Bradley Tusk is the founder of  Tusk Strategies, Tusk Ventures, the Mobile Voting Project, Solving Hunger, the Gotham Book Prize, and P&T Knitwear. He serves as CEO of Tusk Holdings.

Tusk Strategies is the nation’s premier boutique political consulting firm. Tusk Ventures is the world’s first venture capital fund to focus on early stage startups in highly regulated industries, investing in and handling political and regulatory issues for startups like Lemonade, Ro, FanDuel, Circle, Coinbase, Latch, Bird and dozens of others.

In 2009, Bradley served as Mike Bloomberg’s campaign manager for mayor and then worked for Bloomberg at City Hall. He was Deputy Governor of Illinois from 2003-2006, where he ran the state’s budget, policy, operations, communications and legislation, and earlier served as US Senator Chuck Schumer’s communications director from 2000-2002. He was also Uber’s first political adviser, helped design and run the campaign to mobilize Uber customers to beat the taxi industry, and then turned that idea into mobile voting.

In 2025, the Mobile Voting Project released a secure new platform that will make it possible to vote securely on your phone — dramatically increasing turnout and decreasing control by the extremes. This technology, VoteSecure, is open-source and its  code is now available for free on GitHub.  Legislation is now advancing in multiple states to make mobile voting an option in local elections and Anchorage will be the first city to offer mobile voting in its municipal elections this April. His mobile voting TED talk from April 2025 was ranked by TED as one of the ten most essential of the year

Another focus of Tusk Philanthropies, Solving Hunger, funds and runs campaigns to mandate programs like universal school meals, passing 29 bills in 23 states to date. Those bills provide funding to provide daily meals for 4.75 million additional people (93% of whom are kids), unlocking $6.8 billion in new government funding for hunger programs.

In New York City, Tusk Philanthropies successfully pressured the Speaker to call the scaffolding bill in the Council (which will dramatically reduce scaffolding going forward). This came on the heels of funding and helping pass legislation in the City Council to ban brokers fees for rental apartments, working with and pressuring Mayor Adams to launch a real campaign to close around 1,500 illegal weed shops and passing a shield law in Albany to protect New York doctors prescribing abortion meds from civil litigation and criminal indictment in red states. The organization then applied public pressure to force CitBike to stop allowing underage users to recklessly ride e-bikes at top speeds and instead verify age — and then did it again in January 2026 with Governor Hochul to require biometric screening to log into gambling apps to prevent underage usage, especially from boys.

Bradley is also the founder of P&T Knitwear, an independent bookstore, event space and cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It is home to the only free podcast studio in New York City that anyone can use. In addition, Bradley co-founded the Gotham Book Prize, which awards $50,000 annually to the best book published that year set in or about New York City. He is the author of three books: a memoir called The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics, a novel about the politics of flying cars called Obvious in Hindsight and a policy book called Vote With Your Phone.

Bradley hosts Firewall, a twice-weekly podcast about the intersection of tech and politics. He writes a weekly column for Substack and a column for the New York Daily News. He taught at Columbia Business school and is developing a free AI tool called How to Create Societal Change. He lives in downtown Manhattan, has two teenage kids, and is an irrational Mets fan.