MIBWest Partners

Straightforward professional services, steeped in strategy, with contacts at all levels of government.

The MIBWest Partners team is comprised of political veterans Steve Mecham, Eric Isom, Steve Barth, and Amy West, who combined have 80 years of experience in government and public policy arenas. MIB Partners is a full-service local strategic communications, lobbying and consulting firm emphasizing technology, telecommunications, energy, economic development, hospitality and government.

The MIBWest Partners office is located in The Crandall Building, 10 West 100 South, Suite 323, Salt Lake City, UT 84101.

MIBWest Partners was established as an equal partnership among Steve Mecham, Eric Isom and Steve Barth. Government relations services will be performed by all three partners taking advantage of decades of individual and collective experience working with and within state and local government.

Ideal clients for MIBWest seek straightforward professional services, steeped in strategy, with contacts at all levels of government.

Left to right: Steve Barth, Amy West, Eric Isom, and Steve Mecham

Qualifications and Experience

Political veterans Steve Mecham, Eric Isom and Steve Barth combined their more than 80 years of experience in government and public policy to launch MIB Partners, LLC, a strategic communications, lobbying and consulting firm. MIB is a full-service firm emphasizing technology, telecommunications, energy, economic development, hospitality and local government.

All members of the MIB Partners team have extensive experience with strategic consulting and lobbying before the Utah State Legislature, Utah Governor’s Office, state agencies, local governments and key community stakeholders.

Steve Mecham

Steve Mecham, an attorney, was chief of staff to Governor Norman H. Bangerter and executive director of the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. As a shareholder with Callister Nebeker & McCullough, Mecham’s practice focused on public utility, energy and telecommunications law, as well as local, state and federal regulation. Mecham regulated utilities on the Public Service Commission for 13 years—10 as chair. His extensive community service includes the Utah Food Bank Board, the Greater Avenues Community Council, Salt Lake City’s subcommittee on water rates and the LDS Hospital Citizens Advisory Board.

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Eric Isom

Eric Isom spent nearly 12 years in the communications industry, most recently as CenturyLink assistant vice president for Utah public policy, working at the local, state and federal government levels. His early career included posts with the State Senate and the Utah Public Employees Association. Isom’s community engagement includes the Governor’s Economic Development Coordinating Council; Salt Lake, Davis and Ogden/Weber Chamber Boards; Utah Business Coalition; Utah Taxpayers Association Board; Utah Broadband Advisory Council; Utah Education Network Advisory Council; and the Economic Development Corporation of Utah.

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Steve Barth

Since 2000, Steve Barth has led SB Strategies, providing government, public relations, lobbying and political consulting in the communication, local government, hospitality, health and non-profit arenas. A member of the Utah House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999, Barth concluded his service as Minority Whip. He also worked for the Salt Lake County Attorney’s Office and Public Works Department. A community service enthusiast, Barth has served with the Utah State Fair Board, Hogle Zoo Board, American Council of Young Political Leaders, Make a Wish Foundation, Utah Habitat for Humanity, Utah State History Board and as Ririe/Woodbury Board of Directors Chair.

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Amy West

For nearly six years, Amy West worked as associated general counsel for the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel drafting legislation for and providing legal counsel to Utah legislators. During her time at the Legislature, West primarily drafted bills and advised on issues in the Business and Labor area, which includes alcoholic beverage services, employment, financial institutions, and commerce, among other subjects. She also staffed for two years the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Task Force, which was created to help address the crisis of murdered and missing indigenous people in Utah, and the Administrative Rules Review Committee. Before her legal career, West worked in communications as a local news reporter and morning news anchor in Nebraska.

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