Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Flo Kahn

55. Flo Kahn

Floreine “Flo” Kahn is the 
Sacramento point person for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, otherwise known as PhRMA. She leads the organization’s massive lobbying operations, which employs six lobbying firms (Fernandez Jensen Kimmelshue Government Affairs, the Apex Group, Capitol Strategies Group, Inc., Heyworth Government Affairs, Noteware Government Relations and Gladfelty Government Relations) and has spent more than $1.5 million through the first five quarters of the two-year legislative cycle. Kahn knows the pharmaceutical business, having previously handled state government affairs in the West for AbbVie and, before that, working for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Bristol-Myers Squibb. She also was deputy chief of staff to Kevin McCarthy when he was the Assembly Republican Leader. She is a political science grad from UC Berkeley.

Updated Aug. 7, 2024