Doug Goodyear Chief Executive Officer Doug Goodyear is CEO and a founding partner of DCI Group. Throughout the course of his decade-long tenure, DCI Group has grown from a single-client startup to one of the country's largest independently-owned public affairs firms with a host of Fortune 500 corporations and industry associations as clients. Over the past three years, Mr. Goodyear has led DCI Group through a size doubling while dramatically expanding its list of client service offerings. Under his leadership, DCI Group has garnered national recognition for the thoroughness of its public policy campaigns and the prestige of its client list. Before co-founding DCI Group in 1996, Mr. Goodyear served as vice president of Walt Klein and Associates in North Carolina, catering to corporate and political clients. He was also active in campaign politics in Colorado in the 1980s, serving as political director for the state GOP. In 1988 he managed Pete Dawkins' campaign for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. An avid baseball fan, Mr. Goodyear was a leader in the campaign that brought major league baseball to Denver in 1990, as well as the campaign to build Denver's new international airport. Mr. Goodyear is a co-founder of Goodsijn I, LP, an equity fund making investments in real estate and start-up companies. Mr. Goodyear is a graduate of Tufts University and is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization in Phoenix, Arizona. He currently lives in Phoenix with his wife Carla, son Cole and daughter Kendall. Back to Our People