Losner

By Jesse Scheckner

ForBecker & Poliakoff government relations specialist Max Losner, politics isn’t just a passion; it’s part of his DNA.

A fifth-generation Floridian, Losner grew up in Homestead, Miami-Dade County’s second-oldest city.

It’s where his great-great grandfather, his namesake, and grandfather’s great uncle served as City Councilmen. Today, it’s where his father is seeking a third mayoral term. But his original aim wasn’t politics. Losner attended a medical magnet high school and spent years volunteering at Homestead Hospital. Health care fascinated him, and he decided to seek a degree in health service administration, albeit with a minor in political science, at the University of Central Florida.

While there, he got word of the school’s legislative internship program. He applied, and before he knew it, he was in Tallahassee working for Rep. David Smith and former Rep. Scott Plakon.

“I got firsthand experience in state government and realized I wanted my career to be in the world of government,” he said.

Losner finished the internship and returned to school in March 2020, with an earnest zest for politics. He landed Campaign Manager jobs for two Republicans running for office in Monroe County, Cheryl Meads and Rhonda Rebman Lopez, the latter of whom narrowly lost to now-Rep. Jim Mooney.

From there, his stock skyrocketed. In December 2020, the same month he graduated from college, Losner won a race for Florida GOP Secretary. He then reached out to Becker lobbyists Alex Alamo and José Feuntes, whom he’d met while working at the Capitol, to see if they wanted an extra hand during Session. They did.

“I was their boots on the ground during the ‘COVID Session,’ in the office acting as an administrator, helping service clients, attending meetings, track- ing bills and so on,” he said.

He stuck with them after, traveling back to Miami-Dade to work from the firm’s Coral Gables office. When Alamo departed in mid-2021, Losner succeeded him.

Since then, he’s helped to attract billions of dollars in funding to local governments and nonprofits the firm represents while successfully advocating for policies benefitting top-tier clients, including Miami-Dade, Miami, CVS, Aetna, Motorola, Siemens Corp. and a passel of engineering firms.

Last year, former Miami-Dade Commission Chair Jose “Pepe” Diaz appointed Losner to the county’s Planning Ad- visory Board, a panel that counsels the County Commission on annexation and incorporations. The board elected him Chair this past December.

Asked where he sees his career going from here, Losner said he feels like doing his current job forever, but he admitted to aspirations akin to those of his paternal forebears.

“I love my work now, but I certainly want to find time to go to law school and expand the scope of what I can do in the practice,” he said. “I want to keep climbing the ladder here, working on impactful legislation. And who knows? Maybe I’ll follow in my father’s footsteps and run for local office.”