Alex Castellanos

Alejandro Castellanos was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954 and immigrated to the United States in 1960 or 1961. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a National Merit Scholar and philosophy major. Since the 1980s, he has worked as a political consultant for Republican candidates in six presidential elections and numerous state and federal campaigns. He began his career working on Jesse Helms' 1984 re-election campaign and formed the firm Murphy & Castellanos with Mike Murphy. He became a partner at National Media Inc. in 1989.