Dear Fellow Minnesota Republicans,

Four weeks into the new leadership term at the State Party, and we are moving a mile a minute to set our organization up for short and long-term success. 

As I stated throughout my campaign and now as the new chair, the main priorities for our party include growing our fundraising revenues, eliminating our debt, and building towards success to turn Minnesota red in 2018. 

Of these priorities, we are realigning roles and responsibilities to ensure a strong fundraising organizational structure. I am excited to share this new structure with you today. 

I am pleased to announce and welcome Jennifer Larson as our new Finance Chair. As a business owner, entrepreneur and CEO, Jennifer brings with her a depth and breadth of leadership experience on a state and national level that will help elevate our party's fundraising efforts.  Jennifer currently serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Vibrant Technologies and founded the Holland Autism Center in 2004.  Additionally she is involved in several philanthropic activities around Autism.

In her role as Finance Chair, Jennifer will be responsible for leading strategic fundraising efforts across key donor levels to open up new sources of contributions to ensure a successful and strong state party.   

Please also join me in welcoming Adam Gilbertson.  Adam currently serves at the Deputy Chair for the Minnesota 2nd Congressional District Republican Party.  He was also a national delegate to the 2016 RNC in Cleveland and is a veteran of the Iraq war serving for nine-years in the US Army.  Adam currently works as a General Manager for a large John Deere dealer network focused on machine guidance technology and the integration of drone technology in construction.   He is a resident of Lakeville with his wife Sarah and their 6 year old son Henry.

In his new role as Deputy Finance Chair, Adam will be responsible for supporting the strategic fundraising efforts of the state party and opening up new sources of contributions to ensure a strong and successful party.

With the addition of Jennifer and Adam to the fundraising leadership team, our party is on the way to tremendous success!

I would also like to take this moment to acknowledge the importance of the roles of our National Committeeman and National Committeewoman.  Both Rick Rice and Janet Beihoffer are critical players to our fundraising leadership structure.  Their positions will elevate to focus primarily around building national connections within the RNC network and support fundraising efforts within the state of Minnesota across all donor levels.  With both Rick and Janet's professional and political experience, we have a strong well-rounded team to build to success in 2018 and beyond!

We are very excited about our new structure and collaborative team spirit. As you will notice, all of our elected leaders have a role and responsibility in raising money for our party.  We will be working hard every day for our party and look forward to continuing to collaborate with all of you as we move forward. 

Thank you and have a wonderful week!

Sincerely,