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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Government space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Doug Ludlow
Co-Founder and CEO of MainStreet
Doug is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MainStreet, a company creating jobs in rural and suburban communities. Previously, Doug was the Founder of Hipster, which was acquired by AOL in March of 2012. Hipster had raised $1M from Google Ventures, BoxGroup, CRV, Lerer Hippeau, Ludlow Ventures, Techstars, 500 Startups, Mitch Kapor, David Tisch, and other distinguished angels. In addition, Doug is a 2007 alumni of TechStars Boulder, having founded madKast (acquired by ShareThis.com in 2008).
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Brian Schimpf
Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries
Brian Schimpf is Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries. Previously, Brian was Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies, where he led a large engineering organization developing and deploying data integration and analysis products. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in DARPA’s Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
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About Anduril Industries: Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance.
Eric DeMarco
President & CEO of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Eric DeMarco is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS). Eric DeMarco joined the Company in November 2003 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and assumed the role of CEO in April 2004. Since joining Kratos, Eric DeMarco has been instrumental in leading the Company’s efforts to grow and build, both organically and through strategic acquisition, a leading Product and Technology Based National Security focused business. Prior to Kratos, Eric DeMarco was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Titan Corporation, which was later acquired by L-3. Under his leadership, Titan grew from approximately $150 million in annualized revenue to $1.5 billion, with a backlog of over $4 billion. Eric DeMarco efforts were instrumental in creating one of the largest government information technology companies in the United States. Before Titan, Eric DeMarco served in a variety of public accounting positions primarily focusing on large multinational corporations and publicly traded companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration and Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Sultan Ahmed Sulayem
Group Chairman and CEO of DP World Group
His Excellency Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem became Chairman of DP World on 30 May 2007. He is a leading UAE and international businessman whose visionary leadership spearheaded the rapid expansion of Dubai’s infrastructure, including ports and free zones, contributing significantly to the stellar growth trajectory of the United Arab Emirates. Mr Bin Sulayem was previously Chairman of Dubai World and in this role oversaw businesses in industries as diverse as real estate development, hospitality, tourism, retail, e-commerce, commodities, transportation and logistics. He previously served as Chairman of Port & Free Zone World FZE and remains one of the two representatives of DP World’s majority shareholder on the Board. Highlights of his career, spanning three decades, comprise DP World’s international expansion, including the $6.85 billion acquisition of P&O Group to become a leading global marine terminals operator, establishing and leading Nakheel, a real estate and tourism property development firm that created many iconic Dubai projects including The Palm, the world’s largest man-made islands; establishing and leading Istithmar World, a major global private equity investment house; and pioneering the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre. Mr. Bin Sulayem holds a BS in Economics from Temple University, United States. A citizen of the United Arab Emirates, he is 59 years old.
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About DP World Group: DP World is an enabler of global trade and a leader in marine terminal operations and development, logistics, and related services.
Josh Mackanic
Founder & CEO of CivilGrid
Energy industry leader, experienced in organizing and leading multidisciplinary teams to implement large capital infrastructure programs and change initiatives. At PG&E, developed solar power plants on the largest utility owned solar program in the nation, and successfully led the integration of safety automation technology new to natural gas utilities across the country.
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About CivilGrid: Local intelligence for global construction.
Jean-Francois Gauthier
Founder and CEO of Startup Genome
JF (Jean-Francois) Gauthier is a growth executive based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With international experiences in Italy, Canada, France, and the UK, Jean-Francois has played pivotal roles in leading companies towards big growth. Previous roles include COO of Eolica Power, CFO of ConnectAndSell, Inc, and CEO of Iscopia Software. He is currently the CFO and Head of Business Development for Compass.
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About Exit Reality, Startup Genome: Startup Genome is a research and policy advisory organization for governments that helps accelerates the success of their startup ecosystem.
