CROSS OAK'S PARTNERS

Helping business get done.

Our partners have spent decades creating strategies and shaping outcomes. We understand that our business is knowing the people that impact yours.

Cross Oak advises clients in a variety of sectors including aerospace, beverage alcohol, economic development, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare and public utilities.

CROSS OAK'S PARTNERS

Helping business get done.

Our partners have spent decades creating strategies and shaping outcomes. We understand that our business is knowing the people that impact yours.

Cross Oak advises clients in a variety of sectors including aerospace, beverage alcohol, economic development, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare and public utilities.

Mandeep Chatha-Homer

COUNSEL

Mandeep Chatha-Homer is a lobbyist, regulatory attorney and former legislative director with a broad and in-depth understanding of the legislative and regulatory process. Mandeep helps navigate, educate, and advocate on behalf of clients at the legislature as well as various state agencies.

Mandeep Chatha-Homer

COUNSEL

Mandeep Chatha-Homer is a regulatory attorney and former legislative director with a well-rounded understanding the nuances of the legislative and regulatory process. Mandeep helps navigate, educate, and advocate on behalf of clients at the legislature as well as various state agencies.

Jim Dow

MANAGING PARTNER

Jim co-founded Cross Oak Group in 2010 with Mark Homer. His focus revolves primarily around strategic communications, assisting clients with business development, and government affairs. He also does private business consulting on behalf of major corporations and private equity in aerospace, financial services, public pensions, and healthcare.

Jim Dow

MANAGING PARTNER

Jim co-founded Cross Oak Group in 2010 with Mark Homer, where he now acts as managing partner. Jim’s focus revolves primarily around strategic communications, assisting clients with business development, and government affairs. He also does private business consulting on behalf of major corporations and private equity in aerospace, financial services, public pensions, and healthcare.

Timothy A. Glassco

PARTNER

Tim Glassco has more than fourteen years of legal, policy and legislative advocacy experience. He has advised a range of clients on issues before state and federal government, as well as worked closely with government officials from host countries where U.S. companies operate.

Timothy A. Glassco

PARTNER

Tim Glassco has more than fourteen years of legal, policy and legislative advocacy experience. He has advised a range of clients on issues before state and federal government, as well as worked closely with government officials from host countries where U.S. companies operate.

Mark Homer

SENIOR ADVISOR

As co-founder at Cross Oak Group in 2010, and a partner, Mark has been involved in a diverse range of issues at the Texas Capitol, including outdoor and recreational entertainment, natural resources, beverage alcohol regulation, natural gas development, and the high tech industry. Mark also focuses a substantial portion on the firm’s business consulting practice.

Mark Homer

SENIOR ADVISOR

As co-founder at Cross Oak Group in 2010, and a partner, Mark has been involved in a diverse range of issues at the Texas Capitol, including outdoor and recreational entertainment, natural resources, beverage alcohol regulation, natural gas development, and the high tech industry. Mark also focuses a substantial portion on the firm’s business consulting practice.

Nelson Nease

PARTNER

Nelson Nease joined Cross Oak Group in 2014 while retaining his solo practice as an attorney, consultant and lobbyist. Prior to establishing his solo practice, Nelson was in private practice for thirteen years specializing in administrative proceedings, litigation, technical industry working groups, and legislative affairs on behalf of the firm’s energy-related clients.

Nelson Nease

PARTNER

Nelson Nease has been with Cross Oak Group since 2014. He retained Nelson H. Nease, P.C., his solo practice as an attorney, consultant and lobbyist founded in 2013. Prior to establishing his solo practice, Nelson was in private practice for thirteen years in the Austin office of a boutique Washington, D.C., law firm, specializing in administrative proceedings, litigation, technical industry working groups, and legislative affairs on behalf of the firm’s energy-related clients.

Tom Holloway

PARTNER

Tom Holloway joined Cross Oak Group in 2019 after more than a decade as a senior staff member in the Texas House and Senate – serving most recently as the Chief Clerk of the powerful House Calendars Committee. In that role, he assisted Chairman Four Price and Speaker Dennis Bonnen in setting the daily legislative agenda for consideration on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives.

Tom Holloway

PARTNER

Tom Holloway joined Cross Oak Group in 2019 after more than a decade as a senior staff member in the Texas House and Senate – serving most recently as the Chief Clerk of the powerful House Calendars Committee. In that role, he assisted Chairman Four Price and Speaker Dennis Bonnen in setting the daily legislative agenda for consideration on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives.