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Sullivan hires lobbyist for financial executives

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on April 28, 2015

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has hired a former Hill staffer who has been lobbying for the financial industry for more than five years.

Tyler Roberts was manager of government affairs for Financial Executives International and has now joined Sullivan's office as legislative assistant, his first Senate job.

Roberts started in Congress in 2005 with an internship for Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) and joined his staff, later leaving to work as a research assistant for the National Republican Congressional Committee between 2007 and 2009. He returned to the Hill in then-Rep. Roy Blunt's (R-Mo.) office briefly in 2009.

During his lobbying years, Roberts registered to advocate on issues including financial reporting, economic recovery and the Affordable Care Act. He has a bachelor's degree from Lake Forest College and a master's in government public policy from Johns Hopkins University's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Roberts is the first revolving door lobbyist to pass between Sullivan's office and K Street.