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Altesa BioSciences Closes Oversubscribed $75 Million Series B Financing to Transform Treatment of Chronic Lung Disease

Altesa BioSciences Closes Oversubscribed $75 Million Series B Financing to Transform Treatment of Chronic Lung Disease

by Gordon Hensley | Feb 19, 2026 | Business, health care, Pharmaceutical | 0 comments

Congratulations to the team at Altesa BioSciences and CEO Dr. Brett Giroir for their collective success achieving an oversubscribed $75 million Series B round of financing as the Atlanta-based biotech continues its mission to transform the treatment of COPD, asthma...
Political Campaign Skills Don’t Automatically Translate to K Street Expertise

Political Campaign Skills Don’t Automatically Translate to K Street Expertise

by Gordon Hensley | Feb 10, 2026 | advocacy, Business, Communications, health care, lobbying, Media Relations | 0 comments

I didn’t see firsthand how the K Street lobbying scene worked until the tail-end of my 30s and a little voice in my head said it was time to become an adult — or at least more of an adult. I was having the time of my life going through a revolving door I...
Don’t Give Up on Op-Ed’s — Just Shift Your Focus

Don’t Give Up on Op-Ed’s — Just Shift Your Focus

by Gordon Hensley | Jun 9, 2025 | advocacy, Business, Communications, lobbying, Media Relations, state government, U.S. House, U.S. Senate | 0 comments

From PR Week and PR Daily to Gotham Ghostwriters and Axios the demise of op-eds as a content-sharing vehicle is a discussion worth having. And per usual, those proclaiming simply “Yes” and “No” are wrong. The real answer is “No —...
Wolves of K Street — A Look at Washington’s 3 Lobbying Dynasties

Wolves of K Street — A Look at Washington’s 3 Lobbying Dynasties

by Gordon Hensley | May 10, 2024 | advocacy, Business, Communications, GOP Politics, lobbying, U.S. House, U.S. Senate | 0 comments

It’s been almost 40 years since then-Wall Street Journal stars Jeff Birnbaum and Alan Murray wrote their seminal 1987 masterpiece Showdown at Gucci Gulch detailing passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 — the single most sweeping U.S. tax...
The ONLY Way to Conduct Conference Calls

The ONLY Way to Conduct Conference Calls

by Gordon Hensley | Jun 28, 2023 | Business, Management | 0 comments

Client conference calls — whether video or audio — are a fact of life. But there are several things I dislike and, in my opinion, reflect very poorly on the group leader. Let’s start here: 1 — 60 minute calls. If the collective group cannot...
Enough With Zoom Calls

Enough With Zoom Calls

by Gordon Hensley | Aug 11, 2021 | Business, Communications, Management | 0 comments

First things first: Zoom calls are great — with amazing utility and usefulness. As a means of bringing teams together virtually as COVID continues to hinder in-office meetings, Zoom is the most revolutionary technological tool to be developed and widely embraced...
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