David Plouffe

David Plouffe is an American political strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obamas successful 2008 presidential campaign. A longtime Democratic Party campaign consultant, he was a partner at the partyaligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media, which he joined in 2000. Plouffe was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the presidents first day in office and was then appointed as a Senior Advisor to the President in 2011 following the resignation of David Axelrod, who went on to start Obamas reelection campaign. In September 2014, he became the Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy for transportation network company startup Uber. In May 2015, he left that role to become a fulltime strategic adviser for the company.

Plouffe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, in a Catholic family , the son of Frances , a stayathome mother, and James Everett Jim Plouffe, a factory worker who later had a job in marketing. He was raised in a workingclass family. Plouffe attended St. Marks High School. He left the University of Delaware prior to graduating in 1989 to pursue a fulltime career in politics, and completed his full undergraduate degree in May 2010.

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