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Cody Hill, a name familiar to many in North Carolina’s government affairs community, joins the State Affairs team today to help manage sales and strategic partnerships in North Carolina and the Southeast. For the past four years, Hill worked as head of partnerships at UpState, a North Carolina legislative tracking service based in Durham. He previously worked for Amazon and as a product operations leader for Facebook in San Francisco. Hill grew up just outside of Washington, D.C., in northern Virginia. He studied public policy and Spanish at The College of William & Mary and earned a Master of Business Administration at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“We’re thrilled to have Cody join the team, bringing best-in-class legislative news and information to North Carolina and beyond,” said Scott Miller, vice president of State Affairs Pro. “State Affairs and NC Insider are on the verge of deploying new resources to serve the needs of legislative professionals, policy leaders, elected officials and others who know how impactful the operations of state government are.”
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