Jay Vincent has more than a decade of experience managing people and projects in both the public and private sectors. As Senior Vice President of Business Development at Saint Consulting, he has responsibility for managing a sales team charged with acquiring new clients across a dozen different industries. Additionally, he serves as the firm’s Energy Sector Practice Leader including work in the renewable and traditional energy sectors. Previous to this role, Jay served as Regional Vice President with management responsibility for 33 states, four business units and dozens of clients across multiple industries. He also worked as Regional Division Manager of Midwest operations and as a project manager with the firm.
Prior to his work at Saint Consulting, Jay was a regional field and political director at a progressive non-profit, running field organizing and political operations in five Upper Midwest states. He also managed the field organizing efforts of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s online and offline independent expenditure program during the 2004 campaign cycle. During three years at the DCCC, he worked as deputy to the executive director, training director and special assistant to the chairman.
Before his professional work in campaigns and politics Jay also worked in government for several years as a staffer in both the United States Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives as a legislative aide, legislative correspondent and staff assistant.
Outside of his professional roles, Jay has taken numerous leadership responsibilities within professional organizations. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and also presided over the significant growth of Washington D.C.’s premiere professional development and networking group, the Democratic Networking Group. He is a lifetime member and alumni of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, having served as delegate to Taiwan and as lead facilitator and representative of a USAID-funded program in Moldova for a 14-nation Eastern European Young Political Leaders Conference. Most recently, he co-founded Notre Dame’s “Conversation on Leadership and Ethics”.
Jay is a graduate of Marquette University and the Les Aspin Center for Government Studies. He holds a Master’s in Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Jay lives in Chicago with his wife, Kelly, their son Jack and his dog, Maggie.
