Our Team
The CounterPoint Team
John Rowley
John Rowley is the founder of CounterPoint Messaging, a message, media and digital firm based in Nashville.
His first work was in radio and television in Burlington, Iowa. Since then, Rowley has worked on over 500 political campaigns for Democrats in 47 states – winning 91 percent of his campaigns. He has worked with candidates from President and governor to city council. Rowley has worked with 20 Members of Congress.
Rowley has provided political analysis on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, FOX Business, Fox News and NPR.
His firm has won 50 Pollie Awards for excellence in political advertising. His commercials have been featured on NPR, PBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His firm’s work has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
For corporate clients, Rowley handles branding, advertising, video production and crisis management.
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Kati Bumgardner
Kati Bumgardner currently serves as Vice President of Operations for CounterPoint Messaging where she acts as a media planner and buyer. Since 2008, Kati has managed over $70 million in media buys in 35 states and over 100 markets. When she isn’t personally placing buys, she also oversees a team of media buyers.
Kati is originally from Central Illinois. She attended Belmont University in Nashville where she majored in Political Science.
Kati lives in Murfreesboro with her husband, their daughter and their retired racing greyhound, Shooter, and cats, Thomas Paine and Bea Arthur.
Reggie Cardozo, Jr.
Reginald Cardozo Jr. specializes in the areas of advocacy, political campaigns, policy and research.
In 2018, his firm was hired by the Florida House Democratic Leader and tasked with developing and executing the strategy for the House Democratic Caucus, where the caucus experienced a record year flipping 7 districts from republican control to democratic control; and was even critically involved in the passing of a ballot initiative with more than 70% of the vote.
Over the past decade Reggie has been involved with candidate recruitment and running numerous successful campaigns and organizations at the local, legislative, and state levels. He served as the general consultant to elect the first African-American Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, Ken Welch; served as Deputy State Director for the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign in Florida; and worked on the Obama campaigns as well as served in numerous agencies and positions at the federal level.
Reggie enjoys being extremely active in the lives of his three beautiful children, spending time with his wife, Stephanie, and is also an avid equestrian and soccer fan.