Experienced Leadership Across Enforcement and Policy

Bringing together senior leaders from Capitol Hill, federal agencies, and enforcement to restore competitive opportunity across the American economy

‍ ‍Our Leadership

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Chris Jones - Managing Principal

Chris founded CMS after nine years at the National Grocers Association, where he served as Chief Government Relations Officer & Counsel. He has led major antitrust and competition initiatives and founded the Main Street Competition Coalition.

  • Chris Jones launched CMS after a 9-year stint at the National Grocers Association (NGA), where he served as Chief Government Relations Officer & Counsel. He built a strong record on antitrust and competition policy, including spearheading NGA's efforts to revive enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act, advocating against the consolidated market power of vertically integrated pharmacy benefit managers, driving efforts to inject competition into the payments system, and supporting the association's card network litigation. For nearly five years, Chris has led the Main Street Competition Coalition, uniting diverse industries around shared competition policy goals.

    As founder and managing principal, Chris leads the firm's advocacy, consulting, and enforcement strategies practices and drives the growth of its coalitions and associations portfolio.  Drawing on his extensive expertise in grocery, Chris is the firm’s go-to thought leader and strategist for retail businesses facing the problem of power buyers and concentrated markets. 

    Chris spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill as a Republican staffer, working for multiple Republican members of Congress while specializing in food and agriculture policy and earning his law degree at George Mason University’s night program. His deep roots in the Republican Party and his experience across every major policy venue – state legislatures, attorneys general offices, executive branch agencies, the White House, and Congress – give him the range to advance competition advocacy wherever the fight takes shape. His background in retail, healthcare, payments, and food and agriculture policy strengthens CMS's ability to serve a range of clients confronting market failures.

    Chris is a member of the South Carolina bar; his legal advice in the District of Columbia is exclusively on the federal antitrust laws in the relevant federal agencies.


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Andy Green - Principal

Andy Green joins the CMS ecosystem from nearly two decades in financial regulatory and fair competition policy and enforcement. During the Biden Administration, Andy served as the first Senior Advisor for Fair and Competitive Markets at the U.S.D.A.

  • Andy Green joins the CMS ecosystem from two decades in financial regulatory and fair competition policy and enforcement. During the Biden Administration, Andy served as the first Senior Advisor for Fair and Competitive Markets at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). There, he spearheaded the modernization of the Packers and Stockyards Act’s rules and enforcement program to promote fair and competitive markets in livestock, meat, and poultry, stood up USDA’s multipronged effort to promote fair competition in seeds, and developed a novel partnership with state attorneys general to enhance antitrust enforcement across food and agriculture. 

    Most recently, Andy was board counsel at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, assisting with the oversight of standards, inspections, enforcement, and international matters. A decade earlier, Andy served as commissioner’s counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, reviewing enforcement, rulemaking, and other matters before the Commission. Drawing on that experience, Andy leads CMS’s public policy and legal strategies for financial and commodity trading markets, housing, and economic development, contributes to the firm’s broader agricultural, trade, and other advocacy practices, and leads the firm’s economic research activities. 

    Andy began his career in Washington in 2009 as banking, trade, and tax counsel to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and later served as Staff Director of the Economic Policy Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. He participated in the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 and the JOBS Act of 2012.  He was the lead staff member for the passage of the prohibition on high-risk trades by banks, named after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker (one of the only structural separations enacted into law in recent decades), and of the provisions authorizing securities crowdfunding to help smaller businesses raise capital.  Andy also has extensive experience at senior levels of think tank leadership, having served as the Managing Director of Economic Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2015-2020. There, he helped oversee economic policy areas such as infrastructure, labor markets, tax, trade, and monetary policy. 

    Prior to coming to Washington, Andy practiced corporate securities law. He holds a J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly U.C. Hastings) and an A.M. and A.B. from Harvard. Andy is a member of the State Bar of California and the DC Bar.