Bruce R. James
Chairman
Bruce R. James is an experienced business and government leader who founded and operated more than a dozen printing and publishing companies over a career exceeding three decades. These companies included Barclays Law Publishers, which was listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation's 500 fastest growing companies for four consecutive years, and the Polish-American Printing Company headquartered in Warsaw, which provided newspaper printing, production and distribution services for more than 40 daily newspapers throughout Poland.
Since moving to Nevada in 1993, James has served on 17 non-profit and for-profit boards and commissions, including the Washoe County Board of Equalization, the Nevada Test Site Development Corporation, the Community Foundation of Western Nevada, the Desert Research Foundation, and the Western Folklife Center.
In 2002, President George W. Bush nominated and the Senate confirmed James as the 24th Public Printer of the United States. Upon taking office, James became the first Nevadan to head a U.S. Government agency reporting directly to the President or Congress. He served from 2002 to 2007 as the chief executive officer of the United States Government Printing Office in Washington, DC where he was widely credited with turning the agency from a money-losing, heavy-metal, inefficient bureaucracy into a high-performing, innovative, streamlined print and electronic information provider offering more services and products to the public with 30% fewer employees. In 2006, his efforts merited the designation, Federal Civilian Executive of the Year, by Government Computer News.
Today, James is the president and chief executive officer of Nevada New-Tech, Inc., a firm he founded in 1993 to make private investments in emerging technology companies in Nevada. He also serves as a Regent of the National Library of Medicine, a Commissioner of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, which accredits colleges and universities in the West, including Nevada, and a Director of The Davidson Academy of Nevada, a public school serving the nation's profoundly gifted children. He is board chairman-emeritus of his alma-mater, Rochester Institute of Technology, one of the nation's largest private universities, and Sierra Nevada College of Incline Village.
Since moving to Nevada in 1993, James has served on 17 non-profit and for-profit boards and commissions, including the Washoe County Board of Equalization, the Nevada Test Site Development Corporation, the Community Foundation of Western Nevada, the Desert Research Foundation, and the Western Folklife Center.
In 2002, President George W. Bush nominated and the Senate confirmed James as the 24th Public Printer of the United States. Upon taking office, James became the first Nevadan to head a U.S. Government agency reporting directly to the President or Congress. He served from 2002 to 2007 as the chief executive officer of the United States Government Printing Office in Washington, DC where he was widely credited with turning the agency from a money-losing, heavy-metal, inefficient bureaucracy into a high-performing, innovative, streamlined print and electronic information provider offering more services and products to the public with 30% fewer employees. In 2006, his efforts merited the designation, Federal Civilian Executive of the Year, by Government Computer News.
Today, James is the president and chief executive officer of Nevada New-Tech, Inc., a firm he founded in 1993 to make private investments in emerging technology companies in Nevada. He also serves as a Regent of the National Library of Medicine, a Commissioner of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, which accredits colleges and universities in the West, including Nevada, and a Director of The Davidson Academy of Nevada, a public school serving the nation's profoundly gifted children. He is board chairman-emeritus of his alma-mater, Rochester Institute of Technology, one of the nation's largest private universities, and Sierra Nevada College of Incline Village.