Spiros Mantzavinos

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Spiros Mantzavinos has more than three decades of experience in offering clients strategic communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, economic development, reputation management, and issue & crisis management counsel.

In 2009, Spiros launched TMG Public Affairs, LLC, which offered a unique combination of communications and public affairs services designed to build and protect a client’s brand and reputation.

Before launching The Mantzavinos Group, he managed government and media relations for Christiana Care Health System, one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest academic healthcare providers. While there, he led the health system’s media relations team, working with Philadelphia and national media, writing web and intranet content, and managing its online newsroom. Coupled with his media duties, he lobbied the state government on behalf of Christiana Care and worked closely with Delaware’s Congressional Delegation.

Earlier in his career, Spiros served as the American Heart Association Advocacy Director in Philadelphia and Southeast Pennsylvania, where he was responsible for advancing the association’s public policy agenda; as External Affairs Manager for Motiva Enterprises’ Delaware City (DE) Refinery, managing the plant’s comprehensive public affairs program and playing a vital role in formulating government relations and communications strategies to manage multiple and evolving issues; and as Vice-President of Government Affairs for the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce, where he lobbied on behalf of the Chamber’s 1,700 members before County and State Government.

In 2020, Spiros was elected to the Delaware State Senate, where he represents the Seventh Senate District. He currently serves as chair of the Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee, vice chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and as a member of the Senate Elections & Government Affairs, Environment, Energy & Transportation, and Labor Committees. He also holds a seat on the Joint Capital Improvement Committee.

He earned an M.A. in political science from the University of Delaware, and holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Muhlenberg College.