President & Co-Founder
Berrick Abramson founded Confluence PSG on the conviction that the most contested, complex problems in government
and public life are not unsolvable. They are unresolved because the processes applied to them have not been designed well
enough.
Over more than 25 years, he has served as process architect and neutral facilitator for some of the most consequential
collaborative processes in state government. A Governor-convened AI policy working group that produced unanimous
support from parties in direct conflict for two years, and passed with broad bipartisan support thirteen days after
introduction. A legislatively created transit accountability committee that resolved years of governance gridlock and
produced 31 recommendations now codified in law. A criminal justice working group that reached consensus to restructure a
twenty-year commission facing sunset. A school system redesign after two hurricanes that matched more than 1,400
students with employers in the first year. A disability rights task force that produced 58 recommendations across four
simultaneous subcommittees.
He has been personally requested by sitting Governors, agency heads, and senior officials to facilitate high-stakes
engagements where the outcome mattered too much to leave to a standard process.
His practice spans civil rights, education, criminal justice, transportation, public safety, housing, healthcare, economic and
workforce development, and strategic planning. The breadth is deliberate. Cross-domain synthesis is one of the most
concrete advantages a facilitator can bring to a room where every party has been focused on their own piece of the
problem. What connects transit governance to AI policy to educator safety is not the issue area. It is the sequence, and what
happens when you get it right.
Before founding Confluence, Berrick began his career on the institutional sales and trading desk of one of the nation’s largest
investment banks, led debt and municipal underwriting for a mid-sized firm, and founded a boutique venture consulting firm
that led over $1 billion in transactions. He subsequently led the policy and government affairs team of a 400-person national
nonprofit and built the good government, education, and workforce practices at a policy and mediation organization. He has
mentored founders at TechStars and its Workforce Development Accelerator for six years.
Berrick has served on the Colorado Commission on Higher Education since 2019, appointed by Governor Polis and
reappointed to a second four-year term in 2023. He is an avid skydiver, long-distance ocean paddler, and adventure race
competitor, and has been active in Crohn’s Disease awareness and research since an aggressive form of the disease was
nearly fatal for him in 2019.
