Exigent Government Relations

What We Do

Effective Advocacy

Too often, organizations fail to manage their policy issues, and instead, allow their issues to manage them. Ultimately, the best defense is a good offense. We provide aggressive, high-impact advocacy on behalf of our clients, ensuring we can help you with any challenge, large or small.

Intelligent Strategy

The advocacy battles of today are not won with one-size-fits-all talking points. Government relations professionals must demonstrate a firm grasp of the policy positions they espouse. Exigent is second-to-none when it comes to understanding our client's needs and crafting the right strategies.

Optimal Outcomes

Our world-class government relations capabilities blend an extensive network of relationships with first class strategy. In short, we produce results.

How We Do It

Constant Engagement

We know Washington, especially Capitol Hill - advocacy success requires regular, ongoing engagement in debates that impact your industry or organization. We have invested the time and resources building a trusted reputation and lasting relationships in our nation's capital. We open doors and ensure those doors remain open, strengthening your voice in Washginton.

Proactive Partnerships

Clients today have grown frustrated with large lobbying firms who fail to provide the principal-level service they were sold. Not with Exigent. We forge true partnerships with our clients and work diligently to serve as a highly engaged extension of their staff.

Passionate Representation

Exigent works tirelessly for our clients every day because we believe in what we do. There is no substitute for an advocate who is passionate about your organization's needs when it comes to getting results that truly make a difference.

President

Jonathan Bergner

Jonathan Bergner is president of Exigent Government Relations. Bergner is a nearly 20-year veteran of Washington D.C. where he has served in a number of capacities inside and outside of government.

Bergner has spent time on both the House and Senate side of Capitol Hill having worked for Congressman Mark Kennedy of Minnesota, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is also active in political campaigning, having worked on several gubernatorial and presidential campaigns.

When Bergner moved to the private sector, he gained experience at several well-known government consulting and public affairs firms. Then in 2007, Bergner joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the nation's largest trade association for property/casualty insurance companies. Over his fourteen years there, he rose to Vice President for Public Policy and Federal Affairs where he managed both the association’s federal advocacy team and its team of public policy experts. He was involved in the full range of NAMIC's government relations activities from legislative strategy to policy development, the political action committee, grassroots mobilization, and strategic communications.

Bergner is a Virginia native of the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of arts in political theory and philosophy and from Georgetown University with a masters degree in U.S. National Security Policy.

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