Bruce D. Abramson

Experience

New College of Florida (2023–present)
Executive Director | New Student & Graduate Admissions
Executive Director | Applied Data Science Recruitment & Partnerships

• Critical part of a new leadership team brought in to turn around a once-proud, recently failing institution.
• Reworked goals and processes for the Admissions Office of a small, public, liberal arts honors college.
• Developed recruitment narrative consistent with mission statement of the school.
• Initiated partnerships and programs to recalibrate, update, and improve the college’s reputation among High School students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
• Brought the conceptualization of graduate education at a liberal arts college on brand.
• Launched new programs to improve recruitment and partnerships for the Graduate program in Applied Data Science.
• Developed and taught course on “Information Integrity,” integrating the psychology, inferential reasoning, and network flow theory necessary to navigate the contemporary information and media terrain safely.
• Organized and hosted high-end speaker programs drawing pride and prestige to the campus.
• Wrote and placed articles, and contributed to reporting, covering positive developments at the college and highlighting its role in a burgeoning (and long overdue) movement toward reforming higher education.

Informationism, Inc. (2004–present)
CEO | Strategic Counsel, Expert Witness, and Research Lead

• Built a solo practice generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenues melding legal, strategic, and technical advising.
• Defended litigation clients against claims spiraling into many hundreds of millions of dollars, typically generating favorable confidential settlements at a small fraction of plaintiff’s demands.
• Secured sizable confidential settlements for litigation plaintiffs.
• Published books, articles, and monographs about the interplay among technology, business, law, and public policy. Keynoted international conferences by invitation from their sponsors.
• Mediated numerous disputes to successful resolutions favorable to both parties.
• Helped major research universities, governments, and intergovernmental agencies refine and revise IP policies.
• Collaborative appointments have included: Senior Consultant at Charles River Associates; Expert at Rosenfarb, LLC; Counsel at Cittone & Chinta, LLP; Mediator at SEEDS; Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research; Policy Director for the Iron Dome Alliance.
• Prominent clients include: the World Bank; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Technical Chamber of Greece; Sheppard Mullin; Quinn Emanuel; DLA Piper; Alston & Bird; Turner Boyd; Wiley Rein; Rosen Saba; Foley & Lardner; Hantman and Associates; the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Keystone Strategy; and the Alameda County, CA Courts.

American Center for Education & Knowledge (2020–present)
Director | Public Policy Education and Research

• Developed mission and vision statements for a new charitable educational organization dedicated to the American ideals of individual liberty and personal responsibility.
• Led development and promotion of content and educational materials consistent with the organization’s mission.
• Appeared in print, on radio, and on podcasts promoting the organization’s mission and highlighting its approaches to different areas of American life, including tech sector and higher education reform.

American Restoration Institute (2019–23)
Founder | Public Policy Education and Research

• Established key principles guiding a new charitable organization dedicated to restoring American values and combating the dominance of cultural progressivism.
• Developed and published numerous materials covering large aspects of domestic and foreign policy.
• Appeared in print and on TV discussing issues related to combating antisemitism, promoting Middle East peace, and securing religious freedom.

JBB&A Strategies / B2 Strategic (2018–23)
Managing Partner | Politics, Policy, Litigation, Monetization, and Communication

• Developed strategic proposals for potential and active clients.
• Crafted political and policy advisory strategies for broad circulation, as well as for internal deliberations.
• Positioned political and policy strategies within print and broadcast media.
• Identified and recruited American and Israeli contributors to form a new international water company.
• Developed strategies for client deploying innovative technologies for sentiment research.

London Center for Policy Research (2015–20)
Senior Fellow | Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Economics

• Authored research monograph on the future of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
• Briefed Hill staffers and lobbyists on Middle East policy.

Iron Dome Alliance (2015–18)
Vice President | Director of Policy

• Played key role in promoting the genuinely pro-Israel plank in the 2016 GOP Platform.
• Co-founded and drafted policy framework for a new pro-Israel Super PAC.
• Published numerous columns and articles describing innovative approaches to pro-Israel lobbying.
• Devised strategic plan for enactment of new Middle East policies viewing Israel as the model success story rather than as a problem in need of management.

