DR. NUZZO

DR. JAMES L.J. NUZZO
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Dr. Nuzzo has been the Managing Partner of The Colchester Group, an advisory and early stage investment boutique since 1991. Dr. Nuzzo was selected for the White House Fellowship under President Reagan and was the Deputy Director of Policy (Economic and Domestic) to Vice President George H.W. Bush. Later he served as the Special Assistant to the Administrator for International Finance of the US Environmental Protection Agency, where he developed the EPA's international finance expertise, created debt for nature swap proposals, evaluated all EPA IF policy initiatives, and worked on ideas for augmenting environmental auditing of World Bank loan proposals. He has been an advisor on a variety of political campaigns from Presidential, US Senate, to local referenda. He has been a producer for ABC News Nightline and was an on-air political analyst for New England Cable News and PBS and other media outlets for 14 years.

He has been an angel investor for several companies and has been a consultant to a variety of corporate, non-profit, and public-sector clients including: AVX/Kyocera, US Department of Defense, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Association of Security Dealers, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Harvard Medical School and the Carthusian Order and the Anglican Church of Canada. For the past six years he has been Vice Chair of the board and in 2018 his role changed to General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of ExactTrak, Ltd., a British based cybersecurity hardware firm which has been an incubatee of the GCHQ and a Finalist in the Pitch at the Palace 2018. He is a member of the Massachusetts and US Supreme Court bars. He is also a member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society.

Dr. Nuzzo received his JD with honors from Harvard Law School where he was selected for the Kaufman Fellowship, as well as an Adjunct Scholar with the National Center for the Public Interest and was the law clerk to the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and later named a Wasserstein Fellow for his work in public interest law. His MD is from Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, and won the Georgetown Clinical Society, The Upjohn Academic Achievement Award, the Neurology Prize and the Pathology Fellowship. He was Chief Resident in neurology at the Brigham & Women’s and Beth Israel Hospitals of Harvard Medical School and Research Fellow at the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a research diplomate of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale College in History and was Chairman of The Yale Record, the nation’s oldest humor magazine.

He is a member of the boards of trustees of the U.S. Capitol Page Alumni Association, the American Friends of Eton College and the Parents’ Committee of Colorado College. He recently stepped down as the Chair of the Williams College Parents’ Fund, President of the Harvard Pierian Foundation, Regional Vice Chair of the Harvard College Parents’ Fund as well as the boards of the Boston Ballet and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.

He and his wife Bryann Bromley, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health at Harvard Medical School, have three children. He is an avid golfer and sculler. He lives in Chestnut Hill, MA and Portsmouth, RI.
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