Statt Launches Advisory Board of Government Relations, Public Affairs, and Technology Leaders to Shape the Future of AI-Powered Public Policy Work

Inaugural members include former policymakers and White House advisors, senior leaders from top technology companies, heads of prominent government relations firms, and media executives.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Statt, Inc. (“Statt”), the first AI-native, end-to-end workflow platform built for government relations, public affairs, and regulatory teams, today announced the formal launch of Statt’s outside advisory board. The board brings together a high-level group of government relations practitioners, technology executives, and public affairs leaders to support Statt's rapid growth as the leading AI platform for public policy.

The advisory board reflects the breadth of the market Statt now serves — multi-client government relations and public affairs firms, Fortune 500 in-house teams, trade associations, and government bodies — and the seriousness of the company's ambition to become the operating system for public policy teams globally.

“Public policy is one of the last knowledge industries without a true technology infrastructure designed for their unique work -- legacy tools simply do not free up capacity for policy professionals to do the relationship building and gather the human intelligence that matters most. We built Statt AI-native and end-to-end, powered by a unique data stream of hundreds of millions of real-time inputs, and fully customizable for different teams. The leaders joining our advisory board are leaders in this industry – they’ve run governments, companies, and public affairs teams at the highest levels, and I’m excited that they are going to sharpen our product roadmap, as we continue to develop the platform that this industry deserves.”
— Steve Glickman, Co-Founder and CEO, Statt

The inaugural members of the Statt Advisory Board are:

• Martin O'Malley, former Governor of Maryland, former Mayor of Baltimore, and former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
• Francois Chadwick, Chief Financial Officer at Cohere and former Vice President of Finance, Tax, and Accounting at Uber
• Courtney Geduldig, Founder, Managing Partner at Vantage Road Partners
• Izzy Klein, co-founder of Klein Johnson Group and former Communications Director to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer
• Mathew Lapinski, CEO of Crossroads Strategies.
• Daniel Marti, Head of Public Affairs and Global Policy at Tencent
• Matt McDonald, Board Member and former CEO at Penta Group
• Meredith McPhillips, Vice President, Membership & Marketing at Business Roundtable
• Kristan King Nevins, Senior Managing Director at Blackstone
• Colm O'Comartun, co-founder of 50 State and GP3, and former Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association
• Tom Prewitt, Managing Director of Strategic Analysis at Stand Together
• Peter Cherukuri, Media Executive & Startup Founder
• Steve Clemons, Chairman & CEO at Widehall.
• Cam Sadler, Managing Director at FGS Global
• Ja’Ron Smith, CGCN Senior Partner and former Deputy Assistant to President Trump

The Advisory Board will meet quarterly with Statt's leadership team and provide guidance on product direction, go-to-market strategy, brand building, and customer and partner introductions across all four of Statt's core market segments: government relations and lobbying firms, corporate in-house policy and regulatory teams, public affairs and strategic communications firms, and trade associations and public sector organizations. The board will also advise Statt’s custom-engineering leadership – the group that tailors agentic deployments for each customer – on the use cases and integrations that will help most accelerate our customers’ work, freeing up their valuable time and resources for the strategic work that matters most.

Statt’s Recent Momentum

Statt has been named one of the 2025 Top 25 Startups to Watch and Glickman has been selected as Best Startup CEO. In February, a national news outlet profiled Statt's AI-generated predictive draft of President Trump's 2026 State of the Union address, a nearly 7,500-word transcript built entirely on Statt's proprietary legislative, regulatory, and policy intelligence. In April, Statt published the 2026 Statt Midterm Playbook, a monthly intelligence report on congressional vulnerability, legislative strategy, and the policy outlook through November. In May, Statt released sector-specific editions of its Democratic Oversight Map, the first covering financial services and the second covering energy.

About Statt

Statt is the first AI-native, end-to-end workflow software built for public policy, government, public affairs, and regulatory teams. Statt’s platform automates the repetitive underpinnings of policy work — monitoring, research, drafting, and delivery — so professionals can spend less time at their desks and more time on developing the relationships, strategy, and human intelligence that add the most value. Statt is both a platform and a partner: a dedicated custom-engineering team integrates Statt’s analytics and AI tools into customers’ existing systems and workflows, meeting policy teams where they already work. Statt covers more than 20,000 audited sources and hundreds of millions of indexed datapoints across Washington, DC; all 50 U.S. states; the European Union; and more than 140 global markets. The company is backed by Moneta Ventures, Clutch VC, Next Coast Ventures, and NextGen Venture Partners. Learn more at statt.com.