Jim Steyer
Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media
Jim has spent more than 20 years as one of the most respected experts and entrepreneurs on issues related to children’s policy and media in the United States. As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families. Prior to founding Common Sense, Jim was Chairman and CEO of JP Kids, a respected family media company. Before that, he served as President of Children Now, a leading national advocacy and media organization for children, which he founded in 1988. Jim began his career as an elementary school teacher and then became a public interest lawyer. He served as a law clerk for the California Supreme Court, as a deputy district attorney, and as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In addition to his duties at Common Sense, Jim teaches popular courses on civil rights, civil liberties, and children’s issues at Stanford University, where he has taught for the past 22 years in the School of Education and Department of Political Science. During that period, he has received a number of Stanford’s highest teaching honors. Jim is also the author of the widely acclaimed book The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children, which draws upon his extensive experience as a leading child advocate, educational media expert, and dad. Over the past decade, Jim has appeared regularly on a variety of national television and radio programs, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah, CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, and Larry King. He hosts a regular weekly segment, “Kids and the Media,” on CBS-5 TV in San Francisco, and his work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Jim grew up in New York City and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. Jim is the father of four children and lives with his family in the Bay Area.
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About Common Sense Media: Common Sense Media provides information and education to help kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology.
Matthew Tamayo-Rios
CEO of OpenLattice
Matthew Tamayo is the founder and CEO of OpenLattice. Prior to this, Matthew founded Kryptnostic, a web services platform that enables end-to-end encrypted processing of data in the cloud.
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About OpenLattice: We support public servants making more informed decisions using integrated data.
Ahmad Wani
Chief Executive Officer & Co Founder of One Concern
Ahmad Wani is an earthquake researcher by training. He was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top thirty innovators, in its Forbes 30 under 30 edition in January 2016. Earlier in his career, he performed structural design and risk analysis for power plants for the Central Government of India. Ahmad holds a graduate degree in Structural and Earthquake Engineering from Stanford University.
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About One Concern: One Concern provides a resilience-as-a-service solution that helps customers uncover, prepare for, and mitigate unpredictable disaster risk.
Henry D. Fahman
Chairman and CEO of PHI Group
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About PHI Group: PHI Group, Inc. is a U.S. publicly traded company (trading symbol: PHIL) primarily focusing on energy and natural resources.
Paola Santana
Founder and CEO of GLASS
Paola Santana is a lawyer, public procurement expert and tech entrepreneur creating the world’s next political system after democracy. She’s the founder and CEO of Social Glass, a software ecosystem using Artificial Intelligence to power high-performing governments. Previously, she co-founded Matternet, a Silicon Valley company pioneering drone logistics networks. Under her leadership, Matternet engaged with The White House, US Congress, FAA, and NASA to enact the first drone regulation in the United States in 2016, and became the world’s first drone delivery platform authorized for permanent operations over a populated city in 2017. She co-established the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court, and worked at the National Elections Court coordinating the Elections Litigation Chamber. She has also collaborated with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the OECD, developing striking public infrastructure projects and strategic partnerships integrating exponential technologies. She’s best known for her ability to create things from scratch at the intersection of the public, private and regulatory domains, and for her track record introducing cutting-edge technologies into highly-regulated markets. Her most recent experience includes co-drafting the public-private partnership enabling the first multi-state Hyperloop system in the United States. A Fulbright scholar and graduate from George Washington, Georgetown and Singularity University, she’s been featured as CNET Top 20 Latin in Tech, Forbes Top 50 Women of Power in Central America and the Dominican Republic, LinkedIn Top 10 Professionals Under 35 in Enterprise Tech, and served as Lead of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Group, and appointed member of the first FAA Drone Advisory Committee. She’s currently Faculty at Singularity University, and Mentor for the Social Entrepreneurship Labs Incubator at Stanford University and Google AI.
