Rob Hartwell is a native of Alexandria, Virginia.  A former Chief of Staff to Reps. Dick Schulze (R-PA) and Nick Smith (R-MI), Hartwell also worked for Reps. Mike Oxley (R-OH) and Mac Sweeney (R-TX).  As Chief of Staff for Schulze, he was an Associate Staff Member of the Committee on Ways and Means where he orchestrated billions of dollars in tax legislation. His first legislative effort working for Rep. Oxley involved working to help improve the Superfund program in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Since 2001, Rob has served as President of Hartwell Capitol Consulting, a full-service lobbying, business development and technology development firm, and has conducted business here and abroad in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. In his business practice, one of his key objectives is to monetize and reduce waste.

During his career, he has orchestrated more than $23 billion in appropriation, direct funding and tax provisions and has raised over $4 million for charities and campaigns. He has obtained billions in the Congress to fund cellulosic ethanol research; to decommission nuclear power plants and to protect Nuclear plant Qualified Progress Investment Expenditures; and worked on nuclear power issues globally, from China to Nigeria, Vietnam, Canada and Yucca Mountain. In business, he has represented top nuclear consulting companies and looked to help build plants in Canada, Nigeria, and Bulgaria and to fund SMR research here in the United States.

Rob was a Virginia Commissioner on the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) and also served on Virginia’s juvenile gang task force and its project exile board.  Rob served as a Fairfax County, Virginia Planning Commissioner at Large (appointed by Hon. Tom Davis (R-VA)) where he chaired the environment subcommittee, and he is past President of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority Foundation.  In 2008, he was presented with the Marcia Duvall Award, the highest award by the Virginia State Parks.  He is known for his innovative work on monetizing pollution and waste to both clean up the environment and save energy companies and governments millions of dollars.