Roger Alan Stone
President and CEO
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Mr. Stone is founder and CEO of Advocacy Data. Advocacy Data is a leading source of trusted political data and he is known for pioneering many of the online advocacy and engagement techniques practiced today.
He is an award-winning new media entrepreneur and won the American Association of Political Consultants Pollie awards for his work for MoveOn and AFSCME.
His work is widely reported in the national media including:
- Newspapers - The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Washington Business Journal
- Magazines - Fortune Magazine, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, Ad Age
- Capitol Hill Media - Roll Call, The Hill, The National Journal
- Broadcast Media - Fox News, CNN, NPR
He has addressed the representatives of all the German political parties and consulted with the Swedish Labor Party.
In 2000, Campaigns and Election Magazine named Mr. Stone a “Rising Star of American Politics.”
Previously he founded the Juno Advocacy Network (JAN) in February 1998 and built it into a $5 million business.
In 1998, Mr. Stone practiced law at the Washington, D.C. firm of James & Hoffman where he handled litigation and assisted in the formation a biotech start-up company.
Mr. Stone promoted recommendations of the Panel on Educational Technology of the President’s Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, working with Dr. David E. Shaw.
Between 1986 and 1994, Mr. Stone worked on Capitol Hill and managed many political campaigns.
Mr. Stone received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983.
People meeting him today might be surprised to know that at age 19 he hitchhiked through Mexico and Guatemala for a month on $260.