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About GLASS: a Silicon Valley e-Commerce startup revolutionizing how governments buy
Sedale Turbovsky
CEO and Founder of OpenGrants
Sedale Turbovsky’s career has been focused on startups, and innovation. As an Independent business consultant and strategic business development expert, Sedale specializes in fundraising, leadership, project management, program management, and data analysis. He is passionate about economic empowerment, conservation, and sustainability. Sedale attended Sacramento State University, where his studies focused on economics, political science, and international development. After an extended gap year, he pursued a career as an international adventure guide working in Argentina, Chile and various counties in Europe for five years. During this time he launched a startup studio, Guerrilla Digital. Guerrilla Digital is a collection of leaders, designers and builders focused on enabling large-scale societal improvements. Their mission is to establish and grow sustainable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems and inefficiencies by bringing cutting-edge technology to late-adopting industries. Guerrilla Digital partners with investors, advisors and government leaders to help entrepreneurs build out product concepts, test business models, find market fit, connect with difficult-to-reach public/private networks, and achieve the discipline required for growth. In 2012 Sedale and his team were engaged to launch carbonBLU, a machine learning SaaS product for the transportation sector, backed by an emissions testing technology. Sedale lead the team to raise $500k in seed capital while supporting day to day operations and product development. While at carobnBLU Sedale built at 2.5M dollar pipeline in government sales, won the people choice award of the CleanTech Open Accelerator and was accepted into and completed Impact Venture Capital’s accelerator program. In 2018, Sedale served as CEO of carbonBLU for a year, eventually exiting with the Guerrilla Digital team to start OpenGrants, a SaaS company focused on connecting startups to non-dilutive capital. As a founder of OpenGrants, Sedale helped source the founding team, secured pre-seed and seed capital, while engaging strategic partners like AWS and Momentum.
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About OpenGrants: The easy way to win grants
Helmy El-Mangoury
CEO of Certifix Live Scan
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About Certifix Live Scan, PostScan Mail: With our advanced fingerprinting system we are able to provide applicants with a seamless and convenient fingerprinting experience.
Mark Vorsatz
Managing Director and CEO of Andersen Tax
Mark Vorsatz is Managing Director and CEO of Andersen Tax. He Co-Founded the firm under the name WTAS in 2002 and spearheaded the firm’s name change, effective September 2, 2014. Mark works exclusively with individuals in the design and implementation of customized income tax and estate planning solutions. His client base is limited to founders and/or substantial shareholders of public companies, owners of closely held businesses, and high net worth family groups. He focuses on preserving wealth for multi-generational families. Mark has over 35 years of experience in tax practice. Before joining Andersen Tax, he was a Partner at Arthur Andersen from 1987 to 2002. Mark served on the firmwide Family Wealth Planning Team from 1982 to 2002 and led the firm’s Private Client Service Group in San Francisco. He also served as Managing Partner and Tax Division Head of Arthur Andersen’s San Jose office from 1990 to 1994.
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About Andersen Tax: Andersen Tax provides a range of tax, valuation, financial advisory, and related consulting services to individual and commercial clients.
Frank F. Khulusi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PCM
Frank F. Khulusi is one of our co-founders and has served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since our inception in 1987, served as our President from our inception in 1987 until July 1999, and again from March 2001 to March 2012. Mr. Khulusi attended the University of Southern California. Mr. Khulusi’s areas of relevant experience, qualifications, attributes or skills include extensive knowledge of the IT direct marketing and solutions industries, over 20 years of experience in leadership and growth of our company, extensive operations and financial experience, and experience with public company corporate governance.
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About PCM: PCM is a direct marketer of technology products, services, and solutions to businesses, government, educational institutions, and more.
Gary Kovacs
CEO of Accela
Gary Kovacs is the CEO of AVG Technologies with the responsibility for leading the overall direction of the organization. Prior to joining AVG, Gary was the CEO of Mozilla and held senior leadership roles as Senior VP of Markets, Solutions & Products at Sybase (through its acquisition by SAP earlier this year), as General Manager and VP of Mobile & Devices at Adobe and as VP of Product Marketing at Macromedia (through its acquisition by Adobe). Previously, he led the successful creation and growth of Zi Corporation, a company specializing in embedded software and services for mobile and consumer devices. Prior to Zi Corporation, Gary spent 10 years at IBM in leadership positions in product management, sales, marketing and operations within the global software division. He holds a bachelor of commerce and an MBA with distinction, from the University of Calgary.
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About Accela: Accela provides market-leading solutions that help governments to modernize and build thriving communities.
