Bradley Tusk

Bradley Tusk (Born October 3, 1973) is the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, the parent company of Tusk Ventures, Tusk Strategies, Ivory Gaming Group, Kronos Archives, and the Tusk Montgomery Family Foundation.[1] He also served as the campaign manager for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s successful 2009 re-election bid,as Deputy Governor of Illinois, as Communications Director for US Senator Chuck Schumer and as special assistant to Mayor Bloomberg.[2]

Tusk Ventures

Tusk Ventures, founded in 2015 by Bradley Tusk, works with startups to navigate through government, politics, media, unions and anything else that could impact the company's growth. [3] Davey Alba explained the need in Wired: "It's almost an assumed part of the deal that at some point the most successful startups will have to go up against the government."[4] Seth Fiegerman writes in Mashable that Tusk Ventures "is selling what some startups desperately want to buy: advice on how to beat the system." [5]

Current companies in Tusk Ventures' portfolio include Uber, Handy, Ripple, Eaze,[6] FanDuel[7] and General Assembly. [8][9]

Tusk Strategies

Tusk is the founder of Tusk Strategies, a political and strategic consulting firm based in New York City. The firm develops and runs multi-jurisdictional campaigns for clients including Google, Walmart, AT&T, Expedia, political leaders such as Mike Bloomberg, media companies including AMC, NBC News, The Weather Channel, Discovery, Cablevision, and institutions like Stanford University.[10] He has also led campaigns for individuals, such as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.[11] Tusk Strategies also leads major issue advocacy campaigns around education reform and good government; campaigns to help political candidates, non-profits and trade associations. [12] [13]

Tusk Strategies has led 72 campaigns in 41 states throughout the United States.[14]

Ivory Gaming Group

Ivory Gaming Group was co-founded by Bradley Tusk and Christian Goode in 2015 to develop and manage casinos, including their day-to-day operations which include food and beverage services, marketing and media.[15] A recent example is the role Ivory Gaming is playing in the reopening of Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino near Fresno, California. [16]

Kronos Archives

Kronos Archives is a company founded by Tusk which creates personal digital libraries for clients using any and all media such as videos, photos, documents and more to tell the story of a family, individual, company or institution. The finished product is searchable, metatagged and fully digitized.[17]

Tusk Montgomery Family Foundation

Along with his wife, Harper Montgomery, Tusk created the Tusk Montgomery Family Foundation. The Foundation is a new model of philanthropy, bringing best-in-class advocacy and political strategy to the issue of food insecurity at the state and local level. The Foundation provides sophisticated political counsel and expertise to hunger advocacy groups and food banks in cities and states across the country. [18]

Michael Bloomberg Campaign

Tusk served as campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg’s successful 2009 re-election for mayor. In referring to Tusk's role with the Bloomberg campaign, the New York Times said: "Mr. Tusk’s high level of organization, and his demand for corporate-style accountability, earned him admiration and occasional resentment within the campaign. He kept meticulous checklists and spreadsheets on a dozen topics at a time, and sought daily, sometimes hourly, updates from staff members. Over the summer, he ordered staff members to work until 8 every night. They were unhappy, and let him know it. He refused to back down, worried the large staff was becoming complacent. Yet the campaign rarely, if ever, missed an internal deadline, and it committed few serious missteps." [19] The New York Observer described Tusk as "Mayor Bloomberg's Secret Weapon." [20] Tusk was recently named one of the “Top 20 most influential people in New York City." [21]

Lehman Brothers

After serving as Deputy Governor, Tusk served as Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, where he created the lottery monetization group and headed all of its efforts regarding U.S. based lotteries.[22] Combining his backgrounds in finance and politics, Tusk developed a successful framework to help state's monetize their lotteries.[23]

Illinois Deputy Governor

Prior to serving as campaign manager for Bloomberg 2009, Tusk, who previously had not been a resident of Illinois, served as Deputy Governor of the State of Illinois from 2003–2006, where he oversaw the state finances, policy, legislation, communications, and operations, including a $60 million budget and a workforce of 57,000.[24] [25] Under his tenure, Illinois became the first state to guarantee health care for all children, the first state to offer pre-school to all 3 and 4 year olds, the first state to import prescription drugs from Europe and Canada, and the first state to convert its entire tollway system to Open Road Tolling. Under Tusk's leadership, Illinois reduced its state workforce by 20% without raising taxes.

