talent as Political Director and Special Assistant until January of 2004, when he was named Coalitions and Communications Director of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Missouri. He spent nine months solidifying the political and communications infrastructure of the campaign in Missouri, then went to New Hampshire in September to serve as the Bush-Cheney Election Day Coordinator, mustering the campaign’s grassroots, 72 hour and legal efforts.
Following the Bush-Cheney campaign, Gregg returned to Sen. Talent’s Missouri Senate office staff as State Director. In that role, Gregg managed Senator Talent’s five Missouri offices and nearly twenty staffers. Under Gregg’s direction, Sen. Talent’s Missouri staff shifted their primary area of focus to constituent outreach, attending more than 4,000 constituent meetings in 2005 alone. Gregg next accepted a position on Sen. Talent’s 2006 re-election campaign as Campaign Manager, where he helped develop and implement all campaign strategies on a campaign Stuart Rothenberg called the best incumbent Senate campaign in the country. The Talent campaign was also an online leader, winning a Golden Dot award for the quality of its website and online initiatives.
Gregg was offered the position of National Coalitions Director on Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in January of 2007. Gregg worked on the Romney for President campaign for just over a year. In that position, Gregg was responsible for putting in place all of the Romney campaign’s outreach and grassroots efforts across 21 coalition groups in 25 states. In addition to this state-specific coalition work, Gregg was also responsible for organizing all of the Romney campaign’s national coalition steering committees, including Governor Romney’s national Faith & Values steering committee, the campaign’s primary outreach mechanism to social conservatives.
In 2008, Gregg founded RGK, LLC., a Missouri-based political consulting firm. He also joined Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon and Associates (www.totalspectrumsga.com), a Washington DC-based consulting firm, as its Vice President.
Prior to his political career, Gregg worked in finance in Boston, Massachusetts, working in fixed income and Latin American equity research departments. Gregg and his wife Lorie have a three-year-old, Bobby, and a baby girl, Eleanor.