Lobbying World

• BGR Government Affairs hired Brent Del Monte to serve as a senior vice president. He spent the last decade at the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

• Nicole Vasilaros has been named vice president of federal and legal affairs for the National Marine Manufacturers Association, a promotion for the five-year veteran of the trade group. She initially managed the state lobbying portfolio but took on a federal portfolio in 2013. She previously worked for former Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.) on Capitol Hill.

{mosads}• Liz Craddock, who worked for former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been hired as the vice president of policy and government affairs for the International Association of Drilling Contractors. 

• FaegreBD Consulting is bringing on Charles “Skip” Stitt as a senior director with the firm’s government advocacy and consulting team in Washington. He most recently worked as the managing director of the United States Infrastructure Management Corporation, an investment firm. Before that, he served for nine years at Affiliated Computer Services, now Xerox.

• Hayden Rogers has left Capitol Hill, where he served as the chief of staff to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), to become managing director at K Street firm Bockorny Group.

• The Beer Institute has hired Michael Uhrich, who will serve as the trade group’s chief economist, and Joe Heaton, the organization’s new director of federal affairs. Uhrich comes from MillerCoors, where he managed the marketplace intelligence function in the company’s Insights division. Heaton comes from the Capitol, where he served as the deputy chief of staff and legislative director to Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.).

• Sam Mahler, who most recently worked at Fidelity Investments, is joining the office of Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) as a legislative assistant working on Banking Committee issues. 

•Holland & Knight hired Taite McDonald as a senior policy adviser and added Nathan Kron as a senior public affairs adviser and Stephen Bolotin as public affairs adviser. They all came from the firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.