Paul H. DeLaney, III
Paul H. DeLaney, III is the Founder and Principal of Delphi Trias Group, an independent government relations, client advisory, and advocacy practice based in Washington, D.C. Over 25 years across five U.S. Administrations, Paul has directly shaped policy, designed and implemented company advocacy plans, and advocated for his company, his clients, and trade association members to consistently achieve significant and creative results. He has served in senior roles across government, corporate leadership, and private advisory practice.
In senior government service, Paul served as International Trade Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, advising Chairman and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch and Republican Finance Committee Senators on trade, investment, customs, and international tax policy. He earlier served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Bush Administration under Ambassadors Rob Portman and Susan Schwab, leading work across all aspects of USTR’s policy agenda and operations.
In corporate and trade association leadership, Paul most recently led the Washington office of SK Americas, representing a Fortune Global 500 South Korean conglomerate. He managed the team’s work on trade, supply chain, semiconductor, energy, AI, and manufacturing business policy priorities at all levels of federal and state government, while managing an extensive group of outside consultants, law firms, think tank relationships, and trade association memberships. He previously led the Business Roundtable’s trade and international work, managing a CEO-level committee chaired first by the CEO of Cummins and later by the CEO of Union Pacific, and working with three Business Roundtable CEO Chairs and their teams from J.P. Morgan, Walmart, and GM to advance BRT member trade, supply chain, and international priorities. Paul played a central advocacy role in the negotiation, enactment, and implementation of USMCA and the enactment of the CHIPS and Science Act. Earlier in his career, Paul led international trade policy advocacy in D.C. at FedEx Express and worked with USTR, Commerce, and other federal agencies as well as advocated for the company’s priorities with foreign governments, the WTO, APEC, ASEAN, and other international organizations.
In client advisory and advocacy work, Paul founded Delphi Trias Group as an independent advisory practice to support client’s trade, technology, supply chain, and international priorities. Previously, he was a partner at the Kyle House Group, where he advanced Fortune 500 client priorities across trade, technology, national security, investment, and regulatory issues. He worked with his brother, the Founding Partner of Kyle House Group, to build up the firm’s commercial practice. After law school, Paul worked as an associate in the white-collar litigation and government investigations practice at Vinson & Elkins, LLP in the Washington, D.C. office.
Paul holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University. He is admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia, serves as Treasurer and Board member of the Washington International Trade Association, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Indiana University Manufacturing Policy Initiative.
