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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 United States based CEO’ operating in the GovTech 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.
Zac Bookman
Co-Founder & CEO of OpenGov
Zac is the Co-Founder and CEO of OpenGov – the leading Budgeting and Performance company powering more effective and accountable government. Before OpenGov, he served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force Shafafiyat (Transparency) – an Anticorruption task force at the International Security Assistance Forces headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He previously practiced trial litigation at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, where I represented Silicon Valley and Fortune 500 clients in contract, trade secret, white-collar criminal, and patent matters. He was a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico, where he studied transparency through the lens of Mexico’s Freedom of Information Act. Zac holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. from the University of Maryland. He studied corruption and transparency in Mexico on a Fulbright Fellowship and later served for six months on the Anticorruption Task Force at the International Security Assistance Forces headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zac serves on the board of CACS.org and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He has summited Denali in Alaska, run the Marine Corps marathon, and taught American Government at San Quentin Prison.
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About OpenGov, OpenGov: OpenGov is the leader in modern cloud software for our nation’s cities, counties, and state agencies.
Tomer Kagan
Co-founder & CEO of Merit
Tomer Kagan is the CEO and Co-founder of Merit. Merit’s verified identity platform brings visibility, liquidity, and trust to people-data, giving organizations the clarity to make better-informed decisions, engage with individuals effectively, and pursue their mission efficiently. Merit works with trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems in sectors such as workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, and defense readiness. Passionate about improving people’s lives using science and technology, Kagan has served on the board of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and worked with the National Science Foundation’s futurist project. He has also spoken at the World Economic Forum, Mobile World Congress, and other premier events, and has been named one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30.” He holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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About Merit: Merit develops a verified identity platform to help organizations in managing personnel data.
Ted Price
Co-Founder & CEO of GovInvest
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About GovInvest: GovInvest helps governments visualize and understand complex actuarial data.
Tim Hwang
Co-Founder & CEO of FiscalNote
Tim Hwang is a big data entrepreneur and Senior Advisor for Government Innovation. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of FiscalNote, using artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. He also works as an active venture capitalist/angel investor, advising in the areas of biotechnology and robotics, and as an author of the upcoming book “In Between Dreams: How Youth Unemployment Catalyzed a Global Entrepreneurship Movement”. Featured in Forbes, TIME, Fox, and the Washington Post and a Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Winner, Tim has previously served as the President of the 750,000 member National Youth Association, launching its financial services arm and pushing the agenda of young Americans in healthcare, education, and energy. He also served as the founder of Articulance Consulting Group helping to launch a data analytics platform for small restaurants and Operation Fly. Inc., representative at Square working with small businesses in payments analytics, member of the MCPS Board of Education pushing data-based decision making to analyze education in a large urban district of over 150,000 students, and Field Organizer for the Obama for America ’08 campaign using data in GOTV and grassroots organizing. He serves on the Boards of Jumpstart Maryland (Chair), State Farm YAB, the Commission on Juvenile Justice, among many others.
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About Channel Cross Border, FiscalNote, The World Economic Forum: FiscalNote uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver predictive analytics on government information to determine its impact.
Dan Doctoroff
Founder & CEO of Sidewalk Labs
Dan Doctoroff is one of the world’s leading urban visionaries and a champion of leveraging technology and data for social change. As the CEO of Bloomberg LP, the leading provider of financial information, Dan led the company through the financial crisis, nearly doubled company revenue in seven years, diversified into new products and markets and dramatically increased the size and influence of its news organization. Prior to Bloomberg, Dan led a wholesale reimagining of New York City’s physical and economic landscape as the City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding. He spearheaded the effort to revive New York after the attacks of 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy which included the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history; the largest affordable housing program ever launched by an American city; and the creation of PlaNYC, New York’s pathbreaking sustainability plan, which has become a model for integrated urban planning around the world. Dan was previously a Managing Partner at Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm.
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About Sidewalk Labs: Sidewalk Labs works with cities to build products that address urban problems.
