• AFFILIATIONS:
  • Board of Directors, One Economy Corp.
  • Member, Economic Club of Washington
  • Board of Directors, State Science & Technology Institute
  • EDUCATION:
  • B.A. - Princeton University
  • J.D. - University of Virginia
  • Virginia Law Review

Bruce P. Mehlman

Partner

Bruce Mehlman has been a sleeves-rolled-up, technology leader in Washington for years. He is determined, effective, experienced. For more than a decade he’s helped Fortune 500 companies understand, anticipate and navigate the public policy environment. And he’s divined and defined trends likely to impact the global marketplace.

Bruce’s engagement is hands-on. He is Executive Director of the Technology CEO Council, the leading CEO-led information technology association. Working with the CEO’s of Applied Materials, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola and Micron, he strives to identify and promote public policies that encourage innovative leadership. The goal? Tech-led economic growth.

Before founding Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc., Bruce served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce Technology Policy. He led efforts to maximize technology’s contribution to U.S. economic growth and global competitiveness. Commerce served as an important proving ground. There, Bruce worked with leaders from industry, federal labs, universities governments on critical policy issues impacting technology’s creators and users. Wide-ranging issues included innovation policy, broadband, biotechnology, technology transfer, nanotechnology and the IT workforce.

Bruce spoke before more than 200 audiences around the nation, ranging from thought leaders at leading universities to industry analysts at national conferences.

Prior to his tenure at the Department of Commerce, Bruce served as Telecommunications Policy Counsel for Cisco Systems. He worked with public policy leaders and technologists on such diverse issues as: broadband development, wireless networking, e-Commerce strategies and internet policy.

In two earlier positions Bruce developed invaluable relationships and sharpened the political skills that would become major assets for Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc. He was Policy Director and General Counsel at the House Republican Conference under Represenative JC Watts, and before that, General Counsel of the National Republican Congressional Committee. At the NRCC he advised Members of Congress and congressional candidates on election law, political broadcast regulations and ethics regulations and ethics.

Bruce lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.