Alexia Poe is the founder of Poe Consulting, LLC and has provided strategic counsel to clients in the private, public and non-profit sectors for more than a decade.

She started her own business in 2015 after serving as a member of the Governor’s Cabinet in the top communications post for the Administration of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. Prior to her appointment by Haslam, Poe was Director of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s Office of Economic and Community Development, where she served as the city’s top sales executive to attract and grow business investment in Davidson County.

On the federal level, she worked for First Lady Laura Bush and then moved from the East Wing of the White House to Capitol Hill, where she built the communications office of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander from the ground up.

Before heading to Washington, Poe worked for Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist.  She was the second female and youngest person in the State’s history to serve as a Governor’s Press Secretary.

In addition to 30-plus years of communications, media, government and consulting experience, she has also worked in the private sector serving as Director of Public Affairs at the Nashville-based hospitality and entertainment company Gaylord Entertainment (now Ryman Hospitality Properties), where she managed the company’s government relations function in six states, its Political Action Committee and philanthropic foundation.

Poe began her career as a television reporter and morning anchor in Northeast Tennessee.

A Knoxville native and honors graduate of the University of Tennessee, she is a recipient of the College of Communication and Information’s Distinguished Alumni Award.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and Friends of Warner Parks. She is a gubernatorial appointee to the Tennessee Arts Commission and has served two terms as a gubernatorial appointee to the University of Tennessee Knoxville Chancellor’s Advisory Board.

She and her husband, Charley, have two children and live in Nashville.