Cody M. Brown is President and CEO of CODIAS LLC, founded in 2011 to advance

the conservative movement in the United States by assisting conservative

candidates in the management of all aspects of their political campaigns.

Brown served as Iowa campaign manager for Rick Santorum's historic victory in

the 2012 Iowa caucuses and, during the 2010 midterms, Brown served as

campaign manager for Ben Lange, a conservative candidate for U.S. Congress in

Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.

Brown previously served as Senior Counsel & Chief of Legal Research at the

Project on National Security Reform in Washington DC where he partnered with

senior leaders at the National Counterterrorism Center, created in the aftermath of

9-11 to ‘connect the dots’, to improve the strategic operational planning for U.S.

counterterrorism missions worldwide.

Brown also co-chaired a flagship project to modernize the National Security Council

organization of the United States, consisting of the president’s closest White House

advisors.

As an attorney, Brown has staffed or advised members of both the U.S. House and

Senate. He served on the Senate Special Investigation into Hurricane Katrina as a

staff member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Committee. He also served as Legislative Counsel for a member of the House

Homeland Security Committee.

Brown earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern College, his Juris

Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law, and his Master of Laws from

Georgetown University Law Center where he studied constitutional issues and

national security law under top government officials.