Michael Jansen
Chairman, Founder & CEO of Cityzenith
Michael Jansen is a sought after Smart City industry leader and public speaker with numerous awards and accolades to his credit, and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and myriads of business, technology, and AEC publications worldwide, including Architectural Record, ENR, Business Week, Domus, Contract Magazine, et. al. In 2007, Michael was awarded Building Design + Construction Magazine’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award honoring top CEOs in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry under the age of 40. An impassioned architect, urbanist, and entrepreneur, Michael founded Satellier in 2004, a CAD and BIM production services company backed by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Under his leadership, in just four years Satellier experienced explosive growth from a team size of 10 to over 450 and fundamentally changed the way AEC firms deliver services. In 2010, Michael assumed the helm of Cityzenith to pursue his dream of transforming life in cities all over the world. Michael was educated as an architect at Yale and Cambridge; earned a Fulbright scholarship; studied art and architecture in China and India; speaks four languages and has traveled to more than 80 countries; designs high-end, exotic furniture, and is an avid guitar player.
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About Cityzenith: Cityzenith is a technology startup that provides data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities.
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.
Felicia Curcuru
Co-Founder and CEO of Binti
Felicia Curcuru is the Co-founder and CEO of [Binti](/organization/binti). Felicia was previously User Experience at [FundersClub](/organization/fundersclub). Prior to that, she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where she worked for energy and technology clients in the US, Asia and Europe. Felicia also brings finance experience from her work in private equity and microfinance. Felicia started her first business in college, selling coconut jewelry out of her dorm room. She has a passion for travel and has lived in 7 countries, speaks 3 languages. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Binti: Tech company focused on improving the child welfare system with the goal of helping every child have a safe, loving, and stable family.
Abhay Gupta
Founder & CEO of Bidgely
Abhay Gupta founded Bidgely with the mission to accomplish energy efficiency at a massive scale. He’s worked at a combination of energy and technology companies including Grid Net, Echelon and Sun Microsystems. He holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, M.S. from University of Southern California and MBA from Santa Clara University. Abhay is passionate about music and travel!
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Chajianl Shivakumar
CEO and Co-Founder of Urban Engines
Shiva is the CEO and Co-Founder of Urban Engines. Prior to Urban Engines, from 2001 through 2010, Shiva was a Vice President and Distinguished Entrepreneur at Google, helping to build AdSense, Search Appliances, Cloud Apps, and research and development centers across the world. With a deep interest in open data, Shiva created Sitemaps.org to surface Web data with an industry-first collaboration between Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Shiva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Arthur Samuel Best Thesis Award.
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About Urban Engines: Urban Engines combines big data and spatial analytics to improve urban mobility.
Aviram Jenik
Founder & CEO of Beyond Security
Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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About 408 Ventures, Appvance.ai, ArcusTeam, Beyond Security, Chartmetric, Eclypsium, FROGED, Metadata, MixerBox, Primer Sazze Partners, VisualCamp: Beyond Security is developing automated security testing technologies.
Shane Evangelist
CEO of NEOGOV
Shane Evangelist is the Chief Executive Officer of NEOGOV, the leading provider of Talent Management software for government and higher education. NEOGOV’s SaaS solution includes applicant tracking, onboarding, performance management and learning management. Prior to joining NEOGOV, Shane was the CEO of U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc, one of the largest online provider of aftermarket auto parts and accessories. Shane held multiple positions at Blockbuster Inc. including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Blockbuster Online where he led the creation and launch of Blockbuster’s online movie rental service and was the Vice President of Strategic Planning.
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About JC Whitney, NEOGOV: NEOGOV is the market and technology leader in on-demand human resources software for the public sector.
Shakeia Kegler
Founder and CEO of GovLia
Founder of GovLia.
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About Camelback Ventures, Code To Eat, Envolve Entrepreneurship, GovLia, OPERATION120: GovLia simplifies procurement and certification processes for diverse businesses to increase participation and foster economic growth.
Chris Carson
CEO & Co-Founder of Hayden AI
Chris Carson, is a global strategy, innovation, venture development expert, and thought-leader for disruptive and digital innovation. Chris cultivated his expertise over 20 years, working in various operations and engineering roles with technology-driven multinationals, startups, and consultancies, and now serves as the CEO of Hayden AI, an artificial intelligence technology company and smart city solutions provider. Chris has a strong technical background in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), as well as a decade of experience in leading globally distributed engineering teams and turning innovation into material business impact. Chris is a passionate leader who is experienced in driving growth through innovation and strong execution, and a relentless champion of Design Thinking and Lean Startup, who believes in the power of co-creation.
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About Hayden AI: World’s first autonomous traffic management platform
Nikola Mrvaljevic
CEO and Co-Founder of STRIVE
Nikola Mrvaljevic is the CEO and Co-Founder of Strive Tech.
