Cameron Clemence

Cam is a founding member and Vice President of McAllister and Quinn’s Research Universities Practice. Cam’s leadership and insight has been instrumental in developing and tailoring the company’s client servicing approach for research universities. Cam works with university leadership, government relations personnel, research development support staff, research administrators, and researchers to grow, develop, diversify, and future-proof their research and development funding portfolios. Cam’s primary roles are to serve as the primary point of contact for McAllister & Quinn’s research university clients and to guide the Practice’s managing directors and research analysts with their development and delivery of strategic intelligence, capacity-building support, and research development support. Cam also leads many of the Practice’s government relations support engagements. Cam regularly engages with key Capitol Hill and federal agency stakeholders and has experience developing successful appropriations and authorization requests. Cam’s federal agency engagement support has resulted in new partnerships between institutions of higher education and the Office of Naval Research, Army Research Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Uniformed Services University, Department of State, Forest Service, and more. Cam has also successfully supported clients for multimillion-dollar grant awards from a range of federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Science Foundation. Since joining the firm in 2017, Cam has helped secure over $350,000,000 in funding for his university clients.

Prior to joining McAllister & Quinn, Cam worked as a Senior Business Development Associate at OpenWater, Inc. At OpenWater, he led marketing campaigns and provided software consulting to media companies and trade associations. Cam also conducted biophysics research at Harvard University’s Berg Laboratory and neuroscience research at Newcastle University’s Institute of Neuroscience in the United Kingdom. As a result, Cam is well-versed in systems neuroscience, electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and gene editing.

Cam holds a B.A. in neurobiology and a minor in energy & environment from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

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