Roshan Patel is a Partner at 50 State LLC, a Washington, DC-based state-focused strategic consulting firm that helps companies, trade associations, and non-profits achieve policy priorities at the state level.

Prior to this role, Roshan spent four years as the National Finance Director for the Democratic Governors Association. In this role, he was responsible for all of the organization’s fundraising activities and worked closely with DGA leadership and other Democratic governors throughout the country.

Roshan joined the DGA after spending 2009 and 2010 as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s Mid-Atlantic Finance Director under New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez. While at the DSCC, he managed the national Corporate Political Action Committee fundraising, as well as the individual donor fundraising activities in the Mid-Atlantic region. Prior to joining the DSCC, he worked on two successful US Senate campaigns and a presidential campaign. He served as New Mexico Senator Tom Udall’s Deputy National Finance Director and was an in-state fundraiser for Maryland Senator Ben Cardin. In 2007, Roshan was a Regional Finance Director for Governor Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign.

Roshan also serves as the Executive Director and Treasurer of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association, an organization founded in 2018. In this role, Roshan is in charge of all fundraising, political, and staffing activities while working with the 23 Democratic Lieutenant Governors from around the country.

After graduating Mississippi State University in 2002, with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance (cum laude), Roshan accepted a position with International Paper Company in Memphis, TN where he served as an international financial analyst in the Corporate Shared Services Division. In that capacity, Roshan was the lead analyst on a two-year, $17 million cost-cutting initiative. He worked closely with IP facilities domestically and also traveled extensively helping set up international operations. After two years in Memphis, Roshan moved to Dallas, TX to run a start-up company working with children with disabilities, mostly focusing on the low-vision community.