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About STRIVE: STRIVE is the only data platform proven to optimize muscle performance for elite athletes and teams.
John Thomson
Founder & CEO of PayIt
John founded PayIt after waiting in line to renew his license at the DMV. He knew a smarter digital government experience was possible and PayIt was born. John was recently recognized as an industry leader in Government IT by StateScoop. Previously, John served as CEO of an innovative SaaS-based marketing technology company serving some of the biggest names on the Fortune500. John’s career began with roles across Engineering, Product Strategy, and Sales at Cerner Corporation and EMC.
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About PayIt: PayIt simplifies doing business with state, local, and federal government through its mobile transaction and payment platform.
Imran Khoja
Co-Founder & CEO of Just Appraised
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About Just Appraised: Just Appraised uses AI to drive automation for local government assessors, helping them provide fair and equitable assessments to taxpayers.
Laura Schewel
Founder and CEO of StreetLight Data
Laura, founder and Chief Executive Officer, is a leading advocate and researcher in advanced transportation, with particular expertise in transportation systems, sustainability and safety, and vehicle/system modeling and analysis. After completing degrees in engineering and comparative literature at Yale University, she worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), managing their vehicle electrification projects, including the Smart Garage Charrette and Project Get Ready. Next, Laura joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to develop planning for regulatory strategy for electric vehicles and energy storage. Laura’s work at StreetLight is an extension of her graduate studies at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in Energy Engineering, and the author of several publications about vehicle electrification and sustainable transportation. In 2013, Laura was selected as one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 and was the recipient of the International Transport Forum’s Young Researcher of the Year Award.
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About StreetLight Data: StreetLight Data is a data analytics company transforming urban planning and transportation design with the power of geospatial data.
Joe Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO of Hummingbird
Co-founder of Hummingbird. Previously consultant to IDEO.org, VP of risk & data science at Circle, senior PM at Square, and director of product marketing at Brightcove. Producer of Designers + Geeks.
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About ACAMS, Designers + Geeks, Hummingbird: Hummingbird operates as a modern platform for anti-money laundering.
Matthew Van Buskirk
Co Founder and Co-CEO of Hummingbird
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About Hummingbird: Hummingbird operates as a modern platform for anti-money laundering.
Joel Mahoney
Co-Founder & CEO of OpenCounter
Joel is a civic technologist and entrepreneur. He was an inaugural fellow at Code for America, and served as a technical advisor to the organization. Before Code for America, Joel founded companies in the health and hospitality sectors. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. He won the International Design for Experience Award for his work with the City of Boston, and was one of GovTech Magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in 2012. Joel now serves as CEO at OpenCounter.com, which builds modern permitting and licensing software for local governments.
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About OpenCounter: OpenCounter combines Silicon Valley and public-sector talent to create best-of-class products for modern governments.
Joe Distefano
Co-Founder & CEO of UrbanFootprint
Joe is Principal and Co-Founder of Calthorpe Analytics. He leverages 20 years of experience in land use and transportation planning in leading the development and deployment of the RapidFire and UrbanFootprint modeling platforms, new models and software tools that bring critical information to land use planning decisions, energy and water resource choices, and the environmental, public health, and social equity challenges of their times.
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About UrbanFootprint: Urban, climate & community resilience data platform providing critical intelligence to institutions investing in the world’s infrastructure
John Bertrand
CEO and Co-Founder of Daupler
John Bertrand is the CEO and Co-founder of Daupler.
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About Daupler: Daupler simplifies the way people communicate with local government and utilities.
Philip Mezey
CEO of Itron
Philip Mezey was appointed president and chief executive officer and named to Itron’s board of directors on January 1, 2013. Mezey has served the company in several capacities during his career at Itron, most recently as chief operating officer for Itron’s global Energy segment, with responsibility for the operations of Itron’s electricity and gas businesses around the world. He also previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer — Itron North America, group vice president and general manager, as well as senior vice president for Software Solutions. Upon Itron’s acquisition of Silicon Energy in 2003, Mezey joined the company as managing director of Software Development for Itron’s Energy Management Solutions group. Prior to joining Silicon Energy in 2000 as vice president, Software Development, Mezey was a founding member and served 12 years with Indus, a provider of integrated asset and customer management software. Mezey earned his BA degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Itron: Itron is a technology company that offers products and services on energy and water resource management.
