Norton Garfinkle is chairman of Princeton Scientific Capital Management, a financial investment company.
Garfinkle was Chairman of Cambridge Parallel Processing, which provided the super-computers that managed the Reuters News Service.
Garfinkle is Chairman of the Future of American Democracy Foundation,[1] a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies,[2] "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".
On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss his report on reforming the voting systems used in the 2000 Presidential Election.
On October 6, 2006, he appeared on the PBS show The Open Mind to discuss his book, The American Dream vs.