Lighthouse Public Affairs Employee Directory

Lighthouse Public Affairs was founded in 2016, the result of a merger between two leading Bay Area strategic consultancies. In 2003, Alex Clemens founded Barbary Coast Consulting. In 2009, the San Francisco-based strategic communications shop had become the Bay Area's largest independent full-service public affairs firm. In 2010, Rich Peterson co-f... ounded his own consultancy, and in collaboration with his partner Boe Hayward, steered Goodyear Peterson Hayward to become San Francisco's top lobbying firm in 2015. With the hard-earned mutual respect gained from a half-decade of fierce competition, and with a keen understanding of their similar business models of aggressive, ethical advocacy, the principals of the two firms agreed they'd better serve their clients as partners than as competitors.Read More