George Shen
Chairman & CEO of Earthgen Biofuel
Mr. Shen brings extensive international business experience to his position as Chairman and CEO of EarthGen BioFuel. George has worked in developing countries most of his business life and has extensive international business experience. He has held senior management positions for companies operating in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Columbia, Nicaragua, and Peru. George believes that in international business to achieve long term operating success, it is important to gain full understanding of the local custom and culture and build an operating model that produces profits but also assists in the advancement of local economies as well as, supporting the company’s workers and their communities. Mr. Shen’s has an extensive international business career e as the turn around manager for a textile manufacturing company in the Republic of South Africa then under Apartheid. George also has worked for, and or represented some of the largest corporations in America and Asia, including Bank of America, Dean Witter Reynolds (now Morgan Stanley), Clarion Communication (now part of Qwest) in Asia as the President of Asian Operations, and Realforce Energy Group. Mr. Shen was also a senior advisor and representative of Davis Petroleum for a number of international transaction and International Tobacco Group (China). Mr. Shen served as a senior advisor for business development for Davis Petroleum in China and in Latin America. During his tenure with the Davis Group of companies he negotiated a number of international contracts and acquisitions. The Davis business interests included oil and gas operations in Colorado, Texas and Asia. Additional Davis owned 20th Century Fox, Pebble Beach Golf Resorts, the Beverly Hills Hotel among other icon business properties. Mr. Shen is often interviewed as an expert in on China topics ranging from politics, economics and business law by local radio and television stations, George is active in many community based service organizations Mr. Shen has served as an officer or director of a number of organizations and companies, he was a member of the US Department of Commerce Advisory Committee on Environment and Energy. He also served on the Board of Director of Justiceville (in support of temporarily homeless victims). Mr. Shen received a JD degree from Northwestern California School of Law. George was born in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC in 1956, and moved to the United States with his family in 1972, he is now residing in the San Gabriel Valley area of the Los Angeles county California, with his wife Jillian. George served in the US Marine Corps from 1979 to 1983 and volunteered to go back to the California National Guard post the events of 9/11. Mr. Shen received his BS degree in Business Economics from Chapman University while serving in the US Marine Corps. He later earned an MBA degree from Central China Normal University with a special thesis on Chinese Banking Reform. George is currently enrolled at China Central University for Finance and Economics the number one graduate business school to be a visiting instructor and to continue building his own insights into the Chinese economy and to create face-to-face relationships with senior banking and business leaders. Earthgen Biofuel is an international agriculture company creating products used in manufacturing and transportation from renewable resource non-food crops. The Company is growing Castor Beans in Laos and Vietnam and marketing the Castor Bean seed harvest to processors that extract the castor seed oil, which is high demand in world markets. There are over 700 main products and close to 3,000 derivate products that utilize castor seed oil.
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About Earthgen Biofuel: Earthgen Biofuel is an agribusiness who grow non-food agricultural products used in the manufacture of biofuel.
Michael O’Dwyer
Founder & CEO of SwiftComply
Michael O’Dwyer, our CEO, started his working life as an engineer setting up a fat, oil and grease regulatory program for food businesses in Dublin. It was then that he saw how overly-paper based, time consuming and inefficient this process was. Witnessing first-hand how the regulatory system frustrated both restaurant owners and the enforcing city officials, he looked for a technology that could digitize the process and improve fractious relationships. There was none, so he set about building it himself. The result was SwiftComply, the world’s first real-time business-friendly restaurant compliance platform.
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About SwiftComply, SwiftComply: SwiftComply helps water authorities protect human health and the environment
Mariel Reed
Cofounder and CEO of CoProcure
Cofounder of CoProcure. Previously with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, where I scaled Startup in Residence, a procurement program connecting hundreds of startups and tens of local governments across the country. Early employee at Coursera, where I 5x’d our growth in Asia. Community organizer, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Georgetown SFS grad.
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About CoProcure: CoProcure makes it easy for public agencies to save time and money by purchasing together.
Drew Jorgenson
CEO of ActiveBidder
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About ActiveBidder: Bidding and Procurement Platform for Local Governments
Marya Bangee
Founder and CEO of SILA Consulting
Marya Bangee is the Founder and CEO of SILA, a social impact firm that brings stakeholders from different sectors together on projects that drive social change. Through SILA, she currently serves as Director of Programming for Harness, an organization founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities in popular culture.
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About SILA Consulting: SILA works to strengthen the ecosystem of social impact by fostering relationships.
Pete Biggam
CEO of Blacksite.Solutions
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About Blacksite.Solutions, Founder Institute, HUBVERY: Blacksite Solutions, Inc. provides complete data security using zero trust polices and advaned threat detection and mitigation softwares.
