About Us

Carl Silverberg, President of Silverberg Associates was in the financial services industry for almost ten years before moving into the political world. He has been in campaign management and political consulting positions in congressional, gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns throughout the United States. Carl worked as a political consultant to Presidents and Presidential candidates in Central America, South America and Europe and is currently advising the President of Ghana. In addition, he was a Chief of Staff to a Member of Congress.

After the 1998 congressional campaign cycle, he formed Silverberg Associates, a firm that specialized in raising PAC contributions for Members of Congress and challengers. By combining his extensive political consulting background with his background as an investment banker, clients routinely out raised their opponents by at least a 4:1 margin. As an example, Congressman Gary Ackerman's annual NY Deli Event is one of the most anticipated fundraisers in DC each year.

In 2006, Mr. Silverberg expanded fundraising services with a west coast office and last cycle the firm began assisting individuals and families with their political strategy. Carl’s primary responsibilities with the firm are setting the overall fundraising strategy, political consulting for international clients and strategic consulting for corporate and individual clients. He still finds time to staff “call time” with his senior Members of Congress.

Carl is a frequent guest lecturer at universities, an occasional guest on television and radio talk shows and is a constant background source for newspaper articles. He continues to contribute to professional magazines and newspapers and recently finished his first novel. As most people know, you can find him on the ski slope every weekend from November through April and in a kayak or on a bike the other months.

June Silverberg, senior partner in the firm is a former agricultural lobbyist whose insight into the legislative aspect of federal campaigns is crucial in targeting support for challengers. June worked in the corporate world before moving to Capitol Hill and has extensive campaign experience at both the federal and state level.

Before moving to the west coast, she was a lobbyist for the National Corn Growers Association and directed their international trade and biotech efforts, coordinating the Association's effort on CAFTA and WTO. Previous to that, she held the position of Director of Corporate Development for the National Association of Wheat Growers which later included the responsibility of fundraising for their foundation and federal PAC.

Her in-depth understanding of the legislative process and her relationships with the PAC community enable her to find sources of contributions that usually are not explored. Ms. Silverberg retains responsibility for all the incumbents in terms of ensuring each client is on target with their fundraising plans. June’s fond of the movies, art and on a sunny day you will usually catch her taking a jog along Puget Sound or between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.

Barry Caro is a Democratic political professional in New York City. He has worked on citywide, statewide, and national campaigns, as well as interning on Capitol Hill and in City Hall, and has a deep understanding of New York and national politics. Most recently, he worked as Deputy Communications Director and Volunteer Coordinator at the New York State Democratic Party, helping the Party win all six statewide elections in 2010.

Barry graduated Princeton University with a degree in History, and his independent work included a study of the West Side Stadium and other major, contemporary sports development projects and proposals in New York City. He is an avid sabermatrician, and lover of all New York sports teams not named the “Yankees.”

Skyler Craig also started as an intern with Silverberg and Associates in 2009, where she participated in political fundraising and event planning.

Upon graduating from the University of Washington, Skyler pursued her dream of going to law school and has come back part time to help us in the Seattle office. Her focus is on working with our west coast challengers.

Skyler is currently beginning her second year at Seattle University School of Law. Her focus is on mediation, arbitration, and international consulting.

Skyler works out of our West Coast office.

John A. Howes, Jr. is our Director of Operations. John was graduated in 2009 from Fordham University with a B.A. cum laude in Political Science and Spanish Language & Literature. He was twice awarded Fordham’s Campion Institute Fellowship: in 2007, to study the Lithuanian language and politics at Vilnius University in Lithuania, and in 2008, to study New York City’s political system while working at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. He has held various positions and internships in Federal, state, and local government, including the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.

As a member of the New York City Urban Fellows Program from 2009 to 2010, John worked on Federal financial regulatory policy and savings initiatives at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. In summer 2010, he returned to Maryland and led a satellite field office on Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s successful reelection campaign. Most recently, John worked for Maryland Delegate Kirill Reznik during the 2011 Legislative Session.

John hails from Rockville, Maryland and is a proud graduate of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, participating as a long-time member of Baltimore’s Lithuanian Folk Dance Group “Malūnas,” and supporting the English soccer team, Manchester United.

Eftihia Thomopoulos comes to us from Barnard College with a B.A. in Political Science.

During her time as an undergraduate, she spent a summer studying the European Union and European policy in Brussels, Belgium. She has campaign and fundraising experience in both the public and the private sector having worked for Congressman Gary Ackerman of New York as well as in Development for Barnard. She has also done public relations for Hearst Magazines.

Eftihia is based in our New York office.