Gentry Collins is Chief Executive Officer of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a national advocacy and trade association working to expand equal economic opportunity for all Americans, and advocating public policies that provide small and medium sized businesses equal access to the marketplace.
Collins is also a partner at CAP Public Affairs, where he has worked successfully with large-scale advocacy and brand management efforts across multiple sectors of the American economy.
Collins served as a Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center for the Political Future, where he lectured on the Future of the Republican Party. He is a co-founder of NewRepublican.org, built to reshape the way Republican campaigns and party committees understand brand management.
During the 2010 election cycle, Collins served as the National Political Director at the Republican National Committee, playing a major role in returning a Republican majority to Congress.
During the 2006 cycle, Collins served as National Political Director for the Republican Governors Association, engaging in gubernatorial races and independent expenditure efforts in 36 states.
During the 2004 cycle, he served as Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa. While there he helped carry Iowa for Bush-Cheney, one of just two states that switched from Gore in 2000 to Bush in 2004. It was also the first time a Republican won Iowa since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-elect.
Collins was named Politico’s ‘Top Presidential Staffer Get’ for 2012, and The New York Post has called him “ … one of the most highly regarded operatives in the party.”