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EXHIBIT C

PROFESSIONAL BIOS

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Adam W. Goldberg

Co-Founder & Partner

Trident DMG

Adam W. Goldberg is one of the nation’s leading advisors helping 

companies and individuals address their reputational and political needs. In 

addition to co-founding Trident DMG, he is co-founder of the law 

firm Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC.

Previously, he founded Trident Law Group and led the Public Strategies and 

Crisis Management Practice at a major global law firm. He has been an 

advisor, advocate, and strategist for corporations, individuals, state and local 

governments, non-profits, and Indian tribes on matters spanning industries 

and geography. These matters encompass the financial, entertainment, 

cybersecurity, internet and technology, education, hedge fund, private 

equity, pharmaceutical, personal genetics testing, hospitality, retail, 

transportation, automotive, and telecommunications sectors.

Adam served in the White House as Special Associate Counsel to President Clinton from 1996 to 

1999, providing advice on political and communications strategies for the campaign finance, 

Monica Lewinsky, technology transfer, and other investigations. Serving as a White House 

spokesman, Adam worked on congressional, Department of Justice, and independent counsel 

inquiries. Before the White House, he began his career advising clients on public policy at a 

prominent Washington, D.C. law firm and then served as the Director of Rapid Response for 

Special Projects for the Democratic National Committee during the 1996 presidential campaign.

Adam’s counsel and advocacy focus on the following: litigation communications, regulatory, 

congressional, and other government investigations; bankrtupcy proceedings; media investigations, 

communications strategies, and interest from grass-roots groups; public policy issues, government 

relations, and public affairs campaigns; and general corporate and litigation advice.

Representative clients include the following:

• Major movie studios on the positioning of a feature film and its accompanying media and

advocacy-group scrutiny;

• A major music industry figure on high-profile litigation issues;

• A Big Four accounting firm on a variety of high-profile litigation issues;

• One of the leading, multinational pharmaceutical companies facing federal and state, multidistrict product liability litigation;

• One of the nation’s leading universities under government, media, and NCAA

investigations;

• Private equity firms on high-profile litigation issues;

• A multinational mining company on regulatory and civil litigation;

• Emerging and established technology and other companies on privacy, data-breach,

intellectual property disputes, and other high-profile matters;

• A leading personal genetic-testing company on public policy issues and congressional and

GAO investigations into the industry;

• A major Indian tribe in multi-venue litigation on sovereign immunity and citizenship issues

and on related media and congressional scrutiny;

• Corporate officers, corporate in-house counsel, and elected officials regarding high-profile

government and congressional ethics investigations;

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• An international investor in litigation with a foreign sovereign over an investment and

associated media scrutiny;

• A figure in connection with the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil

For Food Program before investigating U.S. House and Senate committees; and

• A sports association in connection with litigation, a congressional inquiry, and media

scrutiny.

Adam has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he co-taught 

classes on crisis management and communications. He also lectures on related topics frequently to 

a variety of business and legal audiences. He has authored published articles on congressional 

investigations and crisis management, and is a commentator on national television and in major 

print and online publications.

In addition to his practice and teaching, Adam serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Area 

Food Bank, the Washington, D.C. metro area’s largest, non-profit hunger and nutrition education 

resource. In its last fiscal year, the Food Bank sourced and distributed more than 45 million pounds 

of food to the food insecure through local partner agencies.

Admitted in New York, the District of Columbia, and various federal courts, Adam graduated 

Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1994 and Tufts University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta 

Kappa, in 1991.

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Lanny J. Davis

Co-Founder & Partner

Trident DMG

Lanny Davis is co-founder and partner of Trident DMG, and co-founder and 

partner of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC.

Lanny is a lawyer, crisis manager, consultant, author, and television 

commentator providing strategic counsel to clients under scrutiny on crisis 

management and legal issues by combining legal, media and political 

strategies. He develops and manages communications programs around 

litigation and crises to protect brand reputations. He is often called to serve 

as on camera spokesperson on behalf of an individual or corporation.

Lanny represents individuals, countries, and companies in high stakes global crises, litigation, 

government investigations and crisis management. He has conceived, created and led media 

strategies for clients that have included CEOs, sports celebrities, political leaders, world leaders, 

and both U.S. and international companies. He has handled the cases of public figures from Martha 

Stewart to Dan Snyder, companies from Whole Foods to Starbucks, and political figures from 

President Bill Clinton to Representative Charlie Rangel.

