Mr. Collins, of Arlington, Virginia, is Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Public Private Partnership Inc., an independent strategic planning and political consulting firm in the nation’s capitol. Most recently, Mr. Collins served as a Public Liaison within the Obama-Biden Transition Project following the 2008 United States presidential election. Prior to his role in this year’s presidential transition, Mr. Collins held the position of Senior Political Strategist for then-Presidential Candidate Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential primary and general election.
During the 2004 general election cycle Mr. Collins worked alongside then-Presidential Democratic Nominee, United States Senator John Kerry as a Senior Advisor in his general election campaign; served as the campaign manager for Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Leander J. Shaw, Jr. in 1990; and was a member of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Democratic Business Council during the tenure of DNC Chairman Ron Brown.
Since 1989, Mr. Collins’ Washington, DC-based firm has provided strategic advice to multinational corporations, entrepreneurs, political campaigns, elected leaders, nonprofits and government organizations. Collins serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Political Education & Leadership Institute and is a past board member and Treasurer of the CBC Political Action Committee and the CBC Foundation. Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed him to the Board of Trustees of Florida A&M University in 2001, where he was elected its first Chairman. Following his tenure as a U.S. Senator, the late former Florida Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Collins to the Florida Small and Minority Business Advisory Council and the Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board, where he served on the investment committee overseeing over $2 billion in investments.
Collins was also appointed by former U.S. Senator and then Florida Governor Bob Graham to serve on the Governor’s Business Advisory Council on Education and the State Board of Independent Postsecondary Vocational, Technical, Trade and Business Schools. Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Bob Crawford appointed Collins to the Florida Consumers' Council, where he served as its Chairman. He also served as a member of the Tallahassee-Leon County Florida Planning Commission.
Collins received his B.S. degree in Accounting from the School of Business and Industry at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He has studied law at the University of Miami School of Law in Miami, Florida and abroad at the University of Montpellier in Montpellier, France.
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