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Sydney Ferguson is President of Lockhart Strategies International, LLC, a global consulting firm, where she brings years of experience advising clients on domestic and international energy, environmental, political, and health solutions within the government relations and public affairs arena.
Ferguson's company, Lockhart Strategies International LLC, is a niche player in Washington, helping companies create government relations strategies to expand business capabilities; working with emerging energy technologies and environmentally-friendly products to gain market access; developing pilot programs and championing relationships for firms in the public and private sector.
Qualifying for federal funding involves a myriad of steps, and Ferguson consults with CEO's and senior management teams to make long-term business decisions to help bring products to a larger marketplace. Whether taking advantage of production tax credits or working with a company to help increase their opportunities with venture capital firms, Ferguson is skilled in evaluating the government relations strategy and public relations efforts of a company to ultimately increase shareholder value.
Ferguson consults with companies to showcase their products in strategic locations, giving the highest visibility to gain market value. In addition, she creates and manages communications strategies as a company receives funding, heads towards an IPO or is already listed on an exchange. Ferguson also oversees large scale campaigns that can open the playing field to certain technologies.
Finding thought leader champions from the public, private and NGO sector for a client generates additional bench strength and improves branding. In addition, Ferguson works with major corporations to assess their corporate environmental sustainability policies.
Lockhart Strategies International, LLC’s recent projects include management consulting for a large scale green industrial city with manufacturing, ship-building, deep port development and renewable energy components in India; working with a multinational conglomerate as a global health consultant to create a strategy to deploy an emergency health infrastructure system in various nation states in Africa; identifying stimulus funding opportunities for solar clients and other large scale projects with the Departments of Energy.
Ferguson’s previous work includes serving as Managing Director of the Carmen Group’s Energy Practice, where she worked on alternative energy tax credits, carbon cap and trade tax issues, and aid for refugees in Iraq. She served as Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Corporate Communications for USEC, Inc., the world's largest uranium enrichment company (NYSE:USU) where she was responsible for liaison between the $2.1 billion revenue company and the Department of Energy. As Managing Director at Qorvis Communications, Ferguson helped manage major legislation and crisis communication issues as well as supervised the communications and government relations programs for clients including Invensys, XL Capital, The Embassy of Saudi Arabia, British Nuclear Fuels, and USEC, Inc.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ferguson came to Washington to serve as Legislative Assistant for Energy and the Environment to Congressman Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey, Jr. (R-CA), and three years later as Energy Legislative Assistant to Senator S.I. Hayakawa (R-CA).
Her philanthropic interests focus on global sustainability issues. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, Oregon, working to preserve salmon in Pacific Rim countries. She sits on the Chairman's Council for Conservation International where she is one of the co-founders of the Women's Conservation Forum. Ferguson also serves on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Sustainability at Colorado College. Ferguson is a member of the Climate Change working committee of the American Council on Renewable Energy advising legislators on global climate change and she is an active member of the US Nuclear Infrastructure Council.
Ferguson received a BA in Political Economics from the Colorado College where she wrote her thesis, "A Cost Comparison of Nuclear versus Coal for Electrical Generation 1985—2000." She has completed two executive education courses at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business: Finance and Accounting for the non-Financial Executive (April 2003) and Negotiation and Influence Strategies, (April 2004).
Ferguson lives in Georgetown and is an avid sportswoman who enjoys fly-fishing, skiing, wildlife photography, and playing classical piano.
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