Although a Democrat, Lanny has friends on both sides of the aisle. During the Clinton 

administration, Lanny served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton and was a spokesperson 

for the president and the White House on matters concerning campaign finance investigations and 

other legal issues. In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed Lanny to serve on the five-member 

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 

Intelligence Reform Act.

For 25 years prior to 1996, before his tenure as special counsel to President Clinton, Lanny was a 

commercial, antitrust, government contracts, and False Claims Act litigator (representing both 

defendants and plaintiffs). He has also argued numerous appellate cases and has experience in 

securities fraud and SEC investigations, and congressional, state attorney general and regulatory 

investigations. Throughout his career, he has found that using integrated legal, media and lobbying 

approaches can frequently lead to quicker and less expensive settlements or even successfully 

litigated outcomes. Senior officials of public companies have also hired Lanny and his colleagues 

to defend themselves successfully against “short and distort” attacks and other market 

manipulations.

Lanny has participated in national, state and local politics for almost 30 years. He has served three 

terms (1980 to 1992) on the Democratic National Committee representing the state of Maryland, 

and during that period he served on the DNC Executive Committee and as chairman of the Eastern 

Region Caucus. In Montgomery County, Maryland, he served as chairman of the Washington 

Suburban Transit Commission.

Lanny has lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe on various political issues and has authored 

several books, including: Scandal: How “Gotcha” Politics Is Destroying America; Truth To Tell: 

Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education; and Crisis Tales 

– Five Rules for Handling Scandal in Business, Politics and Life. His latest book is The Unmaking

of the President 2016: How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency,

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published by Simon & Schuster/Scribner in 2018.

Lanny graduated from Yale Law School, where he won the prestigious Thurman Arnold Moot 

Court prize and served on the Yale Law Journal. A graduate of Yale College, he served as chairman 

of the Yale Daily News. Lanny is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Connecticut 

and before the Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District 

of Columbia Circuit.

He has been a regular television commentator and political and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN, 

CNBC, Fox, and network TV news programs and has published numerous opinion and analysis 

pieces in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and other national 

publications. His “Purple Nation” column appears regularly in The Hill, The Huffington Post, 

FoxNews.com, The Daily Caller, and Newsmax. He can be followed on Twitter @LannyDavis.

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Eleanor S. McManus

Co-Founder & Partner

Trident DMG

Eleanor McManus is co-founder and partner of the public relations firm 

Trident DMG, and co-founder and partner of the law firm Davis Goldberg & 

Galper PLLC.

Eleanor is a former award-winning journalist and was named to Business 

Insider’s 2017 list of “Best Public-Relations People in the Tech Industry”. 

Recently she was named to the 2019 Lawdragon’s Global 100 Leading 

Consultants and Strategists. 

She provides clients with strategic counsel for internal and external 

communications, crisis management, media relations, branding, reputation 

management, issue mitigation, and litigation communications.

Eleanor works with emerging and high-growth tech companies, investors and entrepreneurs to 

develop their brand from executive positioning and thought leadership to market positioning, 

product launches, financing rounds, and public affairs campaigns. Eleanor also works in 

coordination with top litigators and attorneys, developing communications strategies to navigate 

litigation and legal issues. She also works with companies and individuals that need to develop 

communications strategies for private-sector and government litigation and regulatory settlements 

that impact reputation. 

She has counseled a variety of clients from startups to unicorns, private equity firms, national 

restaurant chains, national hotel chains, health and biotech companies, professional athletes and 

celebrities, and elected officials.

Eleanor has a proven track record of defining and driving communications and media strategies, 

securing media stories in print, radio, and broadcast outlets, including The Washington Post, The 

New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Hill, top international outlets, ABC News, 

CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC News, Bloomberg, Wired, Tech Crunch, 

ReCode, Vanity Fair, and a wide range of regional, local and trade outlets.

She is also a sought-after media trainer for high-level executives, preparing CEOs and other 

corporate leadership for public appearances, speeches, and broadcast interviews.