Seyi Fabode
Co-Founder and CEO of Varuna
Seyi Fabode MD at VestedWorld.com, Asha Labs Inc. Formerly SparkCognition.com. Prior to this he was the VP of Innovation for the Clean Energy Trust and was CEO/Co-founder of Power2Switch acquired by Choose Energy (KPCB portfolio company). Mr Fabode’s work focuses on tech, energy and the impact on consumers.
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About Omega Grid, Varuna: Varuna provides alerts, recommendations, and predictions to help water utility leaders to effectively manage a water system.
Ralph A. Clark
President & CEO of ShotSpotter
Ralph A. Clark is the Chief Executive Officer and President of SST Inc. (formerly ShotSpotter).
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About ShotSpotter: ShotSpotter is a leader in precision policing technology enabling law enforcement to effectively respond to, investigate and deter crime.
Andy Dearing
CEO of Boundless Spatial
Andy Dearing is the President of Spatial STL Advisors. He also serves as the lead for the GeoFutures Initiative, a regional initiative under Greater St. Louis Inc. Prior to Spatial STL Advisors and GeoFutures, he served as the CEO of Boundless Spatial, a leading startup in the geospatial industry, which was acquired by Planet Labs, Inc in 2019. He has worked as a leader in the geospatial industry for almost 20 years. Andy serves as an advisor at Saint Louis University’s Geospatial Institute, Co-Chair for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s St. Louis Area Working Group, Board Member for the Gateway Global American Youth and Business Alliance Academies Inc. (AYBAA) and Dynamo Metrics. He earned his MBA from Maryville University, and holds Bachelors of Science in Aviation Management and Aviation Science from Saint Louis University. Andy resides in Missouri with his wife and four kids, where he enjoys hiking, fishing, and woodworking – when is he is not out camping with his son’s Boy Scout troop.
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About Boundless Spatial, Cultivation Capital: Boundless is a provider of open source product support, training, and core development to meet geospatial requirements.
David Richmond
CEO of Comcate
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About Comcate: Comcate develops customer service software solutions for public agencies.
Wa’il Ashshowwaf
Founder & CEO of Reyets: Social Justice Network
Wa’il has an extensive professional career across a range of industries and geographies including roles at Pepsi, Walt Disney World, HSBC, and Rooam Inc., with experience both domestically and abroad. Having spent more than 15 years in financial services, Wa’il now oversees Unstuck Labs business operations, including product development for Reyets, and Fotomo. Leading marketing, partnerships, sales, finance, and business development strategy. Experience In addition to his primary role at Unstuck Labs, Wa’il serves as the Cofounder and Board Member for The Global Advisory Group, an international consulting firm that facilitates cross-border business alliances and transactions between companies in North America and the Middle East. In this role, he works closely with U.S. and international companies, including tech startups to provide strategic counsel on funding, marketing, negotiations, and business development. Prior to Unstuck Labs, Wa’il served as Vice President of International Commercial Banking at HSBC USA, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. In this position, he managed over $1 billion in assets and structured and executed private placements. In addition, he helped U.S.-based companies assess, formulate, and implement financial strategies and solutions to support operations, sales growth, compliance and facilitate expansion into international markets. Before that, he was the Regional Manager of Government and Institutional Banking at HSBC USA, with a primary focus on Embassies. During his tenure at HSBC, he built relationships with numerous government and business leaders worldwide and analyzed their organizations’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and internal business processes. Expertise Wa’il is a Board Member at the American University KOGOD School of International Business and a US State Department Professional Fellow. He is a published columnist and guest speaker at panel discussions and conferences on topics related to hospitality, business, banking, fundraising, and more. He is passionate about environmental issues and has partnered on education and research projects with the National Environmental Education Foundation, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and World Wild Life Foundation. Education He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from California State University and a Master’s degree in Business Leadership from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He went on to receive Certifications in International Compliance from the University of Manchester and Business Strategy from Harvard Business School.
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About Reyets: Social Justice Network, Unstuck Labs: Reyets empowers safer community / police interactions through mobile enabled education, resource sharing, reporting and data analysis.
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.
Rahul Sidhu
Chief Executive Officer of SPIDR Tech
Rahul Sidhu is the CEO and Co-founder at SPIDR Tech. Raul has always taken public safety, data and artificial intelligence seriously. Now, he’s found a way to do all three through SPIDR software.
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About SPIDR Tech, Techstars: SPIDR Tech is a law enforcement technology company.
