[3] He received a BA from Rhode Island College and obtained a paralegal certification from Northeastern University.

[1] In November 2016, Sifakis was named to the Department of Commerce "landing team" as part of the transition process for President Donald Trump.

Sifakis joined the Administration as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Public Liaison on January 23, 2017, and was subsequently appointed Assistant to the President and later Director of the Office of Public Liaison on March 6, 2017,[5] one of approximately 20 senior White House staff directly reporting to the White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus.

[6] On August 18, 2017, multiple Trump administration sources acknowledged that Sifakis would be departing the White House in September.

[7][8] An official White House statement, as reported by The Wall Street Journal's Michael C. Bender in an official Twitter post, included Sifakis' originally planned mid-September departure:[7][8] On September 15, 2017, Politico reported that Presidential Personnel Director John DeStefano would temporarily serve as interim Director of the Office of Public Liaison when Sifakis returned to the private sector at the end of the month.