President

Jon Eames is an experienced leader in government affairs, media relations, and public relations in Oregon and Washington State. With over 23 years of experience in the political arena, he brings a wealth of in-depth knowledge of the legislative process and has outstanding working relationships with elected officials, staff, and key state policy makers.

Seeing an opportunity to create a government affairs firm with the standards and approach he believes to be the most effective, Jon founded Eames Consulting in 2010. Starting with just two clients, Eames Consulting represented over 15 different entities during the 2017 Legislative Session.

Many consultants know how to kill bills. Fewer know how to pass them. Jon is among the elite few capable of both passing (or killing) bills and successfully shepherding funding requests through the often-opaque budget process. Jon is well-known and respected in the Oregon Capitol because of his persistence, his strategic thinking, and his high success rate for clients. While Jon is a health care specialist, he is capable of providing generalist strategic advice regardless of the policy area.

Prior to starting Eames Consulting, Jon served as the Executive Director of the Washington Health Care Association (WHCA), the largest long-term care association in Washington State. While consulting on behalf of for-profit and not-for-profit clients, Jon advanced an aggressive long-term care agenda for WHCA. He formed lasting relationships with key leadership and policy makers in Washington State. 

Jon also led legislative efforts in Salem as the Senior Vice President for Pac/West Communications. In this capacity, Jon represented Fortune 500 companies, the building trades unions, and a variety of health care clients. While serving clients at Pac/West, Jon gained experience in transportation, corporate tax policy, and the state budget. Prior to joining Pac/West, Jon held the position of President and owner of Fuse Advertising Agency where he provided clients nationwide with advertising and marketing services.

Jon graduated from Willamette University with a BA in Political Science. When he isn’t at the office (he’s at the office a lot), he enjoys family time with his wife and four daughters, coaching youth swimming, volunteering as a member of non-profit boards, playing basketball and tennis, and avoiding injuries as much as possible.

Vice President

With 28 years of experience walking the halls of the Oregon State Capitol, Angi Dilkes knows the location of all of the secret staircases and can get to any corner of the building in approximately four minutes flat.

In addition to her stealthy speed, Angi also possesses a wealth of knowledge that she uses to help our clients succeed. From fighting for fair wages, hours, and working conditions for Oregon’s skilled Union tradespeople to regulatory changes within the construction world, from codifying environmental stewardship in state statute to implementing a tourism tax increase to help fund a World’s Fair-like event, from guiding IT companies as they engage in legislative and executive branch processes to negotiating a multi-billion dollar transportation package, Angi dives deeply into problems and uses her finely-honed instincts to both accurately predict and remove obstacles and identify paths (and backup paths) to victory.

Angi joined the Eames Consulting team in 2013 (doubling the number of employees), after a stint at U.S. Bank. There, as Vice President and Manager of Community Relations, she directed U.S. Bancorp Foundation dollars, managed event sponsorship and community involvement budgets, evaluated non-profit organizations for potential investment, and acted as the company’s local public relations and government affairs representative.

Before joining U.S. Bank, Angi served as Vice President of Legislative Affairs for the Oregon Business Association (OBA), where she directed government affairs activities to ensure successful adoption of most of OBA’s 2011 Legislative Agenda. While on staff, she also spent three months as an executive-on-loan to former Governor John Kitzhaber’s Oregon Education Investment Project.

Among her favorite professional assignments was for Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, during much of his second term in office. As a member of his six-person executive team, Angi led policy staff in developing and accomplishing aggressive legislative agendas for the 2009 and 2010 legislative sessions. Initially hired as Legislative Director, Angi was later promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff.

Previously, Angi was Senior Vice President of Pac/West Communications, managing government affairs efforts for as many as 16 diverse clients at any given time, while providing informal day-to-day management of the Oregon office. Angi started her political career at consulting firm Martin & Associates as an intern for the 1997 Legislative Session.

Born in Central Oregon, raised on the Southern Oregon Coast long enough to develop a deep affinity for the ocean, a third-generation graduate of Roosevelt High School in North Portland, and a Willamette University graduate, Angi’s love of her home state is palpable. In addition to her professional political pursuits, she writes stories, grows flowers, sews quilts, reads books, and eagerly seeks new adventures.

Director

Cassie Bruske has been an advocate in Oregon's Capitol for over a decade. Cassie works closely with budget leadership and policymakers to make the connections necessary for change. Her focus areas include nonprofit issues, health care, behavioral health, and early childhood education. Before her career in state-level government affairs, she served as Congressman Kurt Schrader’s Campaign Manager and as a Deputy Finance Director for Governor Kitzhaber. In both roles, she collaborated with a regionally diverse network of Oregon constituencies, resulting in their successful reelections.

Cassie was born and raised in the greater Portland area and graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in Psychology and Nonprofit Administration. As a proud Oregonian, she enjoys exploring Portland's restaurant scene and (when weather allows) getting outside with her husband and young daughter.

Program Manager

From wrangling dozens of participants attending several dozen meetings on any given legislative day at the Capitol to tracking legislation and agency activity, to gently and firmly keeping projects on track, Hannah quickly became the glue we didn’t know we needed after joining the team in 2018. Hannah serves as communications nerd, graphic designer, and logistics buff for the Eames Team.

Previously focused on the nonprofit world, Hannah managed successful events, raised money for good causes, and helped organizations tell their stories in a compelling and persuasive way.

Hannah received a Masters in Communication from Drury University (Springfield, Missouri) and a BA in Nonprofit Leadership from Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri).

Outside of her work with the Eames Team, Hannah is a watercolor artist and illustrator. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, she enjoys getting inspiration from the beaches and wilderness up and down the East Coast.