These four companies have applied for Allied membership in CNPA. Allied members provide goods and services to the trade, including to CNPA.

Beacon Advisors, Inc., Chicago (Strategic communications); Hud Englehart, Managing Partner

KP Public Affairs LLC, Sacramento (Communications); Michael Burns, Managing Member and CEO

Neptune Ops, Lafayette (Paid digital and social media advertising); Bryan Miller, President

Platinum Advisors, LLC, Sacramento (Lobbying); Darius Anderson, Managing Member

Until confirmation by the CNPA Board of Directors, the applicants are provisional members of CNPA and eligible for all the benefits of membership.

For more about the companies’ roles in CNPA’s strategic operations, please read the new California Publisher column by Charles Ford Champion II, President and CEO, CNPA Services Inc.