Tazeen Ahmad, CFO

Tazeen Ahmad is the Chief Financial Officer at Capitol Hill Consulting Group. In this role, Ms. Ahmad manages the firm’s financial strategy, financial planning and analysis, financial reports, company audits, compliance, and bank relationships. She is also responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local campaign finance and election laws for the firm.

Ms. Ahmad has been a lifelong advocate of issues of importance to women and over the years has worked in leadership positions with many nonprofit organizations that serve women and children.

A Potomac, Maryland resident, Ms. Ahmad maintains close ties to the Maryland community and is actively involved in Maryland politics. She is the president of the Montgomery County Women’s Democratic Club, WDC, one of Maryland’s largest and most active Democratic Clubs with hundreds of politically active members, including many elected officials. WDC works to educate all voters on local, state, and national issues of importance to Democrats, with a special focus on issues that disproportionately affect women and their families. Ms. Ahmad is one of the founding members of the Maryland Equal Rights Action Network, MERAN, which coordinated ERA advocacy efforts across the state. MERAN successfully helped introduce and usher an ERA Resolution through the Maryland General Assembly in the 2024 session.

In addition to her political work, Ms. Ahmad co-founded Up 2 Us Foundation, a Maryland nonprofit addressing food insecurity in Maryland and Washington, DC during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, the organization is helping to upskill individuals left out of economic mobility by providing scholarships in healthcare and IT, with a particular focus on supporting women of color. Ms. Ahmad also serves on the Board of Directors at Interfaith Works, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides emergency shelter, supportive housing, essential needs, and employment programs to over 35,000 Montgomery County, MD residents each year.

Ms. Ahmad served as a Commissioner on the Montgomery County Commission for Women from 2018 to 2021. While at the CFW, she co-chaired the 2020 Women’s Legislative Briefing and was on the Policy and Legislation Committee. Before her time on the Commission, she was on Montgomery County’s Victims Services Advisory Board and served as the board chair during her term there. Her time on VSAB gave her a deeper understanding not only of issues faced by victims of crime and their families but also policies that impact the criminal justice system and our community at-large with a specific focus on domestic violence and sexual assault. Ms. Ahmad has a B.A. from Alfred University in political science and a Master’s in Journalism from the University of Maryland. She lives with her family in Potomac, Maryland.