His great-grandparents, Isaac and Rebecca Grossman, left Bessarabia to come to the United States. The 13 children came with them, including his grandfather Max. Grossman previously served as chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Par- ty from 1991 to 1992, president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AI- PAC) from 1992 to 1996 and chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1997 to 1999. In the spring of 2015, Grossman became the CEO of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a Boston-based nonprofit focused on strengthening inner city economies that was founded by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Prior to his involvement in politics, Grossman worked at Goldman Sachs. In 1975 he left Goldman Sachs to work in his family business, a paper supplier called Massachu- setts Envelope Company, now the Grossman Marketing Group. In 2012 Grossman was named number 47 on a list of the 100 most influential institutional investors worldwide by the Asset International magazine. Grossman Marketing Group, a fourth-generation family business, is a full-ser- vice provider of marketing solutions to customers in fields as varied as financial ser- vices, law, biotechnology, education, and the arts. For more than 110 years, we have partnered with our clients to ensure that their communications campaigns are well developed and well executed