Background
O"Reilly was born in Sharon, Connecticut to Maureen Buckley-O"Reilly and Gerald A. O"Reilly, a Senior Vice President at Richardson-Vicks. He is a grandson of Texas oilman William F. Buckley and a nephew of famed conservative author William F. Buckley, Junior., former United States Senator James L. Buckley, author Fergus Reid Buckley, National Review Editor Priscilla Buckley and Patricia Buckley Bozell, among others O"Reilly is a great grandson of prolific American writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan.
Career
He is a partner at The November Team Limited Liability Company, a New York-based communications firm. O"Reilly is the publisher of the conservative newsblog the "Blackberry Alarm Clock". He also writes a twice-weekly opinion column for Newsday.
He went to New York University and worked for a time as a journalist in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.
He began his work in politics for State Senator Roy Goodman and later worked as a press officer at the New York State Senate and New York City Council. O"Reilly has worked on or advised dozens of United States. political and public affairs campaigns in his career and once served as President of the Metropolitan Republican Club, an iconic institution on New York City"s Upper East Side founded by former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.
In 2006, O"Reilly notably helped guide long-shot Gubernatorial candidate and ex New York State Assembly Minority Leader, John Faso to the Republican nomination over establishment favorite, Bill Weld. Joining the firm of Nicholas & Lence Communications, owned by George Lence and Cristyne Nicholas, communications consultants to both Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, O"Reilly began consulting for both political and corporate clients.
As a partner and executive vice president, he headed up the firm"s political unit, known as NLO Strategies.
He is also the communications consultant for the New York State Republican Committee. In 2014, he broke off from NLO to form the November Team Limited Liability Company, which was advising Astorino"s nascent gubernatorial campaign against incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo. Coincidentally, the Cuomo Administration hired his former Republican partners Delegate Percio and Nicholas.".
