Tax Lobbyist Cristina Antelo joins Podesta Group as Principal

[private]Cristina Antelo, a Principal with the Podesta Group, handles a diverse range of legislative, regulatory and policy issues before Congress and the executive branch. Her areas of expertise include financial services, tax, intellectual property and trade. Prior to joining the Podesta Group, Cristina worked with the government affairs practice of a Washington, DC, law firm, where she provided strategic counsel and advocacy to health care, trade and appropriations clients.

Prior to her political career, Cristina was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co for several years. She was a financial analyst in the company’s private wealth management division in New York with an operational focus on high-net-worth individuals. Her responsibilities included margin account management, compliance with regulatory requirements and reporting. Cristina later joined the trading floor in Los Angeles to gain trading and portfolio management experience and was promoted to associate. She was an NASD (now FINRA) Registered Representative completing her Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Cristina was a Legal Fellow on the Senate Democratic Steering Committee chaired by former Sens. Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle, where she focused her work on Latino outreach and constituent issues. Cristina is a founding member and Vice President of the Hispanic Lobbying Association and serves on the board of the Hispanic Bar Association of DC Foundation. In 2009, the Embassy of Spain, as part of its Young Hispanic Leaders Program, honored her for her essay “What Does It Mean to Be Hispanic in the US?” [/private]