Reggie Salvador

Vice President, Government Navigation

With a unique and intimate understanding of the multiple inter-dependencies between the public and private sectors, Reggie Salvador brings extensive and practical experience in legislative, policy and program development, implementation, and management. Reggie has both a long history and proven ability operating in highly consequential settings while simplifying complicated issues to achieve maximum and most often mutually beneficial results. All of which involve expertly navigating local, state, and federal laws, complex regulatory frameworks, financial outcomes, and political dynamics among multiple stakeholders.

For nearly 10 years, Reggie served as Chief of Legislative and External Affairs at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) at a time of global proliferation of cyber-attacks, extreme weather and climate impacts led to 15 of the most destructive wildfires in California history and the COVID-19 pandemic reset business models. By coordinating and collaborating with local, state, and federal elected and non-elected officials and all stakeholders, Reggie worked to strengthen all-hazard response, recovery, and mitigation efforts though State and federal legislation. Historic initiatives that were developed and implemented during Reggie’s tenure include, but are not limited to, restructuring how the state’s 9-1-1 system is paid for, state reregulation of Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP), how investor-owned utilities implement Public Safety Power Shutoffs, the establishment of both the California Cybersecurity Integration Center and Wildfire Forecast & Threat Intelligence Integration Center and the reestablishment of federal congressional earmarks for community-funded projects.

Salvador was also co-founder of Diamante Partners LLC a private firm which provided strategic advisory and operational services to public and private sector entities. In addition, Reggie was Program Director for James Lee Witt Associates, founded by the former Director of FEMA under President Clinton. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. History, Reggie advised the Governor of Louisiana on post-hurricane policy initiatives culminating in the creation of the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP). Aside from public sector clients, Reggie also represented various private sector entities including portfolio companies of private equity firms, real estate investment trusts, residential and commercial developers, energy, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, technology and insurance companies.

From 1999-2003 Reggie served as Deputy Cabinet Secretary in the Office of the Governor where he had direct oversight of and was liaison to state boards and commissions, state agencies and departments including the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, California Highway Patrol, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Public Utilities Commission, Department of General Services, Business, Transportation and Housing, Food and Agriculture, Labor and Workforce Development and Consumer Services.