Horace E. "Chip" Mann
Director of Development
H. Edward Mann, a native of Petersburg, Virginia, has held a variety of governmental and political positions, starting when he served as Assistant to Virginia’s Secretary of the Commonwealth during the administration of Governor John Dalton. His most expansive national positions involved a) directing and managing the activities of 37 federal agencies and innumerable state, local and foreign groups engaged in commemorative activities while serving as Executive Director of the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission, and; b) building support for education reform when he was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as Special Assistant and Director for Special Events for AMERICA 2000 for Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander.
As an independent public affairs consultant, his clients have included the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the National Coalition on Health Care and the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks, as well as several other Washington-based nonprofit national grassroots advocacy organizations. He has been involved with the White House Advance Office - planning trips and events - since 1981, and has worked with Presidents and Vice Presidents in three administrations. He also served as Director of Operations for the Inauguration of Robert McDonnell as the 71st Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mann has negotiated across the globe with citizens and political and governmental leaders from dozens of countries. He has been quoted in several major daily newspapers, and has appeared on the BBC, on CNN, and been a guest on numerous talk-radio shows.
As an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary, he double-majored in Philosophy and Government. His campus activities included being elected President of the F.H.C. Society, considered the oldest collegiate fraternal organization in America – distinguished members include Thomas Jefferson. Eight months after graduating, Mann was appointed to the William and Mary Board of Visitors as the youngest member on that body in the 317 years since the College’s founding. He and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia and his son Will is currently a student at William and Mary.