Jack London Historian

Darius Anderson is the Founder and Chairman of Platinum Advisors, a full-service government affairs firm that ranks in the top five, in terms of revenues, of California government advocacy companies. With offices in Sacramento, Orange County and San Francisco, as well as Washington, DC, Platinum Advisors provides lobbying, strategic advice, government relations, project development, procurement, public affairs and strategic consulting to local and regional governments and agencies, trade associations, corporations, entrepreneurs, and non-profit groups. Mr. Anderson founded the firm in 1998.

He is the Founder and CEO of Kenwood Investments, a California Opportunity Fund seeking new ventures to build upon the unique brand of California. Darius is a talented political strategist who also understands the hard-charging working dynamics of big business and big government. Philanthropy is important to Darius, and he is involved in a variety of charitable activities. He is the Chair of the National Advisory Council at the Institute of Governmental Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is a passionate art collector and owns world-class collections of both baseball and Jack London memorabilia. Darius Anderson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Darius is also Founder and Managing Member of Sonoma Media Investments, LLC, the owner and publisher of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and the Sonoma Index-Tribune. The Press Democrat won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its fire coverage.

He is a passionate art collector and owns world-class collections of both baseball and Jack London memorabilia. Darius Anderson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and currently lives in Sonoma.