The OB♦C Group, LLC, is a premier, bipartisan, public policy consulting firm scaled in size to provide multiple government relations services, while at the same time giving each client the full attention of its senior professionals. It was founded in 1993 by Lawrence F. O'Brien and Nicholas Calio as was originally named O'Brien♦Calio. When Mr. Calio returned to the Bush White House as Assistant to the President in 2001, the firm kept its familiar moniker, The OB♦C Group.

The OB♦C Group specializes in advocacy before the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal Government The firm provides:

• strategic counseling,
• advocacy with senior government officials, members of Congress and congressional staff
• project management,
• monitoring of and participation in public policy and political events and activities.

The firm’s professionals cover the full spectrum of national issues including:

• energy
• environment
• financial services
• food safety
• foreign relations
• health care
• homeland and national security
• taxation
• telecommunications
• trade and
• transportation.

The OB♦C Group is a very active participant in the Washington D.C. public affairs community.   Its bipartisan professionals contribute time and resources to partisan organizations and interests and volunteer their time and energies to a wide range of non-profit organizations whose mission it is to improve the public policy and political processes.

Thier work on and off Capitol Hill gives them exceptional perspective into the interests, personalities, opinions and character of Republican and Democratic policymakers. This insight enables OB♦C professionals to interact on both sides of the political aisle and accurately forecast, anticipate and, when warranted, help shape responses across the political spectrum. It also enables OB♦C professionals to identify opportunities when bipartisan compromise and/or cooperation are possible, to a greater degree than other firms that do not invest in bipartisan strenghts and balance. OB♦C professionals, in short, are able to cut through partisan rhetoric and provide clients with a clear picture of political realities with far more accuracy and far quicker than firms that function with one-party affiliations.