CHALLENGES OF GROWTH IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA PAT MCFERRON Founding Partner, CMA Strategies
McFerron brings more than 35 years of election, grassroots, lobbying, and voter opinion research experience to help CMA clients win both at the ballot box and in the legislature. McFerron cut his campaign teeth in the once reliably Democratic parts of Oklahoma.
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He was intricately involved, either directly, through the state party, or through an independent expenditure, in every Republican takeover in the Oklahoma State House and State Senate from 1994 through 2008, when both chambers became Republican controlled for the first time in state history. This net change of more than 50 legislative seats ushered in a new era of leadership in Oklahoma, and McFerron remains at the forefront. In addition to his work with CMA, McFerron serves as President of Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates, a nationally recognized survey research company that has worked in more than 40 states. All totaled, McFerron has worked with multiple Presidential campaigns as well as more than 80 successful U.S. Senate, gubernatorial, and congressional campaigns, over 150 winning legislative races, and more than a dozen statewide or major city mayor victories.
JEFF SEYMOUR Executive Vice President of Economic Development, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber
Jeff Seymour serves as the Executive Vice President for Economic Development for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. In this role he leads the Chamber’s effort to expand the regional economy through new business recruitment, providing support to existing businesses and entrepreneurs and meeting the talent and workforce needs of current and future employers.
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Prior to serving at the Chamber, Seymour served as Executive Director of the Franklin County Development Council, a county-wide economic development organization in the greater Kansas City region and the Executive Director of the Blackwell Chamber of Commerce and Blackwell Industrial Authority in Blackwell, OK. Jeff also worked at the Ponca City Development Authority. Seymour lives in Northern Oklahoma City with his wife Natasha and daughter Emmaline. He is an avid biker and traveler and is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and Northern Oklahoma College with degrees in economics and international business. Jeff holds the status of a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD) through the International Economic Development Council.
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