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
Chris Bullock
CEO & Founder of ClearGov
Chris Bullock is the founder and CEO of ClearGov Inc., a municipal transparency and benchmarking platform. Chris has over 12 years of product management and business development experience in data analytics and benchmarking software services. Most recently Chris co-founded Sky Analytics (acquired by Huron Consulting Group), a legal spend analytics and benchmarking platform that revolutionized the legal industry. Prior to Sky Analytics, Chris spend 7 years as the Global Director of Product Development for Investor Relations & Analytics Software at NASDAQ. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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About ClearGov: ClearGov provides local governments cloud-based Budget Cycle Management software for efficient budgeting and transparent civic engagement.
Jim Gibbs
Co-Founder, CEO of Meter Feeder
Jim Gibbs is the Founder at Meter Feeder.
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About Meter Feeder: Meter Feeder provides a low cost payment and enforcement solution for small to mid-sized governments.
Chuck Hansen
Chairman and CEO of Electro Scan Inc.
Founder, Electro Scan, Hansen Analytics, Hansen Holdings,.
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About Electro Scan Inc., Hansen Analytics, LLC: Designs & markets machine-intelligent leak detection & pipeline condition assessment solution, including AI and ML to measure leaks in GPM.
Meagan Metzger
Founder and CEO of Dcode
Meagan Metzger is the founder and CEO of Dcode, a privately-owned company connecting the technology industry and government to solve critical challenges through commercial innovation. FCW recognized Meagan as one of the Federal 100 winners, and Fedscoop named her one of 2018’s Top Women in Tech for her influential work with Dcode. Prior to Dcode, Meagan worked as Chief Operating Officer of a government-focused mobile and cloud company, growing it 200% in its first two years. Meagan was also previously Chief Strategy Officer at a government-facing IT consultancy and established it as one of the fastest-growing small businesses on Washington Technology’s Fast 50 for three years in a row. Meagan has worked closely in several roles with senior leadership across DoD and civilian agencies, using her expertise in federal IT acquisitions to execute a billion-dollar IT program.
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About Dcode, The Efiia Group: Dcode is a privately-owned company connecting the tech industry and government to drive commercial innovation in the federal market.
Michael Hiles
Founder & CEO of 10XTS
Michael Hiles is CEO at 10XTS.
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About 10XTS, Cincinnati Crypto Fund, Digital Dollar Podcast, Intellig8: We make governance, risk, and compliance simple.
Francisco Torrealba
Co-Founder, CEO of BLISSWAY
Francisco Torrealba CEO and co-founder at BLISSWAY.
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About BLISSWAY: BLISSWAY provides next-generation roadside tolling infrastructure deployable in weeks and at zero upfront cost to transportation agencies
Mike Rosengarten
Founder & CEO of Camino
Mike founded Persista to make working at companies more fun and delightful. We’re building intelligent tools that connect employees to their company’s ecosystem of information. Before Persista, Mike was part of the founding team at OpenGov, a financial analytics for Government company, where he served as CTO & head of product. Before OpenGov, Mike worked at Yahoo! in the Online Advertising division developing software to increase revenue in the Display Ads team. Long ago, Mike was part of the initial team that built Invoca’s Performance Call Marketing platform. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. While there, he founded two successful internet-based software start-ups.
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About Camino: Our team at Camino is building the next generation of technology to power the permitting process.
Tristan Louis
President and CEO of Casebook PBC
Tristan Louis is an American author, entrepreneur and blogger who has run the site TNL.net since 1994. A pioneer in the Internet industry, Mr. Louis has been involved as a founding member in 6 different companies (5 to exit) and has held senior executive positions at companies like HSBC and Deutsche Bank. An early blogger, Mr. Louis is often credited as one of the creators of podcasting.
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About Casebook PBC, TNL.net: Casebook PBC is the developer of the patented, award-winning Casebook SaaS platform for Human Services.
Angelique Mercurio
Founder & CEO of EnerKnol
Angelique Mercurio is the Founder and CEO of EnerKnol, the energy policy data and analytics startup recognized by the White House as one of “America’s leading private sector innovators using open data to solve the nation’s most pressing energy challenges”. Prior to becoming a technology entrepreneur, Angelique cultivated her energy policy expertise on the commodities trading desk at Barclays Capital, where she launched US Environmental Markets research products and advised the firm’s energy traders, hedge fund and corporate clients, private equity portfolio companies, and investment banking and regulatory affairs executives firmwide, on policy impacts to energy markets. Her earlier career experience draws from a decade on Wall Street including equity analyst and investment banking roles at Citi and Lazard.
