Timothy M. Haake Founder and Principal Mr. Haake is a legislative consultant and lawyer and the owner of Haake & Associates.  His areas of expertise include tax, energy, finance, health care, trade, and defense. He held several administrative, legal, and Congressional positions prior to starting his own firm. At the Internal Revenue Service, he served in a professional legal capacity where he drafted private rulings, issued advisory opinions to field offices, and drafted broadly applicable rulings. For the next five years, Mr. Haake served as Counsel to members of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, advising Members of Congress on all issues coming before the Committees, including matters of tax, trade, and health policy.  He assisted in formulating legislative initiatives and guiding them through the legislative process to enactment.  He was later head of the tax department in the Washington, D.C. office of O'Connor & Hannan. Additionally, over the past several decades, Mr. Haake has gained a wealth of international relations experience through his civilian and military duties. He participated in the Harvard University Executive Program for General Officers of the Russian Federation and the United States.