CHICAGO, IL, April 09, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Honorable Michael C. Fountain has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Mr. Fountain is a distinguished professional with vast experience representing clients across the spectrum of business enterprise in the State of Illinois. The former vice-president of legislative affairs for ComEd, an Exelon subsidiary and Illinois' largest electric utility, has managed legislative and policy agendas for concerns in the energy, telecommunications, regulatory, transportation, tourism and convention industries. He has successfully lobbied legislative packages totaling in excess of three billion dollars over the last two decades.

In addition to his work at ComEd, Mr. Fountain also represented the Quaker Oats Company, AT&T Illinois, McCormick Place and Navy Pier in various external affairs and government relations capacities over the last twenty years. In the public sector, he represented the Chicago Transit Authority and served the State of Illinois as director of consumer services for the Illinois Commerce Commission.

As a diplomat, Mr. Fountain was accredited by the U.S. State Department as the first Bahamas honorary consul to Chicago for the Midwestern United States, March 6th, 2014. His jurisdiction includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The establishment of this historic post makes Mr. Fountain the first diplomatic representative of The Bahamas in Chicago, the second Bahamas honorary consul ever assigned to the U.S. and the longest serving diplomatic representative of The Bahamas in the United States of America. As such, Consul Fountain works to protect the interests of Bahamian nationals in the U.S., in addition to engaging interested parties in the specific matters of tourism, investment, trade, economic development, culture, science, agriculture, public safety, and the import and export of goods and services within his jurisdiction.

Mr. Fountain is now leveraging his earned political and diplomatic credibility and record of public and private sector accomplishments as principal at Capitol F Consulting, LLC. His specific relationships provide clients interested in international representation direct access to his diplomatic contemporaries not only in the CARICOM (Caribbean community) member and associate states, but also expedited diplomatic access to leadership in countries throughout the world.

Mr. Fountain is a member of the Chicago Consular Corps, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Black Professionals in International Affairs, the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago, Foreign Policy for America and the Consular Corps College, the Washington, D.C.-based association of foreign consuls in the United States of America.

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