Trump’s ‘Mad Men’ are also medical device execs

Holzer (l) and Adkins

The “Mad Men” behind the Draper Sterling firm that got $35,000 from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign are reportedly also the co-founders of medical device company XenoTherapeutics.

Campaign finance documents released this week showed that the Trump campaign paid $35,000 to Londonderry, N.H.-based Draper Sterling; the name is a play on the names of 2 characters on the popular Mad Men television program. Paul Holzer and Jonathan Adkins, the duo media outlets linked with Draper Sterling, are also behind Boston-based XenoTherapeutics; Trump’s campaign also paid $3,000 each to Holzer and Adkins, apart from the payment to Draper Sterling.

The company is a non-profit firm that’s developing an artificial skin graft for burn victims, using genetically modified pigs, according to its website. Holzer and Adkins are also involved in Republican political circles, according to news reports.

The pair picked the Draper Sterling name “to be funny. We were a small start-up and wanted to get some attention,” Holzer told CNN yesterday, explaining that the firm is a data analytics company that generates voter profiles and statistics for political candidates, but also works for hospitals and medical delivery services.

“When the dust settles, people are going to be real disappointed to find out how boring this story really is,” Holzer said.

Adkins and Holzer, a former Navy SEAL, are also reportedly linked to Patriots for America, an independent expenditure committee that backs Republican candidates, according to Buzzfeed, ThinkProgress and Gawker.

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