Sachin Chheda

Former Partner

Sachin Chheda was a partner at Nation Consulting and a communications, government relations, advocacy and nonprofit management professional. He left Nation Consulting in August, 2023. He is a frequently utilized source for political and business reporters, and was named a “Behind the Scenes Power Player by Gannett Media and one of the nation’s 500 top “Influencers” by Campaigns & Elections magazine.

Sachin worked primarily with corporate, labor, political, and nonprofit clients on strategic planning, management, messaging, and government & public relations. He formerly served as director of the Fair Elections Project, as campaigns advisor to the Economic Security Project, as a strategic communications advisor to the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, and as senior advisor to Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee.

Sachin also oversaw winning campaigns for WI Supreme Court Justices Rebecca Dallet and Jill Karofsky, WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly, and then-Superintendent Tony Evers, as well as dozens of local judges, aldermen, school board members and others. He previously served as a consultant to SEIU, as director of the Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition and Wisconsin Stem Cell Now, as deputy director for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and as Outreach Director for the film As Goes Janesville, among many other clients.

Prior to coming to Nation Consulting in 2006, Sachin spent five years as an aide to Governor Jim Doyle. He has more than 30 years of political and issue campaign experience in Wisconsin and Missouri, and has worked for Citizen Action of Wisconsin, then-Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor, among others.

Sachin is active in nonprofit leadership, having served two terms as Chair of the Board of Directors for NARAL Pro-Choice America. He currently serves as a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Board of Director, and as Wisconsin State Director for South Asians for America. He previously served as an officer of the Wisconsin Coalition of Asian Indian Organizations and is Chairman Emeritus of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County.

Sachin attended both the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UW-Madison, and currently lives with wife Angela and their four children on Milwaukee’s East Side.