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About EnerKnol: EnerKnol provides U.S. energy policy research and data services to support investment decisions across all sectors of the energy industry.
Franck Carassus
CEO North America & co-founder of Opendatasoft
20 years managing sales for major software vendors: HP Software, Symantec, Novell, Dassault Systèmes
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About Opendatasoft: Opendatasoft is the leading solution for data sharing
Christiaan Burner
Chairman & CEO of Quicket Solutions
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About Quicket Solutions: Quicket provides a flexible low code/no code platform that automates workflows and streamlines payments for the public sector.
Jon Coss
Founder & CEO of Pondera Solutions
Jon Coss has 22 years of technology and data analytics experience including 9 years at Oracle and 10 years as a technology entrepreneur. In 2006, Jon founded Finish Line Solutions which was acquired in 2010. Finish Line helped large system integrators capture and deliver government projects in Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, Child Support Enforcement, and other federal and state programs. Jon is a frequent speaker at Unemployment, Medicaid, and Welfare events and conferences, in addition to multiple presentations at Google’s Innovation for the Nation. Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Business Administration from New York University, and a LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About Pondera Solutions, Thomson Reuters: Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.
Angela Chen
Founder and Chief Product Officer, President and CEO of ProductBio
Angela Chen is a systems ecologist and CEO/Co-founder of ProductBio, chosen as a Code for America company and named by TechCrunch as a “Four Favorite Companies” from the 500 Startups 2014 Demo Day for “cutting out much of the research involved in finding the right balance between cost and sustainability” and recognized our ability to “automatically compile sustainability reports for those users who need to prove that they’re supporting products that are made ethically without damaging the environment.” Chen’s team solves data science and industrial ecology challenges behind quantifying what “good” means across environmental, ethical, and economic impact areas when evaluating/purchasing products or manufacturing/marketing products. Sustainability officers at Public Procurement organizations use ProductBio to translate sustainability and CSR values into procurement specifications to harnessing spend toward compliance and alignment to environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) policies. Vendors and Supplier organizations use ProductBio to evaluate product inventories against these EPP policies.
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About ProductBio: ProductBio is a database of product category information for the procurement process.
Jay Dawkins
Founder and CEO of PublicInput
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About PublicInput: PublicInput is a community engagement software for government.
Michael Duffy
Chief Executive Officer of CITYBASE
The founder and CEO of CityBase, Mike has more than a decade of experience in the financial industry, coupled with technological, operational, and management expertise honed in entrepreneurial leadership roles. Mike served as a Federal Reserve analyst, creating insight on the impact of behavioral-economic forces. He also served as the VP of Finance for an early stage LED lighting R&D company. Mike earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with concentrations in econometrics and statistics and holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology from Purdue, where he also studied electrical engineering.
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About CITYBASE: CityBase is a gov tech platform that connects cities and citizens to make government more accessible and efficient.
Liz Derr
Founder & CEO of Simularity
Founder & CEO of Simularity.
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About Simularity: Simularity provides AI-driven geospatial intelligence
Alice Rathjen
Co-Founder, CEO of DNA Compass
Health IT Entrepreneur Co-Founder, CEO DNA Compass http://www.dnacompass.com Advocate for consented patient-centric data , federated genome maps, security, privacy @dnatimes Example of reuse of mapping infrastructure for mapping and managing genomes at scale – https://www.dnabreast.com Slideshare – https://www.slideshare.net/dnatimes
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About DNA Compass: DNA Compass helps people meet up at locations on the genome to accelerate cures.
Colin MacNaught
CEO & Co-Founder of BondLink
Colin has more than 15 years of experience in the municipal bond market. Prior to BondLink, Colin managed the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ borrowing needs from 2008 to 2015, issuing close to $25 billion in bonds and notes. His work was distinguished for its innovation, lauded by groups such as the NFMA and SIFMA, and earned two national deal of the year awards from The Bond Buyer. A big focus of his time was on boosting the state’s transparency to investors. Colin studied public finance at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
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About BondLink: BondLink builds technology products and tools to help modernize the municipal bond market.
