Our People

Art Collins is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Public Private Partnership Inc., an independent strategic planning and political consulting firm. Since 1989, the firm has provided strategic advice to multinational corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, political campaigns, political parties, elected leaders, nonprofits and government organizations.

Collins served as a Senior Political Strategist for United States President Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential primary and general election campaign. He subsequently served as a Public Liaison within the Obama-Biden Transition Project following that election. In 2004, Collins was Senior Advisor to United States Senator John Kerry, the Presidential Democratic Nominee during his general election campaign for President of the United States. In 1990, he served as campaign manager for Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Leander J. Shaw, Jr. Collins was a member of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Democratic Business Council during the tenure of DNC Chairman Ron Brown.

Collins serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Political Education & Leadership Institute and is Chairman of its think tank, the 21st Century Council. He was also a board member and Treasurer for both the CBC Political Action Committee and the CBC Foundation. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Alliance for Digital Equality, a bipartisan consumer advocacy organization serving underserved communities on matters that pertain to information technology, telecommunications reform and product awareness. Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed him to the Board of Trustees of Florida A&M University in 2001, where he was elected its first Chairman. Following his tenure as a U.S. Senator, the late former Florida Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Collins to the Florida Small and Minority Business Advisory Council and the Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board, where he served on the investment committee overseeing over $2 billion in investments. Collins was also appointed by former U.S. Senator and then Florida Governor Bob Graham to serve on the Governor's Business Advisory Council on Education and the State Board of Independent Postsecondary Vocational, Technical, Trade and Business Schools. Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Bob Crawford appointed Collins to the Florida Consumers' Council, where he served as its Chairman. He also served as a member of the Tallahassee-Leon County, Florida Planning Commission.

In 1982, Collins started his professional career as a systems engineer and account marketing representative with the IBM Corporation. During 1987 and 1988, he served as a Deputy Receiver and Legislative Affairs Director with the Florida Department of Insurance. He was appointed in 1989 by the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives to the position of Staff Director for the Office of Black Affairs, providing technical and political support to African-American legislators.

Collins was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.S. degree in Accounting and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He studied international law at the University of Miami School of Law in Miami, Florida and abroad at the University of Montpellier in Montpellier, France. He is married to Sela Thompson Collins and has five children.

Henry Hunter is the General Counsel of Public Private Partnership, Inc, an independent political and
business consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Since 1989, the firm has provided strategic advice
to multinational corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, political campaigns, political parties, elected
leaders, nonprofits and government organizations.

From 2006-2008, Hunter worked in the Legal and Business Affairs Departments of the Washington
Nationals Baseball Club. While reporting directly to the Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and the
General Counsel, Hunter drafted and negotiated complex commercial agreements between the team
and its sponsors, suite holders, vendors, radio networks, and licensees. Hunter was also responsible
for a wide range of construction, zoning, risk management, and tax issues as the club moved from
RFK Stadium to Nationals Park in partnership with the District of Columbia Sports and Entertainment
Commission. In 2006, Hunter was a summer associate in the Washington, DC, office of Morgan Lewis,
an international law firm at which he focused on trademark, copyright, labor and employment law.

In 2008, Hunter was a grass roots volunteer with Obama for America in Virginia and Florida, leading neighborhood based voter turnout efforts. In March of 2007, he co-founded and led the Georgetown University Law Center’s “Hoya Law for Change,” a group of over 200 law students who traveled to primary election states to educate, mobilize, and protect the rights of traditionally underrepresented voters. In 2004, Hunter served as a member of the Atlanta Regional Steering Committee of the National Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project.

Hunter received his B.A. degree in Sociology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he was a member of the varsity basketball team. He received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center after serving as its Student Bar Association President. He is an executive board member of the National Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and a strategic partner of IMPACT-DC. He is also a member of
The Florida Bar and American Bar Association; his admission to the District of Columbia Bar is pending.