Johanna Maska
CEO of Global Situation Room
Johanna Maska is CEO of Global Situation Room and a former White House Aide to President Barack Obama. Maska was Director of Press Advance for President Obama, managing President Obama’s public image on trips for eight years across the United States and to 40 countries including extended tours of Asia, South America, Europe and Africa. She played an important role on both successful Presidential elections, starting in Iowa in 2007 and concluding in early 2015. Prior to that Maska worked in politics in Iowa and Kansas. Maska moved to Los Angeles as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Los Angeles Times, she advises technology companies, teaches at USC, and was a Fellow at the Dole Institute for Politics at the University of Kansas.
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About Global Situation Room: Global Situation Room is a consulting firm built on the experience of former American ambassadors and senior government officials.
Ray Kallmeyer
CEO of Enklu
Ray Kallmeyer is the CEO at Enklu.
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About Enklu: Enklu is a low-code SaaS platform which allows 3D designers to build for the web, mobile, and AR/VR devices for education and entertainment.
Noam Maital
CEO of Waycare
Noam Maital is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Waycare Technologies. Prior to WayCare, Noam led global strategy projects in technology implementation, growth strategy, and financial due diligence. Noam holds a BSc, Summa Cum Laude, from Babson College with a dual degree in Economics and Strategic Management. Prior to his studies, Noam served as a First Sergeant in the Israeli Special Forces.
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About Waycare: WayCare optimizes traffic management systems leveraging predictive analytics, and enables two way vehicle to city communication.
Janice Lin
Founder and CEO of Strategen Consulting
Janice Lin is the Founder and CEO of Strategen Consulting. She brings more than two decades of experience in clean energy strategy, market development, and corporate strategy to Strategen. During this time she has advised a diverse range of clients including renewable energy equipment manufacturers and service providers, large corporations diversifying into clean energy, and real estate developers building sustainable communities. In 2014 Janice co-founded the Global Energy Storage Alliance (GESA), an international non-profit organization, and currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Executive Committee. Prior to that Janice co-founded the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA) in 2009, and remains Executive Director. Janice has also serve on the Electricity Advisory Council of the US Department of Energy, the Board of Advisors for the Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) and the Energy Storage Committee of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Janice is also a Member of the Advisory Council of the German American Chamber of Commerce, the UCSD Strategic Energy Initiatives Advisory Council, and Co-Founder and Chair of the annual Energy Storage North America (ESNA) conference. Prior to founding Strategen in 2005, Janice held several senior management positions with PowerLight Corporation (now SunPower Corporation), including Vice President of Product Strategy and Vice President of Business Development. During her tenure at PowerLight, Janice led initiatives in product and new market strategies, business development, regulatory affairs, strategic partnerships, investor relations, and customer finance. Janice holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BS from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts and Sciences. She is the winner of ESA’s 2013 Phil Symons Energy Storage Award, and NAATBATT’s 2014 Market Development Award.
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About Energy Storage North America and Expo, Green Hydrogen Coalition, Strategen Consulting: Strategen provides insight to global corporations, utilities and public sector leaders.
Peter Ostrow
President & CEO of Technical Communities
CEO at Technical Communities, Inc.
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About Technical Communities, TestMart: Technical Communities, Inc. is the holding company of TestMart and TCI Marketing Services that help technology companies market and sell.
James Alfano
Founder and CEO of Govlaunch
Prior to Govlaunch, James co-founded EfficientGov, a local government-focused media company which was acquired by Praetorian Digital in 2014. Before that, he spent six years at the Washington D.C.-based consulting firm Marlowe & Company helping over 50 cities and counties secure grant funding and navigate federal regulatory issues. James is a native Washingtonian and a graduate from Dartmouth College.
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About Govlaunch: Govlaunch is the the wiki for local government innovation®
Tripp Purvis
CEO & Co-founder of StormQuant
A senior executive who has a consistent record of exceeding revenue objectives; building and leading teams and launching new projects in global markets. An influential global leader and change agent; excellent motivational skills to build and sustain forward growth momentum while driving peak individual performance from team members. Global span, P&L management experience, extensive international travel and sales experience building new businesses in emerging markets. Successful corporate development background; completed four successful acquisitions and integrations: RES Software (Ivanti 07-05-2018), Platform Computing (IBM 10-11-2011), V-SEPT (ADP 04-15-2011), Net6 (Citrix Systems 11-23-2004.) A major contributor, a builder of strong teams, a top producer who is highly motivated and who quickly earns the respect and loyalty of customers, business associates, and peers.
