ABJ - October 25 - John Bryson has been sworn as the United States’ 37th Commerce Secretary. Secretary Bryson will be a key member of President Barack Obama’s economic team and will work to implement the administration’s top economic priority: accelerating job creation. Bryson will work to strengthen the economic recovery and U.S. competitiveness, and serve as a voice for the business community in the President’s Cabinet.

“As Secretary of Commerce, [John] Bryson will be a key member of my economic team, working with the business community to promote job creation, foster growth and U.S. competitiveness, and help open new markets around the world for American-made goods,” President Obama said in a statement. “At such a critical time for our economy, I nominated John because I believe his decades of experience both in the public and private sector have given him a clear understanding of what it takes to put America on a stronger economic footing and create jobs. I’m confident he will help us do that and I look forward to working closely with him in the months and years ahead.”

Bryson will oversee an agency charged with helping make American businesses more innovative and successful at home and more competitive abroad. Bryson will focus on achieving the President’s National Export Initiative goals of doubling U.S. exports by the end of 2014; implementing historic reform of the U.S. patent system; overseeing the President’s SelectUSA initiative to encourage more companies–American and foreign–to establish or expand U.S. operations to create more jobs for the American people; and, strengthening America’s manufacturing sector including the small- and medium-sized manufacturers that are the lifeblood of communities across the country.