BECKI DONATELLI

R. Rebecca “Becki” Donatelli was the president and founder of Campaign Solutions / Connell Donatelli and Right Country Lists. Celebrating 25 years in the digital space, Donatelli was the first person to write the software to raise political money on the internet. Virtually every online innovation for over twenty years has come out of her team at Campaign Solutions and Connell Donatelli. She sold her interest in the company in 2022.

As the chief internet consultant to John McCain’s two presidential races, she directed the online campaigns that brought the internet to the forefront of politics and public affairs. Donatelli and her team also managed the successful online fundraising efforts for Bush-Cheney ’04. She broke fundraising records in 2008 by raising 100 million dollars for McCain-Palin, the first for a Republican campaign. She has consulted to nearly all of the national GOP committees, and scores of Senate, House, and gubernatorial campaigns including the Republican National Conventions in 2004, 2008, and 2012. The 2012/14 cycles brought her focus to bear on advertising and social media in the new world of Super PACs and their impact on traditional political races. In 2016 Campaign Solutions worked with twelve of the sixteen Republican presidential campaigns. In 2020 and 2022 they posted record breaking numbers on behalf of US senate campaigns. Donatelli brings decades of political experience to Campaign Solutions beginning with her role as the youngest staffer of the Reagan 1976 campaign. The Non-Profit Times named her one of the top “12 most powerful women in direct response marketing.” She is the immediate past-president of the American Association of Political Consultants and currently Chairman of the AAPC Foundation. A graduate of the University of Southern California she currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.