Neal Patel

Neal Patel joined Alpine Group from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), serving as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Director for Management. Prior to this role as senior staff, Neal served as the Deputy Associate Director for Legislative Affairs for then-OMB Director Mick Mulvaney. As the Director’s primary liaison to the United States Senate and the Congressional Black Caucus, Neal worked intimately with colleagues within the Executive Office of the President, principals and civil servants across federal Cabinet agencies, and members and staff of the Senate and House. Neal also served as Director Mulvaney’s primary liaison to the business community and industry stakeholders. During his tenure at the White House, Neal also concurrently served at the Office of Personnel Management as the federal agency’s Acting Chief of Staff. Before his political appointment to the executive branch, Neal spent seven years in the legislative branch in both the US Senate and US House of Representatives as Counsel and Communications Director for two US Congressmen and one US Senator serving on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance and the Senate Banking Committees. His primary focus was on policy issues pertaining to financial services, banking, digital payments, blockchain/cryptocurrency, tax, energy, commerce, healthcare, and appropriations/budget. Neal is a native of Nichols, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Business Administration. He attained his law degree from the Charleston School of Law.