A Kentucky prime, and a compensation practice built for this.

Founder & Managing Director, House Strategies Group — Project Director & single point of accountability to the Commission

Founder of House Strategies Group with 17+ years of federal and public-sector consulting. As the prime’s Project Director, Jelani owns scope, schedule, cost, the master project plan, and the relationship with the Commission. He pioneered HSG’s AI-Enhanced Delivery methodology and the AI/Expert Reconciliation Log now standard on HSG compensation and classification studies. MS Finance, Georgetown; BA Economics & English, University of Virginia.

Managing Partner, Riley McGuire Partners — Kentucky Coordination · U.S. Army veteran · Kentucky-barred attorney

Managing partner and co-founder of RMP and a licensed attorney in Kentucky, D.C., and Maine who served at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Board of Veterans’ Appeals. As the Kentucky subcontractor lead, Neil provides in-state stakeholder coordination, on-the-ground logistics with the courts and the legislature, and veteran-owned participation — anchoring the engagement in the Commonwealth while HSG leads the analytical work.

Certified Job Evaluator (CJE) — Job-Architecture & Internal-Equity Lead (Objectives 2 & 4)

A Certified Job Evaluator with 25+ years of senior HR leadership in the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service, where she ran classification and position-management programs for missions of 2,000+ staff. On this study she is the hands-on classification authority — the signatory on every job evaluation, occupation crosswalk, and grade-band determination, and the owner of the internal-equity findings. Her past-performance reviews on HSG comp & class studies rate her Exceptional across every category.

Senior Compensation Analyst — Market Benchmarking Lead (Objective 3)

Senior compensation analyst with 10+ years running compensation programs at Fortune-100 employers (Verizon, Lowe’s), including annual compensation reviews across multi-site networks. She owns the market benchmarking — survey selection and blending, aging to a common date, and the percentile, market-index, and compa-ratio analysis that produces every pay range. MS Human Resource Management.

Senior Consultant — Data Operations & Crosswalk Methodology (Objectives 3 & 5)

Booth MBA and 15+ years leading structured data discovery and analytical delivery in regulated environments. He owns the data-operations workflow — normalizing survey files into a common schema, the confidence-scored job-match crosswalk, and the reproducibility controls behind every published figure and the cost model.