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About StormQuant: SaaS – Weather Meets Big Data
Lori Bonn
President/CEO of The World We Want Foundation
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About The World We Want Foundation: To promote and support Young Global Citizens making positive social change in their communities and around the globe.
Gregory G. Curtin
Founder & CEO of CivicConnect
Gregory C. Curtin, PhD, JD, founder and CEO of Civic Resource Group International, pioneered the use of technology and data to transform the public sector, and is now regarded as a revolutionary technology entrepreneur. Having spent many years as a public school teacher, a professor at the University of Southern California and a municipal government attorney, Dr. Curtin brings deep knowledge and passion for the public sector to his vision for digital governance. Since its inception in 2000, he has led CRG to its place as a prominent provider of innovative technology solutions for the public sector. Dr. Curtin is a leading proponent of and educator around smart cities, smart citizens and smart governance. His credentials as a subject matter expert and early influencer of the concept of digital government include his 10-year tenure at the United Nations Global E-Government Survey and Report as the principle investigator and one of its senior contributors. He also founded and directed the E-Governance Collaborative Program at the University of Southern California Bedrosian Center, formed to conduct digital government research and facilitate collaboration among government, academia and the private sector around the world. Dr. Curtin is accredited for his work as a Senior Fellow at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and serves as a Charter Member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government. He was among the winners of the first Vision Award from the WEF for delivering breakthrough ideas and high impact collaborative action in the area of technology and government. From his service as a Senior Fellow with Good Governance International to maintaining an active role as a political and government consultant, Dr. Curtin remains a prominent contributor to the global smart cities movement. Authoring work throughout the evolution of smart cities, Dr. Curtin’s Free the Data: E-Governance for Megaregions covered early stages of the open data/big data movement. He published The World of E-Government, started the Journal of E-Government peer-review, and is the author and Editor-in-Chief of the Future of Government Blog. Dr. Curtin has brought focus to digital governance and smart cities through research, writing and speaking, and continues to lead CRG to the forefront of public sector technology solutions providers. Publication Highlights: • “Free the Data,” most recently published in the Journal of Public Works Management. • Principal investigator and contributing author for the ongoing series: United Nations Global E-Government Readiness Survey and Report (2002-2010). • Principal investigator and team lead working directly with the newly appointed Chief Information Officer for the State of California to prepare a foundational “Telecommunications/IT Vision” for the State of California. • Served as a facilitator for and contributor to the 2007-2008 symposium paper “Government in the Age of YouTube,” published by the National Electronic Coordinating Council (EC3). • Authored the official E-Government section of the Encyclopedia of Political Communications (Sage Publications), rated a top 10-reference guide by the American Association of Librarians.
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About CivicConnect: Civic Connect develops and distributes cloud-based technology solutions for civic organizations.
Danielle DeRuiter-Williams
CEO & Head of Growth and Expansion of The Justice Collective
Danielle DeRuiter-Williams, MBA, MA, MURP is a social change strategist and CEO of The Justice Collective. She is committed to organizational transformation that unapologetically centers race and class equity in every context. A gifted trainer and facilitator Danielle brings both humor and vulnerability to her engagements. With clients, Danielle works closely to surface underlying barriers to change and to build the capacity of clients to go beyond what they perceive to be possible to do what is necessary to achieve their equity goals. While leading TJC, Danielle founded and led the development of the San Francisco Planning Department’s first Racial and Ethnic Equity Initiative which includes the creation and implementation of a comprehensive organizational strategy that identifies and leverages opportunities to advance racial equity. Danielle holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Grand Valley State University, Master’s Degrees from the University of California Los Angeles in both Urban and Regional Planning and Afro-American Studies and an MBA from Mills College with a concentration in Equitable Organizational Development and Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
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About The Justice Collective: The Justice Collective is equal parts strategic initiative consulting, professional development, and online community hub.
