Kristin Strohm is the managing partner at her own pubic relations firm, Starboard Group. Kristin Strohm has successfully solicited major funding from the oil and gas billionaire Koch Brothers. While Strohm was the finance director for Mike Coffman's congressional campaign, Coffman benefited from ads run by Americans for Prosperity supporting his campaign. Through Strohm, he also received the maximum possible donation allowed by law from David Koch. Starboard Group's website boasts of working for the Koch Brothers' flagship front group, Americans for Prosperity. Strohm has also hired former Koch Interns to the Starboard Group. A former director of the Common Sense Policy Roundtable, a front group created by Strohm, attended the secretive 2010 Koch strategy meeting in Aspen.