Brian Pomper

Brian Pomper is a founding partner of Parven Pomper Strategies Inc. He has more than a decade of experience working in the government and representing businesses in the private sector. At Parven Pomper Strategies, Pomper has helped clients on political strategy and advocated for them before the U.S. Congress and administrative agencies on a wide array of issues, including international trade, customs, tax policy, health care, patent reform, intellectual property, and financial services issues. Prior to founding the firm, Brian Pomper was the chief international trade counsel for Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on the Democratic staff of the Senate Finance Committee. In that capacity, he was responsible for advising Chairman Baucus and the other members of the committee on all aspects of the committee's international trade and economic agenda, including oversight of ongoing trade negotiations, market access issues, international trade disputes, intellectual property, and international tax and customs issues. Before joining the Finance Committee, Pomper worked at the Washington, DC office of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he focused on international trade, litigation, and intellectual property matters. Before entering private law practice, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Sidney R. Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Billings, Montana. He earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering with honors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a law degree magna cum laude from the Cornell University Law School, where he was managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal.