Andrew (Andy) Blunt is a Missouri political consultant and founder of state-based consulting firm Statehouse Strategies LLC.
 He is the son of Missouri Senator Roy Blunt and the brother of former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt.
 The Missouri Times named Andy Blunt one of the 100+ people to know in Missouri politics for the previous four years, stating, “If this list was the 5+ [people to know], Andy Blunt would still be on it.”
 According to the Missouri Ethics Commission, Blunt had 36 clients as of December 2015.
 Blunt’s extensive client list has been credited by some to his diverse range of experiences and relationships at the Missouri state capital, while others allege that his clients are attracted to the influence he has on his father.
Melissa Hathaway (born November 10, 1968) is a leading expert in cyberspace policy and cybersecurity.
 She served in two U.S. presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama and leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush.
 She is President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC and she is also a Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Regents at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada, and a non-resident Research Fellow at the Kosciuszko Institute in Poland.
Derek Chollet is Executive Vice President for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and author of the book, "The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World " (Public Affairs, 2016).
 He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy, where he coedits "Shadow Government," and is a regular contributor to Defense One, is also an advisor to Beacon Global Strategies and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
 From 2012-2015, Mr. Chollet was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, where he managed U.S. defense policy toward Europe (including NATO), the Middle East, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.
 In that role, he was a senior advisor to two secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta (July 2011 until February 2013) and Chuck Hagel (until February 2015).
William I. Brustein is Vice President for Global Strategies and International Affairs and Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of History at West Virginia University.
 Previously, he was the Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs at The Ohio State University, as well as the Associate Provost for International Affairs and Director of International Programs and Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 Brustein has spent much of his administrative career focused on international education."
 He has published widely in the areas of political extremism and ethnic/religious/racial prejudice.
Michael Joseph Morell (born September 4, 1958) is a former American intelligence analyst.
 He served as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency as well as its acting director twice, first in 2011 and then from 2012 to 2013.
 Since November 2013, he has been a Senior Counselor to Beacon Global Strategies LLC.
 He is a critic of the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 report on the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which many consider to be torture, and is also a proponent of the CIA's targeted killings by drones.
Philippe I. Reines (born November 25, 1969) is an American political consultant.
 He joined the Department of State as a Senior Advisor to Hillary Clinton when she became United States Secretary of State in January 2009, and in 2010 was promoted to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications.
Beacon Global Strategies LLC (BGS) is a Washington, DC-based strategic advisory firm founded by Jeremy Bash, Philippe Reines, and Andrew Shapiro in 2013.
 According to the firm's website, Beacon Global Strategies specializes in matters of international policy, foreign affairs, national defense, cyber, intelligence, and homeland security.
Ryan L. Frazier (born September 8, 1977) is an American public figure, businessman, and a Senior Vice President with the American Hospital Association.
 He was the Managing Director of Frazier Global Strategies and served as senior advisor strategic relations and head of government relations for Air Methods Corporation, a Air Medical and Air Tourism company.
 He is a former at-large member of the Aurora City Council, 2010 Republican candidate for United States House of Representatives Colorado's 7th congressional district and was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016.
 He was first elected as a councilman in 2003 and served two terms.
Jeff Larson is an American political consultant and entrepreneur who served as CEO of the Minneapolis St. Paul 2008 Host Committee, which organized the 2008 Republican National Convention.
 He worked on Reince Priebus's successful campaign to become RNC Chairman and in 2011 became RNC Chief of Staff.
 In March 2013 he became Senior Advisor to Reince Priebus and the Chief of Staff position went to Mike Shields.
Christopher Joseph LaCivita (born 1966) is an American political consultant, and president of the firm Advancing Strategies LLC.
 He was formerly with Crosslink Strategy, a conservative lobbying and political consulting firm founded by former John McCain advisor Terry Nelson.
 LaCivita is often mentioned for his role as media advisor to the Swift Boat Veterans, an independent-expenditure group active in the 2004 presidential election.

Question: Beacon Global Strategies LLC was founded in part by an American political consultant who joined the Department of State as a senior advisor to who?
Answer: Hillary Clinton