BRIAN BROKAW brings expertise in campaign management, strategic communications and public affairs to his political and private sector clients. Since opening his firm in 2010, Brokaw has served as a political and communications advisor to prominent elected officials, technology investors and global tech firms, labor and business coalitions, renewable energy companies, Indian tribes, healthcare sector clients and non-profit organizations. In 2014, he was named to CalNewsroom’s list of the “100 best, brightest, and most indispensable people in California politics.”

Brokaw served as campaign manager for Kamala Harris’s successful candidacy for California Attorney General in 2010, one of the closest campaigns in state history in which Harris became the first female and first minority ever elected to the office, and in her re-election campaign in 2014. He presently serves as senior advisor to Harris’s campaign for U.S. Senate.

Brokaw also managed the independent expenditure campaign that helped

elect San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee in 2011 and subsequently launched a tech-sector political advocacy organization, sf.citi.

With more than a decade of experience in California politics, Brokaw has been involved in some of the highest profile statewide candidate and ballot measure campaigns in recent memory. In 2014, he worked to help pass Proposition 1 (Governor Jerry Brown’s water bond) and Proposition 42 (public records). During the 2012 election cycle, Brokaw directed communications in the contentious campaign to defeat Proposition 32 (union dues). Brokaw also worked on the successful campaigns for Propositions 94-97 (Indian gaming compacts) in 2008 and Proposition 71 (stem cell research) in 2004.

From 2006-2008, Brokaw was a consultant with Acosta|Salazar LLC, specializing in media relations, political coalitions and message development.

During the 2008 election cycle, Brokaw served as California communications

director for the Obama-Biden Coordinated Campaign.

Brokaw served as press secretary for Phil Angelides for Governor from 2004-2006. For his work on the campaign, Brokaw was recognized by Capitol Weekly in 2006 as one of 25 “Up and Comers” in California politics.

During the 2003-2004 presidential race Brokaw worked as a field organizer for Senator John Edwards in the Iowa caucus, and later in the Tennessee and California primaries. In the general election campaign for Kerry/Edwards, he served the Democratic National Committee as deputy communications director in California and later on the political staff in the battleground state of Florida.

Brokaw is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where he studied political science and business administration. He resides in Sacramento with his wife and two children.