Management Bios:

Victor A. Gresham
Vic Gresham is a founding partner of Conquest Communications Group. Gresham also serves as president of Bold Stroke Associates, a full-service strategic consulting, message development and management firm.

Few, if any, other tele-contact experts have the experience and successful track record of Vic Gresham in American politics, on either side of the aisle. For almost a quarter century, Gresham has been an innovator and leader in putting technological advances to work for Republican and conservative causes. Gresham has consulted or managed numerous statewide campaigns, and is widely viewed as an expert in convention floor management and intra-party campaigning.

In the early years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Gresham served as Political Director for the National Conservative Political Action Committee, NCPAC. In 1984 Gresham left NCPAC to work on President Reagan’s reelection effort, where he planned and managed voter registration and ID/GOTV programs. Under his management of these programs, more than 50,000 new voters were registered and more than 600,000 Virginians were contacted for the purposes of determining their preference in the presidential election. Soon after the presidential campaign, Gresham was named Vice President of Bryant Seaman Voter Communications.

In 1989 Vic opened his own voter contact firm. Utilizing bar-code technology, Gresham developed the first rapid data entry system for information gathered via voter identification calls. Gresham’s ability to put usable data in the hands of campaigns less than 24 hours after the data was collected brought his firm to the attention of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s political division, and he was contracted to handle voter identification and turnout for four special Congressional elections soon after his company opened its doors.

In 1997, Gresham founded Conquest Communications Group. Before the end of the 1998 election cycle, Conquest was recognized throughout national Republican circles as a nationwide leader in tele-contact services.

Gresham is a frequent lecturer on the topics of political strategy and direct voter contact. His Campaigns & Elections magazine analysis of the 1998 elections entitled, “Why Conservatives Didn’t Turn Out,” has been incorporated into the book, “The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics.” Gresham, who resides in Henrico County, Virginia, has three children.

Winfree W. Chewning, Jr.
Win Chewning, Senior Vice President, has been with Conquest since its founding. In addition to being the primary contact for Conquest’s private sector clients, Chewning oversees the Call Center Operations staff. He has directed the design and deployment of all four of Conquest’s unique direct contact center setups.

Chewning has extensive experience designing and implementing fundraising programs for all levels of organizations, and has spoken at fundraising and tele-contact seminars across the country. Chewning also takes the lead at Conquest in preparing collected data for analysis, and he has extensive training in the SPSS statistical analysis software package.

Prior to joining Conquest, Chewning was a small businessman who served as president of his area’s retail merchants’ association, and developed marketing strategies for the local business community. He also served for a number of years in management for Richmond-based Best Products, Inc.

Chewning holds a B.A. in psychology from The University of Virginia, and has been published twice on the subject. He is a member of the National Association of Republican Campaign Professionals. Chewning, his wife Susan and their two children are active members of the West End Assembly of God.