Andy Quinn is a founding partner of McAllister & Quinn and manages a portfolio that includes Fortune 500 companies, non profit institutions, and associations.

Prior to founding McAllister & Quinn, Andy worked for 7 years on the staff of Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) where he handled appropriations, transportation, commerce, energy, labor, and government reform issues during his tenure. Congressman Steny Hoyer is the current House Majority Leader – the number two leadership position within the Democratic leadership structure in the U.S. House of Representatives. Through his work in a Leadership office on Capitol Hill, Andy developed close relationships with Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and senior career Executive Branch officials throughout the Federal government.

Although his clients have a diverse range of interests, Andy's core expertise is appropriations. He has an insight and perspective on the appropriations process that only comes from spending years working for a senior Member on the Appropriations Committee. This expertise has produced tangible results for his clients, who have received tens of millions of dollars in Federal funding and government contracts and scored legislative victories through policy riders inserted onto appropriations bills.

Andy is a graduate of the University of Arizona where he received his B.S. in Economics.

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John serves as the Managing Director of McAllister & Quinn Health. Over the last two decades, he has provided consulting and research services to health systems, corporations and law firms on matters of health management, regulation, policy and politics.  Clients have included two of America’s six largest health systems, ten Global 100 Law Firms, the U.S. Department of Justice, ten states’ Attorneys General, Goldman Sachs, and KPMG.

John has extensive experience in healthcare strategy development, performance improvement, and policy design. He is the co-author, with Yale Professor Theodore Marmor, of “Learning From International Health Policy Experience,” which was published in the Journal of the Association of Academic Health Centers (2000).  John is a regular guest lecturer in the Yale School of Management’s Product Planning and Design course.

Educated at Cornell (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering) and Yale (Master’s in Public and Private Management), John has completed stints with Exxon, the United States General Accounting Office, and APM/CSC Healthcare, then the world’s largest management consulting firm devoted exclusively to healthcare.

John serves on the Boards of the Connecticut Secretary of State’s Citizenship Fund and the Connecticut Association for Human Services. He has been a volunteer in the Big Brother program since 1989, and was elected to New Haven’s Board of Alderman between 1993 and 1996.

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Corey joined The Crescent Group in 2001 and currently spearheads the firm’s marketing and research efforts. He has extensive experience in management consulting for hospitals and health systems, sales, marketing and business development efforts and large-scale research projects for law firms and academics.

Corey graduated from the University of Vermont with a BS in Biological Sciences in 1998. Prior to The Crescent Group, Corey worked for the University of Vermont’s Department of Pharmacology and in product development for Bayer Pharmaceuticals.

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Melissa serves as Vice President at McAllister & Quinn. She brings to the firm more than 12 years of public policy experience in the House and Senate and at a national nonprofit. She advocated before Congress and the Administration for mentoring public policy and funding issues as the Director of Government Relations at MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, representing roughly 30 state and local partnerships and 4,000 local mentoring programs across the country.

Prior to that, she served as Legislative Director to Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), leading a collaborative legislative and press team including personal staff and the staff of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee in the development and implementation of the Senator's legislative priorities. In addition, she was responsible for a broad range of issues, including education, economic and financial literacy, child and family, budget, tax, business, the arts, and community service policy. Before that, she worked as a Domestic Policy Advisor for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee under the leadership of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD), and as a legislative and press staffer for the late Congresswoman Patsy Mink (D-HI).

Melissa hails from the Island of Maui, Hawaii, and earned her BS in biology and communication at Cornell University and her MBA in strategy and marketing from the Yale School of Management.

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Ellen serves as Vice President at McAllister & Quinn. Ellen comes to the firm with substantial experience working on both authorizing and appropriations issues in Congress, as well as in Democratic politics.

Prior to joining McAllister & Quinn, Ellen worked for Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) for more than eleven years, and as her Chief of Staff since 2002. Congresswoman Roybal-Allard is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and a former Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. As Chief of Staff, Ellen was responsible for managing both the Washington, DC and Los Angeles offices, as well as overseeing the office’s appropriations agenda. During her tenure with Congresswoman Roybal-Allard, Ellen has worked on the Budget Committee, the Financial Services Committee, and the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China. In addition, she handled a broad spectrum of issues, including health, labor, crime, and tax policy.

Ellen is a native of Sacramento and earned her BA in political science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and her M.A. in political science from Stanford University.

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Steve serves as a Director of Federal Affairs at McAllister & Quinn. He brings over 13 years of congressional and government affairs experience to his clients. Steve lobbies Congress and the Executive Branch on a wide range of issues, including appropriations, coastal issues, transportation, economic development, water and wastewater treatment, and not-for-profit issues.

Steve began his career on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who is the current Chairwoman of the Environment & Public Works Committee. Steve also served as Legislative Director to Congressman Frank Mascara, who served on the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and the Financial Services Committee. Through his experience managing appropriations requests in both the House and Senate, as well as handling all legislative issues that came before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Steve is able to help clients achieve their goals by navigating the complex workings of the legislative process. His network of contacts on Capitol Hill and knowledge of Congressional procedure are an invaluable resource to clients.

Prior to joining McAllister & Quinn, Steve worked for another firm where he represented a wide variety of municipal and non-profit organizations before Congress and federal agencies. He also served as Vice President of Government Affairs for a transportation trade association and as Director of Federal Affairs for a lobbying firm where he specialized in transportation and municipal needs.

Steve holds a bachelor's degree in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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