BRUCE BERMAN
Senior Counselor

Bruce Berman is a Senior Counselor to The PR Consulting Group, and President and principal owner of Brody Berman Associates, Inc., a leading public relations and management consulting firm that provides direct principal involvement. Over the past twenty years Bruce has implemented marketing, investor relations, and public relations programs on behalf of more than 200 businesses and partnerships. Representative clients include technology and healthcare companies, merger and acquisition targets, corporate departments and divisions, investment bankers and partnerships, owners of patents and patents portfolios, brands and other IP, and law firms and practices.

Prior to establishing Brody Berman in 1988, he served as Vice President - Financial Relations at Ruder & Finn, one of the oldest and largest public relations consultancies. Previously, he was Vice President at Rubenstein, Wolfson & Company (now a part of WeberShandwick PLC) focusing on professional services and investment banking clients.

Bruce’s articles have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Internet Letter, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, Managing Intellectual Property, BuySide and EuroBusiness . He has additionally been quoted on technology and IP-related issues in media outlets such as Buyouts, Reuters, Asset Sales Report, BondWeek, Crain's New York Business, EE Times, The New York Times and PR Week . He is both editor and contributing author of Hidden Value: Profiting from the Intellectual Property Economy (Euromoney Institutional Investor, 1998), and From Ideas to Assets: Investing Wisely in Intellectual Property , an IP best-seller, of which he wrote significant parts and also edited for John Wiley & Sons, was published in early 2002. Bruce is co-chair of the IP Marketing Committee of the Licensing Executives Society (L.E.S.) and is on the editorial advisory board of Patent Strategy & Management. Recently, he provided expert witness testimony in a litigation action involving the misuse of marketing resources.

Bruce is a member of the Business Advisory Board of xpressMD Technologies, which designs and distributes software applications and platforms for physician-patient connectivity. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the , urban self-help organization Student Athletes, Inc., and as an un-paid advisor to the New York Society of Architects and The Brookings Institution.

Bruce received his master’s degree from Columbia University where he also completed course work and comprehensive requirements for his Ph.D. in film scholarship and criticism. He received his Bachelor of Arts in American Literature and Journalism with honors from The City College of New York.

Contact: bberman@prcg.com