As President, Jim Gianiny oversees DDC Advocacy’s efforts to design and build strategic advocacy programs that impact our clients’ issues.  With more than 20 years of experience managing full-scale communications and mobilization campaigns, Jim has worked with corporate and association clients from a range of industries to build, implement, and sustain major grassroots initiatives on critical public policy issues.

Jim has been with DDC Advocacy for more than 10 years, and before becoming president, he served as chief operating officer.  In that role, he drove growth of the technology product line from a single online grassroots application to a full array of grassroots and PAC management systems, and he oversaw staff expansion from five employees to the more than 160 currently serving DDC Advocacy’s client base.  Prior to joining DDC Advocacy, Jim was a founding member of The Direct Impact Company, coordinating company operations and overseeing the firm’s lauded growth during the 1990s.

Jim holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism, with a specialization in Public Relations, from the University of Maryland, and he is a founder and board member of the Life and Breath Foundation.