Alix Burns is the President of Bay Bridge Strategies, Inc. Founded in 2006, Bay Bridge is a strategic consulting and public affairs firm with expertise in the innovation economy with clients in the technology, energy and healthcare sectors. She has more than 16 years experience in the political arena with a diverse background on campaigns, in political organizations and business in the energy, technology and innovation sectors.
 
Technology, while pervasive in our society, is constantly changing, improving and redefining itself. As technologies change and evolve, so too does the intersection of public policy and technology. Bay Bridge Strategies specializes in helping companies keep pace – either proactively or reactively – with ever-changing technology innovations and the resulting policy implications. Policy and politics fundamentally impact organizations of every size, be it an entrepreneur working on a new technology, a venture capital firm assessing the impact of new regulations, or a Fortune 100 company responding to international competition.
 
Bay Bridge Strategies applies strategic thinking, long-term expertise and dynamic advocacy to serve the needs of our clients. Ms. Burns has expertise in building teams to meet the personalized needs of the client either for an individual company or by building out policy campaigns and/or coalitions around an initiative with a broad-base of stakeholders.  Given the focus on energy policy in the 111th Congress, Ms. Burns worked on energy priorities including proposed climate legislation and tax policies impacting renewable energy, and she also spearheaded a broad-based coalition to create a new rebate program to incent homeowners towards energy efficiency retrofits.
 
Prior to founding Bay Bridge Strategies, Ms. Burns served as Vice President of Democratic Outreach for TechNet, a leading bi-partisan network of technology and biotechnology CEOs and venture capitalists committed to the growth of the innovation and technology economies.
 
In more than six years at TechNet, Ms. Burns worked directly with innovation leaders, entrepreneurs and policy leaders in Washington, D.C. and technology sectors nationwide, handling a number of issue campaigns and coalitions aimed at the advancement of technology policies in our society. She also spearheaded TechNet Day and the TechNet Innovation Summit.  Ms. Burns served on the 2000 Presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore as Finance Director for Major States, and ran the Washington office of the Bonner Group. Ms. Burns has also worked as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee and the 1996 Democratic Convention.
 
Ms. Burns received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.