Previously, Eleanor was a senior vice president at a prominent Washington, D.C.-based 

communications firm, where she crafted strategic communications campaigns focusing on media 

relations and crisis communications. Eleanor came to that firm through the acquisition of the 

bipartisan public affairs firm Purple Nation Solutions, which she co-founded with former White 

House Special Counsel Lanny Davis and former Republican National Committee Chairman 

Michael Steele.

Eleanor began her career at CNN as a journalist. With over a decade of experience as senior 

producer of CNN’s highest-rated program, Larry King Live, Eleanor was responsible for planning, 

booking, and producing exclusive interviews with iconic newsmakers and well-known political 

figures including Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford, House Speaker Nancy 

Pelosi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, every presidential candidate in both 2004 and 2008, 

foreign leaders including Russian Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin, Prime 

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Queens Noor and Rania of Jordan.

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At CNN, Eleanor worked on a number of historical events including the September 11th attacks, 

Hurricane Katrina, the passing of Presidents Ford and Reagan, the inauguration of President 

Obama, and the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Eleanor is a recipient of an Emmy as well as an Edward R. Murrow award for September 11th 

coverage, a 2005 DuPont award for coverage of the tsunami disaster in South Asia, a 2005 and 

2008 Peabody award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and outstanding political coverage of a 

U.S. Presidential campaign, and a 2010 Peabody award for coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf 

of Mexico.

In 2018, Eleanor co-founded Press Forward, an independent and nonpartisan organization that is 

creating a safe work environment and elevating the stature of women in workplace, beginning in 

the newsroom.

Fluent in Russian and Spanish, Eleanor earned her B.A. in economics and sociology from Brandeis 

University and an M.A. in journalism and public affairs from American University.

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Alexander Lange 

Senior Director 

Trident DMG 

Alex Lange is a Senior Director at Trident DMG focused on litigation and 

strategic communications. With a career spanning public relations firms, the 

federal government, and private legal practice, Alex brings the multifaceted 

skills that define Trident’s approach to crisis management and strategic 

communications. 

Alex advises clients embroiled in high-stakes litigation, government 

investigations, public controversies, crises, and sensitive matters. He 

develops and executes strategies that mesh the client’s legal, communication 

and, when necessary, political goals, working closely with the C-suite and inhouse and outside counsel. His clients have included major international 

corporations, start-ups, law firms, higher education institutions, high-net worth individuals, 

political figures, and more.

Alex also represents numerous clients in a wide variety of sectors on a range of public relations 

activities, from providing strategic advice to playing leadership roles in building and executing 

multi-faceted communications campaigns that support the forward-looking business objectives of 

clients. 

Before joining Trident, Alex worked at a prominent public relations firm in Washington, D.C., 

handling some of the firm’s most visible clients in a wide range of high-stakes criminal and civil 

litigation. 

Alex earned a B.A. in History from Wake Forest University and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia 

Law School at George Mason University where he was an editor at the Journal for International 

Commercial Law and the Annual Review of International Banking Law & Practice. 

Alex is admitted to practice law in Virginia and began his legal career practicing criminal defense 

law in Northern Virginia. He has also worked for the U.S. Department of Defense and in local 

prosecutor's offices in both Virginia and the District of Columbia. 

Alex has authored pieces on prominent criminal cases and crisis management published in online 

political publications, including The Hill. 

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Emily Seeley

Account Manager

Trident DMG

Emily Seeley is an Account Manager with wide-ranging experience, 

especially in the technology, hospitality, and non-profit sectors. At Trident, 

Emily focuses on developing and executing earned-media, thought 

leadership, and stakeholder outreach campaigns. Emily is also fluent in social 

media analytics, with experience in corporate marketing.

Before joining Trident, Emily established herself in the industry through a 

series of internships at Trident and leading D.C. communications firms, 

where she executed public relations campaigns for hospitality and food and 

beverage clients and worked on social media and marketing campaigns.

Beyond her career, Emily serves as a Child Life Volunteer at Georgetown MedStar Hospital 

supporting pediatric patients as they cope with illness, hospitalization, and treatment.

Emily has a B.A. in Public Relations and Strategic Communications with a minor in Economics 

from American University. At AU, Emily gained real experience developing advertising campaigns 

for The Humane Society of America and Black Ankle Vineyards. Emily is a San Francisco native 

currently based in Washington, D.C.

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