Person

Jon Fromowitz

Nationality:

American

Political Party:

Democratic Party

Residence:

Brooklyn, New York

Occupation(s):

Co-Founder: Future Forward USA PAC, OpenLabs LLC, Blue Sky Strategy, PFB Media

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Jon Fromowitz is a communications professional and Democratic Party operative. He is a co-founder of Future Forward USA PAC, a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC based in Palo Alto, California. He is also a co-founder of OpenLabs LLC, Blue Sky Strategy, and PFB Media. 1 2

Future Forward USA PAC raised around $700 million to support then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign in 2024. The PAC spent approximately $8.3 million on several consulting firms that are owned by the leadership of Future Forward, including OpenLabs and PFB Media. 2 1

Jon Fromowitz has worked as an operations associate for direct mail for the Democratic Party during the 2007 New Jersey Senate election, as national director of remote calling for the 2008 Hillary Clinton for President campaign, as a strategist for Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, as the deputy director of paid media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign, and as the chief speechwriter for then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) during his re-election campaign in 2017. 3

Education and Career

Jon Fromowitz is a communications professional and Democratic Party operative. He is co-founder of Future Forward USA PAC (also known as “FF PAC”), a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC based in Palo Alto, California. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, which he attended from 2004 until 2007. 1

Jon Fromowitz began his career as a social networking coordinator at MacWilliams Robinson and Partners, now known as the New Media Firm, from June 2006 until November 2006. The New Media Firm is a Democratic Party-aligned for-profit public relations firm based in Washington, D.C. 3 4

Fromowitz then worked from July until November 2007 as an operations associate for direct mail for the Democratic Party during the 2007 New Jersey Senate election. He began working as the national director of remote calling for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign from November 2007 until June 2008. Then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) suspended her 2008 election campaign on June 7, 2008, and was defeated by then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who became the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nominee and was later elected the 44th president of the United States. 3 5

Fromowitz also worked for Obama’s election campaign in 2008. He was the assistant general election director for the Obama for America campaign in Pennsylvania from September 2008 until November 2008. He rejoined the Obama for America campaign during President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, working as the campaign’s deputy director of opinion research from February 2012 until November 2012. 6

Fromowitz was a senior analyst at Benenson Strategy Group from February 2009 until February 2011. Benenson Strategy Group is a market research and consultancy firm co-founded by Joel Benenson, who worked as a strategist for Obama’s presidential campaigns, and worked as part of President Bill Clinton’s team during his 1996 re-election campaign. 3 7

Fromowitz worked as a senior strategist at AKPD Message and Media, a left-wing campaign media firm that represents Democratic candidates, from April 2013 until January 2016. He became the deputy director of paid media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign, Hillary for America, from January 2016 until November 2016. He was the chief speechwriter for then-New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) from December 2016 until November 2017, during his re-election campaign. 3

Fromowitz became the vice president of SKDKnickerbocker in February 2018, a position he held until November 2018. SKDKnickerbocker is a political consulting and public affairs company whose clients include prominent Democratic Party politicians, particularly in the state of New York. SKDK has done consulting work for former President Barack Obama, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), and former New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. He was also a senior advisor for paid media for Biden for President, the 2020 presidential election campaign of Joe Biden. 3 8

Fromowitz is a co-founder of Future Forward USA PAC (also known as “FF PAC”), a Democratic Party-aligned super PAC based in Palo Alto, California that was created in 2017. FF PAC reportedly spent $108 million in a “blitz” of spending during the last five weeks of the 2020 election to support President Joe Biden’s campaign by attacking then-President Donald Trump on his COVID-19 policies. FF PAC has been criticized by the left-leaning Center for Responsive Politics for being funded by “dark money.” 3 9 10

He is also the co-founder of OpenLabs LLC, the Democratic Party-linked research and data firm of Future Forward USA Action, which established FF PAC in 2018. 11 12

He also co-founded Blue Sky Strategy in March 2021. Blue Sky Strategy is a Democratic Party-aligned advertising and communications consultancy firm. 3 13

Future Forward Spending

Future Forward USA PAC, which Jon Fromowitz co-founded, raised around $700 million to support then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2024. The PAC spent approximately $8.3 million on several consulting firms that are owned by the leadership of FF PAC, including Fromowitz. GCJ Research, which is named after Chauncey McLean, Gaurav Shirole, and Jon Fromowitz, the founders of FF PAC, received $7.2 million from the political action committee. 2 3

PFB Media, an advertising agency co-owned by Fromowitz, received $524,606 from FF PAC, while OpenLabs LLC received $759,707. 2

References

  1. “Jon Fromowitz.” LinkedIn. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-fromowitz-3922934/.
  2. Fang, Lee. “Kamala Harris SuperPAC Spent Lavishly on Firms Owned by PAC Leadership.” Lee Fang. November 13, 2024. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.leefang.com/p/kamala-harris-superpac-spent-lavishly
  3. “Jon Fromowitz – Experience.” LinkedIn. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-fromowitz-3922934/details/experience/.
  4. “Progressive. Strategic. Creative. Experienced..” The New Media Firm. November 15, 2024. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://thenewmediafirm.com/.
  5. “The Threats They Didn’t See: A New Look Behind the Scenes of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign.” ROPER CENTER. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/threats-they-didnt-see-new-look-behind-scenes-hillary-clintons-2008-presidential-campaign.
  6. “Jon Fromowitz – Experience.” LinkedIn. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-fromowitz-3922934/details/experience/.
  7. “Joel Benenson.” Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.bsgco.com/joel-benenson.
  8. Rubinstein, Dana. “Between Christine Quinn and Hilary Rosen, an unusually loud week for quiet SKD Knickerbocker.” Politico. April 12, 2012. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2012/04/between-christine-quinn-and-hilary-rosen-an-unusually-loud-week-for-quiet-skd-knickerbocker-000000.
  9. News, ABC. “’Dark money,’ used by both parties, featured in $100 million pro-Biden ad blitz.” ABC News. October 28, 2020. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dark-money-parties-featured-100-million-pro-biden/story?id=73863672.
  10. Massoglia, Anna, and Karl Evers-Hillstrom. “‘Dark money’ topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats.” Politico. March 17, 2021. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/03/one-billion-dark-money-2020-electioncycle/.
  11. “Team.” Blue Sky Strategy. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://blueskystrategy.com/.
  12. Vieira, Cecelia. “Future Forward USA PAC (FF PAC).” FactCheck.org. March 7, 2022. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/future-forward-usa-pac-ff-pac/.
  13. “Home.” Blue Sky Strategy. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://blueskystrategy.com/.
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