Firm Overview
The Firm
R. Thompson & Associates, LLC was founded in 2009 by Rick Thompson, former head of the Georgia State Ethics Commission, and a veteran regulator in the states of Georgia and Missouri for almost two decades. In 2012, Jason Boles, a 16-year veteran business consultant, life coach and globally experienced marketing expert joined the firm. Together they have assembled an unmatched team.
R. Thompson & Associates, LLC began as an ethics and governmental compliance consulting firm offering services to corporations, associations, committees, lobbyists, and candidates. Specializing in campaign finance, Federal Election Commission (FEC) and state ethics reporting, as well as lobbyist reporting, R. Thompson & Associates, LLC offers unrivaled knowledge, experience and consultation on the intricacies of navigating the rules and reporting requirements of regulatory agencies overseeing political disclosures. Ethics and governmental compliance is the firm’s cornerstone.
Beginning in 2012, R. Thompson & Associates expanded its services and resources. R. Thompson & Associates now compliments its ethics and governmental compliance work with unparalleled campaign strategy and marketing. Campaign Strategy and Marketing Services dovetail proven excellence in compliance and insures candidates’ comprehensive, aligned representation.
The R. Thompson & Associates team driving campaign strategy and marketing has extensive experience in media across multiple platforms. It’s not just ‘strategy’. The unmatched team of consultants knows the ins and outs of cause marketing, call-to-action marketing and image/brand building from years of hands on experience. And, where many consultants stop, our team is just getting started. The work done once you are elected or appointed is as important as the work being done to get you there.
Rick Thompson
Rick Thompson has almost two decades of experience in overseeing ethics and governmental compliance as it relates to campaign finance, personal financial disclosure by candidates, and lobbying. Rick has been an active member in the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) since the 1990’s and is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a former member of the National White Collar Crime Center. In February 2010, Rick was nominated and accepted a position on the editorial board of Public Integrity, the foremost journal on ethics and leadership in all aspects of modern public service and a journal of the American Society for Public Administration.
Rick was instrumental in the development and implementation of an electronic campaign finance system in the state of Missouri, and more recently the development and execution of the nationally recognized campaign finance, personal financial and lobbyist electronic filing system in the state of Georgia.
Rick also serves as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Phoenix for courses including Ethics in Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Policy Analysis, Critical Incident Management, Legal Issues in Justice and Security, Principles of Investigation, Foundations of Criminal Justice, Marketing and Sales Message Management, Mass Communications, and Media and Society.
Jason D. Boles
Perhaps the most impactful attribute of Jason’s history is his entrepreneurial zeal. It’s an addiction that has built a diverse platform of knowledge and experiences. For more than 16-years Jason has been a business consultant primarily focused in advertising and marketing. Perhaps the uniqueness of his business model across the years speaks best to his qualifications: compensation based solely on the results driven.
From both sides of the table, the media’s and the business owner’s, Jason has developed strategies for image, for growth and for measured results around the globe. The insider’s advantage Jason possesses for marketing is built having consulted, managed and/or owned companies in broadcast, companies in publishing and companies developing social media and social marketing channels.
Across the past 6-years Jason diversified in to executive coaching and invested heavily into developing actionable plans for corporate executives as well as entrepreneurs. From the basics of setting a goal, to the complexities of developing an actionable plan, all with a measured accountability, Jason has thrived ‘behind the scenes’.
Outside RTA Jason and his wife, Carissa, lead a street ministry, Audacious Faith in Roswell, Georgia. Jason continues to diversify his interests via small business through a variety of partnerships and joint ventures. He is dad to Braedan and is a youth coach in the Roswell Recreational Department. Whilst Roswell is home, Jason served the past 12-years as a Trustee for his Alma matter Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.