Rimon, P.C. (2011–2014)
Partner | IP Advisory and Litigation Services

• Devised and deployed factual analyses for litigation clients. Settled numerous matters on confidential terms that clients deemed strongly favorable.
• Drafted and critiqued contracts, licenses, and patents that meld technical, legal, and business concerns. Provided the mechanisms necessary for clients to secure millions of dollars of business.
• Attracted, recruited, and served clients generating significant firm revenues.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2003-2004)
Clerk | Chambers of the Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa

• Wrote over forty bench memos to help a Federal Appeals Court Judge prepare for oral argument and decide cases relating to a broad range of legal issues in intellectual property, international trade, claims against the U.S. government, veterans’ affairs, personnel, and other areas of the law.
• Drafted a dozen recommended legal opinions for a Federal Appeals Court Judge tasked with writing for the Court in cases involving patents, digital copyrights, antitrust, government contracting, veterans’ affairs, tax, takings, and personnel. Worked closely with the Judge on both substance and presentation, and helped usher the opinions through the panel process to successful publication.
• Prominent cases included: The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc., 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004); SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp., 365 F.3d 1306 (Fed. Cir. 2004); and Unitherm Food Sys. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc., 375 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2004).

Charles River Associates, Inc. (1998-2003, 2004-2014)
Principal | Valuation, Antitrust, and Technology Economist
also: Consultant, Competition (1998-2000); Senior Consultant, Competition & IP (2004-2014)

• Generated over four million dollars in revenues for major consulting firm.
• Devised and implemented valuation strategies for plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits involving billions of dollars, including several bet-the-company cases.
• Gained regulatory clearance for clients seeking to complete multi-billion-dollar mergers.
• Provided critical industry analyses to regulatory agencies involved in restructuring critical economic sectors.
• Managed and supervised teams of junior analysts within a matrixed organization.
• Prominent clients included: Procter & Gamble, HotJobs, AOL, RealNetworks, Bandag, Pitney Bowes, IBM, Northrop, Duke Energy, and Neopost.

Gordian Solutions, Inc. (1996–2000)
President | Economic and Technical Consultant, and Research Lead

• Applied advanced techniques for data extraction, data integrity, and quantitative analysis to legal issues in support of litigation experts opining about hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Proved an assessment of zero damages against an unindicted co-conspirator client in a complex price-fixing case.
• Explored the applicability of innovations from Artificial Intelligence and Decision Analysis to the energy, environmental, and defense sectors. Obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants.
• Managed and supervised teams of analysts involved in the collaborative preparation of economic expert reports.
• Prominent clients/collaborators included Carnegie Mellon University, The Brattle Group, and Charles River Associates.

Carnegie Mellon University (1994–1999)
Research Adjunct Professor | Engineering & Public Policy

• Secured grants from the National Science Foundation on the application of decision analysis and artificial intelligence to concrete engineering problems.
• Collaborated on conference presentations and articles on funded research.

Cambridge Research Associates, Inc. (1994-96)
Director | Economic and Policy Analysis, Defense Conversion

• Managed the engineering team conducting a process-oriented review of advanced military logistics. Developed a simulation system useful in identifying bottlenecks in logistical planning, and in deriving recommendations for speeding troop preparedness and deployment under a six-figure government contract.
• Identified defense conversion opportunities for projects that employed flight simulation and process simulation in the trucking, oil drilling, and commercial satellite industries capable of generating millions of dollars in additional revenues.
• Prepared a political security analysis for an American-allied air force subject to a multi-million-dollar contract.

Information Extraction and Transport, Inc. (1993-94)
Principal Scientist | Advanced Computing and Military Intelligence

• Conducted technical and scientific research working primarily on ARPA (the Advanced Projects Research Agency) projects. Contributed to proposals necessary to secure government funding in the millions of dollars.
• Served as key member of scientific team developing Bayesian techniques to coordinate intelligence derived from numerous sources with varying degrees of credibility. Worked closely with both engineers and intelligence analysts.

University of Southern California (1987-93)
Assistant Professor | Department Computer Science, Social Science Research Institute

• Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in computer programming, artificial intelligence, decision analysis, and expert systems. Received a university-wide award for projects in innovative teaching.
• Pioneered research on heuristic search techniques; the use of both classical and Bayesian statistics in the design of search algorithms; techniques for generating automated consensus drawn from divergent data sources; and the applicability of structured interviewing techniques first developed for small-scale problem solving into spaces containing tens of thousands of variables.
• Applied cutting-edge research to develop full-blown simulation systems for predicting price movements in the oil markets, and for forecasting severe summer storms.
• Prominent collaborators included the Atlantic Richfield Company, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Arthur Andersen & Co., and Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett.

Updated September 2025