Jonathan Humfrey
Chief Executive Officer of VerticalChange
Jonathan Humfrey’s twelve years of software industry experience have focused on leading product and business development. At Mosaic Network he worked with a team deploying early web based data systems for multi-site public health initiatives, adding new state and federal agencies as clients. At ELC, a leading application developer, he oversaw a period of significant growth – working with Fortune 500 media, technology, and healthcare companies. Jonathan has a research background in human computer interaction and a passion for improving the social sector through technology.
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About VerticalChange: VerticalChange is an enterprise SaaS product that enables its users to collaborate and input, manage, and analyze social services data.
Catherine Geanuracos
Co-founder & CEO of CityGrows
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About CityGrows: CityGrows is affordable, no-code workflow automation SaaS software for local government permitting and licensing.
Amit Thakkar
Founder & CEO of LawMaker
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About LawMaker: LawMaker empowers Americans to propose new laws, build coalitions, and engage their elected officials to advocate for change.
Marci Harris
Founder & CEO of POPVOX
Marci Harris is the Founder & CEO at POPVOX.
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About POPVOX: POPVOX verifies, aggregates, and simplifies communication with Congress on an open, trusted and nonpartisan common ground.
Rey Faustino
Founder & CEO of One Degree
Rey Faustino is the Chief Strategy & Impact Officer at Alluma.
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About Alluma, One Degree: One Degree is a nonprofit technology-driven organization that is revolutionizing the way low-income families access community resources.
Luke Davis
Founder & CEO of PlaceAVote.com
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About PlaceAVote.com: PlaceAVote is a secure, non-partisan forum that lets users read, debate, and vote on any bill before congress.
John Chen
President and CEO of Camvi Technologies
John is the co-founder and President of Camvi. Prior to Camvi, John was Assistant General Counsel at Yahoo! Inc. Before joining Yahoo!, John was the co-founder of SageN Research, a data analytics company for proteomics research. John is a patent attorney in California and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
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About Camvi Technologies: Camvi Technologies is an Artificial Intelligence company specializing in face recognition and biometrics technologies.
Jeffrey Minushkin
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Priva Security Corporation
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About Priva Security Corporation: Priva Security develops authentication technologies and transaction processing solutions for government organizations and consumer markets.
Reed Duecy Gibbs
CEO of NextRequest
Reed Duecy-Gibbs is the Chief Operating Officer and leads product design and business development for NextRequest. He focuses on making applications that are simple, beautiful, and easy to use. Prior to NextRequest, Reed was a fellow with Code for America and before that he was a Fulbright Scholar working on projects to make urban development information more accesible in Istanbul. In his free time he likes running, making things with his hands, and a good IPA. Reed holds a Masters degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Colorado College.
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About NextRequest: NextRequest makes public records requests friendlier for the public and easier for governments.
David L. Lokken
CEO of Hawker Pacific Aerospace
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About Hawker Pacific Aerospace: Hawker Pacific repairs and overhauls aircraft and helicopter landing gear
Oscar Gonzalez
Founder & CEO of BluAgent Technologies
Oscar Gonzalez is the Founder and CEO of BluAgent Technologies.
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About BluAgent Technologies: BluAgent Technologies is a fully integrated SaaS platform that streamlines and simplify the entire safety and compliance process.
Nicole àBeckett
Co-Founder & CEO of SameSide
Nicole is a Co-Founder & CEO at SameSide.
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About SameSide: SameSide is an online platform connecting the millions of events and gatherings that happen every day to a cause.
Catherine Collinson
CEO & President of Transamerica Center for Health Studies
Catherine Collinson is Board of Trustees at California Science Center.
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About Transamerica Center for Health Studies: TCHS is dedicated to identifying, researching, and analyzing the most relevant health care issues facing consumers.
Joe Wallace
CEO,Chief Innovation Officer & Managing Director of CViHub of Coachella Valley Economic Partnership
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About Coachella Valley Economic Partnership: Coachella Valley Economic Partnership is a regional economic development organization, supported by public and private investment.
Giovanni Rodriguez
CEO of SocialxDesign
CEO of SocialxDesign.
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About SocialxDesign: SocialxDesign is an independent strategy consulting firm focused on helping businesses, government agencies and NGOs.
