Bradley Tusk

Bradley Tusk is the campaign manager for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election bid. Tusk recently 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. Combining his backgrounds in finance and politics, Tusk developed a framework to integrate the four processes necessary in a lottery monetization – financial, political, legislative and regulatory – knowing that the traditional investment banking approach to public-private partnerships is not sufficient to gain approval to successfully privatize an asset as large and controversial as state lotteries.

Before joining Lehman Brothers, Tusk served as Deputy Governor of the State of Illinois from 2003 through 2006, where he oversaw the state budget, policy, legislation, communications, and operations, including managing a 57,000 person workforce and a $58 billion annual budget. During Tusk’s tenure, Illinois became the first state to offer access to affordable health care to every child, the first state to offer preschool to every three and four year old, the first state to import prescription drugs from Europe and Canada, and the first state to tear down its tollbooths and convert its entire tollway system to Open Road Tolling. Under Tusk’s leadership, the State reduced its workforce by 20%, consolidated over twenty state agencies, and eliminated $8 billion in budget deficits without raising taxes.

Before his appointment as Deputy Governor, Tusk served as Special Assistant to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 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. Tusk also served as Senior Advisor to New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, and was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University. Tusk is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago Law School, and was named to Crain’s Business Weekly’s 40 under 40 list in 2003.