Our Team
Eric Hogensen
President
Eric Hogensen is a Democratic political consultant with 20+ years of professional experience. Overseeing HOPE Campaigns, Eric is an advocate for bettering the nation’s democratic system and developing new means of opening campaigning to the masses in innovative and creative ways.
His uncanny ability to relate to people and empathy towards each politician’s unique situation serves as a catalyst to his straightforward relationship building. Tapping into his first-hand experience being on the ground as a campaigner helps him understand the stakes, while also allowing him to provide highly executed resources and tools for winning campaigns.
Eric’s proven track record speaks for itself, and his ability to grow HSG speaks to the value his expertise brings to any Democratic campaign at various levels of government. Allowing him to work with a candidate and their campaign staff is the missing link for a successful election, as Eric truly devotes himself to changing the world one vote at a time. His Latino roots play a unique role for candidates and campaigns, especially those who want to relate to and speak to diverse audiences.
Robert Berra
Healthcare Strategy Leader
Bob has over 30 years experience in directing and managing strategic growth and business development strategies for health services and health technology companies. He has been at the forefront of leading many game-changing initiatives throughout his career. He was active in the HMO movement working with the pioneering Southern California-based health plan, Health Net. Bob has also worked with the country’s largest managed Medicare provider, Humana and has led engagements with other national and regional health plans, such as PacifiCare (United); WellPoint/Anthem; Blue Shield of California, Cigna and Aetna.
As a founding partner of FischerHealth (now owned by Porter Novelli) his understanding of payors and reimbursement issues helped reshape the way in which medical devices and health information technology products and services were marketed and sold into the nation’s leading regional and national hospitals, health systems and health plans. His experience includes working in with manufacturers such as Thoratec (LVADs for heart failure); Heartware (LVADS for heart failure); Alere (heart failure); Medtronic (Diabetes and Neurological Disorders); Boston Scientific (aneurysm and drug-eluding stents), and many well-funded early stage companies serving the cardiology; pulmonology; oncology and neurology markets.
Bob earned his B.A. from The University of Northern Colorado.