Brad Rubenstein

Brad Rubenstein has been, at times, a software developer and systems architect, a classical musician, a project manager, and a theatre and indie film producer. Most recently, he is co-author, with Adam Josephs, of the project management bible, Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World (RUF). RUF is a treasure trove of resources Brad and Adam produced as a reference guide for their clients at Celerity Consulting, a boutique project management consulting firm. In his free cycles, Brad volunteers as an advisor for Open Library, where his book has been put to use countless times.

Growing up in Southeast Asian, Brad describes himself as a third culture kid.

“My childhood was in Thailand and Indonesia”, Brad says, “I came back to the United States to study computer science, just as Silicon Valley was taking off.”

After finishing a PhD at U.C. Berkeley, Brad cut his teeth in Silicon Valley as an early employee at Sun Microsystems. In the ’90s, he moved to New York to design and develop the distributed trading and risk management infrastructure employed by Goldman Sachs as they automated their operations. Since leaving Goldman in 2000, Brad transitioned into a project coaching and team building role as a co-founder of Celerity consulting where he has spent nearly two decades sharing his expertise with a wide variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations on how to get things done.