Special Advisor to Michael Bloomberg

Before his appointment as Deputy Governor, Tusk served as Special Advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,[26] where he led the successful effort to re-write the New York City charter and created the Mayor's campaign promise index, making Bloomberg the nation's first public official to publicly report on the status of every one of his campaign promises.[24]

Communications Director for Senator Schumer

Prior to joining the Bloomberg Administration, Tusk served as Communications Director for United States Senator Charles Schumer, handling communications, strategy and policy for the Senator, most notably in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on New York City.[24]

Advisor to Parks Commissioner

Tusk also served as Senior Advisor and spokesman [27] to New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern,[24] and was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University.[23]

Education, honors and other associations

Tusk is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received his BA in 1995.[28] He has a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, which he received in 1999.[24] Tusk was named to Crain’s Business Weekly’s 40 under 40.[29] He serves on the boards of Creative Time, StoryCorps and the New York advisory board of the Trust for Public Land.[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Bradley Tusk". AiHit. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Rubinstein, Dana; Nahmias, Laura (24 July 2015). "Uber rewrites the book on beating de Blasio". Capital New York. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Grandoni, Dino (2 August 2015). "Political Consultant for Uber to Advise Other Start-Ups". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Alba, Davey (5 August 2015). "The Fixer Who Helps Startups Like Uber Beat the Government". Wired. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Bradley Tusk thinks there’s something to that idea, and he hopes to capitalize on it. This week, he and a few like-minded colleagues with political and investing experience introduced Tusk Ventures, which Tusk touts as the nation’s first political consulting firm that aims to help startups leap the myriad regulatory hurdles that many face.
  5. ↑ Fiegerman, Seth (4 August 2015). "The man who saved Uber in New York is looking for new startups". Mashable. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  6. ↑ McAlone, Nathan. "This app can get you a doctor's note and a bag of weed in as little as 10 minutes". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Reagan, Brad. "A Fantasy Sports Wizard's Winning Formula". The Wall Street Journal.
  8. ↑ Brown, Kristen V. (24 September 2015). "Meet the man helping tech companies like Uber crush government regulation". Fusion. Retrieved 29 September 2015. Besides Uber, Handy and Ripple, the firm is advising coding school General Assembly, an on-demand parking company called Valet Anywhere and Zendrive, a driving analytics startup.
  9. ↑ Primack, Dan (3 August 2015). "Uber consultant emerges with a new stock swap offer for tech startups". Fortune. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  10. ↑ Tiku, Nitasha (10 November 2011). "The Political Operative Managing Stanford’s Bid for Tech Campus Also Ran Mayor Bloomberg’s Last Election". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  11. ↑ Caputo, Marc (16 June 2014). "Brian Ballard takes Manhattan in Tusk Strategies alliance". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "NYT: Hedge Funds’ Leaders Rally for Charter Schools"
  13. ↑ "WSJ: Senate Nears Deal On Charter Cap"
  14. ↑ "Tusk Strtegies/Expertise". Tusk Strategies. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians ("Tribe") is pleased to announce that its wholly owned tribal enterprise, Chukchansi Economic Development Authority ("CEDA"), is making substantial progress in re-opening their world class gaming facility, Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino". PR Newswire. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  16. ↑ Stutz, Howard (28 July 2015). "One-time Resorts World Las Vegas top exec now managing Calif. Indian casino". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  17. ↑ "Kronos Archives". Kronos. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  18. ↑ "Tusk Strategies/Scot Schwaitzberg". Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  19. ↑ "NYT: Chief Factor in Mayor’s Race: Bloomberg Influence"
  20. ↑ "NY Observer: Mayor Bloomberg's Secret Weapon"
  21. ↑ "City Hall: The Influentials" Archived October 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  22. ↑ "NYT: Privatizing the Prize"
  23. 1 2 3 "Bradley Tusk". The Trust for Public Land. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bradley Tusk ’99: A Big Name in the Big Apple, and Beyond". The University of Chicago. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2015. Tusk...is widely credited with spearheading the administration’s most notable successes, such as broadly expanding medical insurance for children, and for effectively overseeing a massive proportion of the state’s operations, including its $60 billion budget and its 57,000-person workforce.
  25. ↑ Loeser, Stu; Tilley, Cory (16 June 2010). "Top Florida and New York Consulting Firms, Ballard Partners and Tusk Strategies, Announce Strategic Alliance". Capital Soup. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  26. ↑ Rashid, Brian (15 July 2015). "5 Leadership Lessons I Learned Working For Mayor Bloomberg". Forbes. Retrieved 2 August 2015. A man named Bradley Tusk ran the Mayor’s entire campaign. He was a genius. We loved Bradley. He was brilliant, yet approachable.
  27. ↑ Martin, Douglas (29 July 1999). "Leash Patrol Touts Victory In City Parks; Next, Pit Bulls". New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2015. The tougher approach to the leash law was the brainchild of Mr. Tusk, the agency's former spokesman, who had left his job for two years to attend the University of Chicago Law School.
  28. ↑ "Paths in Public Service Featuring Bradley Tusk". Roosevelt House. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  29. ↑ "Crain’s 40 under 40 list for 2003" list in 2003.
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