President Lori and sponsor David Willms welcomed new member Jason Begger to the club last week.
Jason is the founder and owner of Armature Advocacy. He was raised on a family ranch in eastern Montana and after graduating from college, he moved to Washington, DC, working for the late U.S Senator Conrad Burns and U.S. Representative Denny Rehberg. In Washington, he staffed the House Agriculture Committee and later the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, focusing on water projects and energy funding.
In 2006, a position with the Petroleum Association of Wyoming brought Jason to Casper, before becoming the Manager of Government affairs for Rio Tinto Energy America, which later became Cloud Peak Energy. From 2015 to 2020, he served on the cabinets of Governors Mead and Gordon as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority and from 2015 to 2023, he was the Managing Director of the Wyoming Integrated Test Center.
In 2020 Jason founded Armature Advocacy, a public affairs and project development firm focusing primarily on government and public affairs support for the energy and natural resource sectors.
Jason has a BA in History from Montana State University – Billings and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Denver. Jason, his wife Kristin, and two young daughters live just outside of Cheyenne.
