Neal Patel founded Patel Partners after serving as a Vice President at the Alpine Group, a premier government relations consulting firm in Washington ranked in the Top 20 by Bloomberg Government, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and as a senior staffer in both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.

Prior to joining the Alpine Group, Neal served at 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 under 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 United States Senate and United States House of Representatives as Counsel and Communications Director for two United States Congressmen and one United States 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 also a co-founder of the Asian American Pacific Islander Leadership Association, a 501(c)(6) dedicated to empowering public policy and public affairs professionals of the AAPI community in Washington, D.C.

Neal is a native of Nichols, South Carolina, and a graduate of 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. Neal resides with his wife and two children in Arlington, Virginia.