Todd Womack is the president and CEO of Bridge Public Affairs and former chief of staff and staff director for U.S. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is Corker’s longest serving aide and remains a principal advisor.

Womack’s focus as Bridge president and CEO is helping clients navigate the nexus of policy, politics and strategy in successfully achieving their state, national and international business objectives.

He was closely involved in helping Corker develop a wide range of domestic and foreign policy legislation related to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security reform; tax reform; financial regulatory reform; housing finance reform; sanctions on Iran, Russia and North Korea; Ukraine stabilization following Russia’s invasion; food aid reform; and efforts to modernize and reform how the U.S. makes global and nation-specific strategic and developmental investments. Womack gained first-hand insight about world hotspots and other facets of U.S foreign policy, having accompanied Corker, other U.S. senators, and diplomatic officials on dozens of investigative trips throughout the world.

Additionally, he helped develop and lead Corker’s effort to establish the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery – a public-private global effort led by the United States to help free the more than 27 million currently enslaved around the world. In Tennessee, Womack was involved in multiple economic development initiatives benefiting communities across the state and integrally involved in the successful recruitment of Volkswagen’s North American Manufacturing operation to Chattanooga.

On Capitol Hill, Womack served as the Republican chair of the bipartisan chief of staff organization, focused on creating dialogue and interaction between the 100 Senate chiefs of staff. He previously led the bipartisan chiefs of staff study group in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations and also led the Faith and Politics Institute’s bipartisan chiefs of staff study group.

From 2001-2005, Womack served under then-Mayor Bob Corker as communications director for the City of Chattanooga. Womack assisted Corker in attracting $2.1 billion of new investment to Chattanooga, transforming the city’s waterfront and improving local school and law enforcement effectiveness. Many of the efforts then launched continue to distinguish Chattanooga today.

Womack is the chair of the Hamilton County Schools Foundation and a Governor-appointed member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Womack is also an active member of the Executive Committee of the University of Chattanooga Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Benwood Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Hunter Museum, the Board of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, and the Chattanooga Downtown Rotary Club. He is a Visiting Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute at the Antonin Scalia Law School.

A native of Chattanooga, Todd graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He and his wife Katie have four children, Laura Kate, Rebekah, John and Andrew.