{"id":138093,"date":"2026-01-30T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:11:07","slug":"shumaker-advisors-selects-ed-montanari-to-grow-st-pete-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138093\/","title":{"rendered":"Shumaker Advisors selects Ed Montanari to grow St. Pete office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 30, 2026 &#8211; National public affairs and lobbying firm Shumaker Advisors has added former St. Petersburg City Councilmember Ed Montanari to its local team. Montanari, as a principal in the St. Petersburg office, will help strengthen the firm&#8217;s presence and connections in the city. He has 20 years of <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/longtime-public-servant-montanari-reflects-on-municipal-legacy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">municipal public service<\/a> experience and served on the council from 2016 through 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/catalyze-2023-usfsp-campus-governor-sean-schrader\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Schrader<\/a>, previously a district office manager for former U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, will serve as director of operations for the firm&#8217;s Tampa location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 30, 2026 &#8211; National public affairs and lobbying firm Shumaker Advisors has added former St. Petersburg City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-138093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}