John McCain was the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States in 2008. Rick Davis, his campaign manager, projected at one point that his staff would eventually increase to about 450. By early July 2008, it had opened 11 regional offices in key states and some 84 offices total across the country in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee. National leadership team Persons listed on the John McCain for President website: Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher – Chairman Frederic V. Malek – Finance Director Jill Hazelbaker – Spokeswoman Inner circle According to New York Times reporter John M. Broder: Steve Schmidt, head of campaign from July 2, 2008, veteran campaign manager Rick Davis, ran McCain's 2000 campaign Bill McInturff, chief pollster Mark Salter, McCain's Senate chief of staff John Weaver, chief political analyst (left campaign in 2007) Trevor Potter, chief counsel Others joining later or listed in other sources include: Charles R. Black, Jr., senior political adviser Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard The Bush team Wayne L. Berman, lobbyist and Bush fund-raiser Mark McKinnon, Bush's media consultant Terry Nelson, Bush's political director 2004 campaign Gerald L. Parsky, California chairman, Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns Nicolle Wallace, née Nicolle Devenish, White House communications director Ron Weiser, Ambassador to Slovakia and Bush fund-raiser Policy advisers Dan L. Crippen, director, Congressional Budget Office 1999–2003 Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director, Congressional Budget Office 2003–2005 Kevin Hassett, economist, American Enterprise Institute Lisa Graham Keegan, Arizona education official John Thain, CEO, Merrill Lynch Foreign policy advisers In October 2007, the Washington Post listed the following as McCain's foreign policy advisers. Randy Scheunemann, national security aide to then-Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott and now a lobbyist, defense and foreign policy coordinator (for this cycle and 2000)" Richard L. Armitage, "President George W. Bush’s deputy secretary of state and an international business consultant and lobbyist, informal foreign policy adviser"; [24] deputy to former secretary of state Colin Powell Bernard Aronson, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs; currently managing partner of private equity investment company ACON Investments William L. Ball III, Secretary of the Navy during President Reagan’s administration, and managing director of lobbying firm the Loeffler Group Stephen E. Biegun, Aspen Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Council of the Americas, former national security aide to then-Sen. Bill Frist, currently VP international affairs, Ford Motors Steven Bogden, speechwriter