Lobbying firm names longtime officer as partner

BRANDON—Natalie King has been named partner at the Brandon lobbying firm RSA Consulting.

King, who joined the firm shortly after it opened in 2011, has previously worked as RSA’s vice president and chief operating officer.

Before moving to RSA, she worked in the corporate world with stints at Cannon Business Machines, Discovery Channel Stores and HouseHold Bank, according to a statement. King also oversaw government, community, and philanthropic affairs at Pepin Distributing Co. in Tampa and was public policy director at the Tampa Bay Partnership. She also chairs the Cultural Arts Council in Hillsborough County.

At RSA she has specialized “in all areas of government and legislative affairs, community affairs, strategic planning and media and public relations in Florida,” the firm says in the statement.

RSA currently represents more than 70 clients, among them the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Straz Center, Tampa Sports Authority, Moffitt Cancer Center and the Pinellas County Transit Authority.

The firm has offices in Brandon and Tallahassee.