About Allen Nesbitt

Founder

As the Founder and CEO of Nesbitt & Parrinello since 2005, Allen built one of the most innovative advisory teams in politics and the first such firm founded by an African American. In just three years, we grew the firm to 10 staff and generated annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000.

Innovator

Allen is fanatical about innovation in the service of client success. At Nesbitt & Parrinello, he transformed political research by integrating cloud based collaboration, communication and workflow ideas adapted from social web enterprises. Our work has won awards and been featured in the New York Times.

History Maker

Allen has advised NGOs, labor organizations, and government officials. Among them he has counseled the first openly gay U.S Representatives from New York, the first openly gay mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, the first Black U.S. Representative from Nevada and the first Black U.S. Senate nominee from Florida.

Allen Nesbitt (he/him) is the founder and CEO of Nesbitt & Parrinello, Inc. With over twenty years of experience, he helps Democratic campaigns solve their toughest intelligence challenges by understanding opponents, vulnerabilities, and complex competitive environments. Allen provides strategic research counsel to labor campaigns, climate groups, and democracy advocates at all levels.

Allen’s most noteworthy work includes supporting the only Indian American in the 113th Congress, the first openly gay U.S. Representative from New York, the first openly gay mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, and the first Black U.S. Representative from Nevada. He is the first Black person to lead a Democratic opposition research firm.

Allen recently architected the firm’s Modular Candidate Research System that solves the traditional barriers to professional opposition research: high costs, slow timelines, and one-size-fits-all approaches. Campaigns now access DCCC-style vulnerability research in 12 business days starting at $8,950, with the ability to customize packages based on their specific opponent, whether that requires legislative voting analysis, judicial casework review, or professional background investigation. The system serves 140+ Democratic campaigns through flexible subscription or fixed-fee payment models.

For clients requiring deeper support, Allen provides dedicated research analysts embedded in campaign operations, rapid-response consulting for debate preparation, and in-situ records retrieval for courthouse documents. State parties and legislative caucuses access pre-negotiated multi-district pricing enabling coordinated research across entire slates.

Allen’s approach combines AI-powered efficiency with expert human analysis through the HIHO (Human In, Human Out) methodology, ensuring speed without sacrificing the nuanced judgment political campaigns demand. This innovation has made sophisticated research accessible to campaigns of all sizes, from federal contests to state legislative races where every research dollar must count.

Allen helped the Virginia Democratic Party take back control of the Senate for the first time since 1999. He supported Sean Patrick Maloney’s victory over Tea Party incumbent Nan Hayworth in one of the most competitive Democratic pickups of 2012. In California, Allen’s research helped Ami Bera defeat Dan Lungren by just 5,700 votes in a race that drew $8.65 million in outside spending.

At Monitor Deloitte, Allen built government transition strategy capabilities and advised the U.S. Intelligence Community. Earlier, he designed finance pitch systems at America Coming Together that supported a record $202 million operation in the 2004 presidential election.

Allen grew up in New York City and Kansas. A devoted Jayhawk, he now lives in San Francisco.