IPA’s Chief Operating Officer(COO), Marti Luparello, is focused on strategy, communications, and will continue her “boots on the ground” advocacy efforts on behalf of clients. Marti established her role in the public policy world working in various roles including with former Senator/Agriculture commissioner Todd Staples at the Texas Department of Agriculture and as a key component of his political team on his statewide office’s campaign. She then went inside the Capitol where she worked in the Senate office of former Chairman and now Comptroller of Public Accounts, the Honorable Glenn Hegar.
After gaining valuable experience in her state government roles, Marti has flourished in the private sector, most recently as the Director of Government Relations and Compliance for Texas Farm Bureau Insurance companies for the last four legislative sessions. In this role she represented a large P&C insurance company in front of executive, legislative and regulatory policymakers to ensure they were influential in the public policy process.
Marti has returned to IPA where she began her career in public affairs consulting from 2011 to 2014, to serve as COO and coordinate the efforts of the growing team of public affairs professionals. She was raised in Alpine, Texas, and received her B.S. from Texas A&M University. Marti enjoys serving her community and is proud to be a Texas Advisory Council member of NCMEC, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She and her husband Anthony are the proud parents of two wild, young boys.