Lisa Spies is the President of The LS Group, Inc., a political and non-profit fundraising and development firm. With over twenty-five years of experience raising national high-dollar and PAC contributions for campaigns and organizations, Lisa has been described as a “Super-Fundraiser” by Capitol File Magazine.
During the 2024 election cycle Lisa served as the Director of Donor Coalitions for the combined Donald J. Trump for President and Republican National Committee “Trump 47”
Campaign. She led the efforts with Jewish Leadership, Women, Veterans
and Farmers & Ranchers.
Lisa’s current clients include U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Congressman Byron Donalds, Congressman John James and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Past Clients include U.S. Senators John Thune, John Kennedy and David Vitter, Congressman Mike Pence, DeSantis for President, and Jeb Bush for President. Recent projects include the Humane Society Legislative Fund, RightNOW, and working with the Hudson Institute on their Gala dinner honoring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
During the 2012 Presidential campaign Lisa was the Director of Women for Romney where she led the effort to raise over $23 million from women across the country, and she also served as the Director of Jewish Outreach for the Romney for President campaign.
From 2008 until 2013, Lisa served as the Executive Director of the National Women's Committee - the Women's group of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Lisa currently serves on the Board of RightNOW PAC and she and her husband have sat on the Next Generation Board at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. She has previously served on Board of The Women’s campaign school at Yale University. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas as well as the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. She completed a United Leaders fellowship program at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and subsequently was a Fellow at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. She has taught at the RNC’s “Campaign Finance Schools,” to train a new generation of Republican fundraisers, and has lectured at the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University, American University’s Women and Politics Institute ‘We Lead,’ and the Dole Institute of Politics. In 2006 she was appointed to the “Presidential Rank Award Distinguished Review Board,” which recommended to President George W. Bush outstanding members of the Senior Executive Service for the government’s top commendation.
In her spare time Lisa is the Executive Director of the Miss DC Pageant, the Official State preliminary to the Miss America scholarship competition. She and her husband Charlie live with their cat Teddy in Washington, DC and Palm Beach, Florida.