Max founded At Scale in 2018 after working in national politics for 14 years. Coming up in Field (read: “organizing”), he managed his first paid canvass program in 2005 as the Field Director for two Assembly candidates in New Jersey and in 2010 managed his first Congressional campaign for his longtime boss, Former Congressman Chris Carney (PA-10). In 2012, he went on to manage the primary campaign of Former Congressman John Delaney (MD-6) who won a 5-way race with over 50% of the vote. While managing his first firm, Kirby Campaigns, Max became the Iowa Operations Director for NextGen Climate Action Committee for the 2014 election cycle where he oversaw the budgeting, spending and logistics of a $11 million dollar program. 

 

In 2015, he closed Kirby Campaigns to join Paul Tewes and Julianna Smoot’s firm, Smoot Tewes Group, as their Chief Operating Officer. At STG, he managed the consulting firms business as well as overseeing the administrative duties of multiple clients. From 2016-2017, he took on a second position as the National Operations Director of For Our Future PAC/Action Fund where he oversaw the Human Resources, Legal, Operations, Accounting and Compliance departments and managed a $55 million dollar budget. 

 

Since forming At Scale, Max also served in the positions of Chief Administrative Officer for Beto O’Rourke’s Presidential campaign and in the same role for national independent expenditure, Organizing Together 2020. A Vermont and Connecticut native, Max is a graduate of American University with a Bachelors in Political Science and minor in Economics.