Jake Giermann

As Manager of LNE Group's state practice in West Virginia, Jake helps clients navigate legislative, regulatory, and public-policy matters while building the relationships and strategies needed to advance their priorities.

Before joining LNE Group, Jake spent four years working in the Ohio House of Representatives, supporting seven legislators, including members of House leadership. His responsibilities ranged from constituent services and legislative drafting to budget amendments and policy research across energy, healthcare, education, economic development, tort reform, election law, and criminal and civil justice. That experience gave him firsthand insight into how policy moves through a legislature and how individual stories, stakeholder interests, and political considerations shape the process.

Jake has also worked extensively in political campaigns, with a particular focus on grassroots strategy, communications, and message development. His campaign experience includes helping engineer a successful 2024 West Virginia State Senate campaign that flipped a seat held by the opposing party for more than three decades. Those experiences continue to inform his approach to advocacy: understand the audience, find the story that matters, and build the coalition needed to move people to action.

Outside government and politics, Jake has worked in investment banking and logistics, gaining experience in financial markets, business development, customer relations, and growth strategy. That private-sector background helps him understand the commercial realities facing clients and gives him an additional lens when government, business, and market opportunity intersect.

Jake also serves as Head of U.S. Business Development for Catsnake: The Story Agency, where he supports the firm's expansion in the United States and works with mission-driven organizations to strengthen storytelling, audience engagement, and campaign strategy.