Professional and Business Activities
Payne is the president of the consulting firm Payne Consulting, which he founded in 1996; president of Worldwide Strategic Partners (an international relations, international business development, and energy development firm); president of Worldwide Strategic Energy (a sister company to Worldwide Strategic Partners, which has a subsidiary called Caspian Alliance Inc.); co-founder of Alliance & Co. (an international investment advisory and asset management firm), founder and managing partner of the investment firm Envion Worldwide, and Strategic Limited Partner for the global investment firm MSH Ventures.
Payne's clients have included JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, United Space Alliance, SAP Software, Nextel Communications, Continental Airlines, Yukos Oil, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Nuclear Solutions, Inc. Payne also represented Itera, one of Russia's largest independent natural gas producers.
In 2001, Payne served as Senior Advisor to the NASA Administrator on White House and Congressional Affairs.
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