John Dilenschneider
CEO of GovQA
Mr. John Dilenschneider is currently a Founder and a Board Member of GovQA. He is also an investor in a variety of technology companies in the financial, manufacturing and government industries. As a software entrepreneur, Mr. Dilenschneider has started, acquired, grown and sold several companies. As a senior executive, he has developed new products and businesses for many Fortune 500 organizations. Mr. Dilenschneider holds a BA, with Honors, from the University of Notre Dame in American Studies and Spanish as a Notre Dame Scholar; an MBA from the University of Chicago in Marketing and Finance, and an MS, with Distinction, from DePaul University in Computer Science. He has finished 68th in the Chicago Marathon.
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About GovQA, GovQA: WebQA now operates exclusively as GovQA, LLC with SaaS-based tailored customer service to governments.
Sarah Lehman
CEO of Zartico
Sarah Lehman is the CEO at Zartico.
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About Zartico: Zartico is a provider of destination operating systems for destination management organizations.
Michele Atkinson
Founder & CEO of Contract Cloud
Michele is an entrepreneur, lifelong learner, and advocate for female founders and military spouses. After launching a successful consulting business in the government contracting sector, she used the profits to fund a technology startup that is changing government acquisition in the same way that TurboTax changed tax preparation. Michele has been perfecting the art of federal proposal writing for over a decade, working closely with technical experts from a variety of backgrounds to capture their unique advantages to prepare winning proposals. Along the way she has gained a comprehensive knowledge of the intricate contracting mechanisms that are used by the government; from traditional contracting methods to the “non-traditional” methods that are outside of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). In 2016, Michele launched a proposal management consulting firm. Her expertise in government contracting and proposal development has resulted in over $25 billion in awards and dozens of repeat clients since that time alone. Michele is well versed in the SBA’s regulations for small business set-aside and SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program and regularly assists new businesses with her diligent research regarding opportunities, grants, incumbents, and federal spending. Working closely with dozens of traditional and non-traditional contractors, Michele recognized a big problem in the industry related to the storage, management, and recollection of data for government proposals. She performed extensive customer research before finally developing a solution to automate redundant proposal processes, cutting the time spent on government proposals by 45% while improving win rates.
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About Contract Cloud: Contract Cloud is a SaaS platform that democratizes access to government contracts, simplifying the way users find and respond to RFPs.
Ward Morgan
Co-Founder, Co-Owner & CEO of CivicPlus
Ward Morgan is the Co-Founder, Co-Owner, and Chief Executive Officer of CivicPlus.
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About CivicPlus: CivicPlus is a software platform that offers government website design solutions for municipalities, local government, and much more.
Brian L Haslam
Founder, President & CEO of Cityworks
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About Cityworks: Cityworks provides a platform that helps manage, track, and analyze your infrastructure assets.
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.
Benjamin Schmidt, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder of RoadBotics
Co-Founder at RoadBotics – a CMU spin-out company – where I am the leader of product development for our AI-based road infrastructure assessments. I have expertise in the development of machine learning tech, web front-ends and mobile app development as well as the leadership and management of data science and engineering teams in a start-up environment. Now, let’s go build something that matters.
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About RoadBotics: RoadBotics empowers governments and communities to make objective, data-driven decisions about their public infrastructure assets.
Steven Marciniak
Founder & CEO of PolicyEngage
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About PolicyEngage: Workflow Automation Software for Public Affairs. Connect legislative & regulatory tracking, advocate & donor engagement, & media monitoring.
Erik Kellogg
CEO, Strategy of inCyber Compliance
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About inCyber Compliance, The Crypsis Group: Cybersecurity Compliance. Simplified. Automated. SaaS. RegTech
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®
Manu Koenig
Founder & CEO of Civinomics
Founder at Civinomics
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About Civinomics: Civinomics is a community-based web platform that provides crowdsourced solutions to local problems and fostering engagement.
David Hammel
Founder & CEO of Balcony Labs
David Hammel is a Founder & CEO at Balcony.io
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About Balcony Labs: Balcony is a geo-communication solution that helps keep your people safe and organization runni
Ryan Cross
Founder, CEO of Shadow Flight Lab
Seasoned aerospace program leadership with extensive experience driving aerospace development, advanced technology development, military flight operations, and special operations UAS teaming. M.S Project Management – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University B.S. Aeronautics – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Certified PMP, Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor, and Remote Pilot USAF Veteran
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About Honeywell Aerospace, Shadow Flight Lab: Advanced Autonomous Aircraft for Conservation, Military, and Commercial Applications.
MJ Cartwright
CEO of Matterhorn
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About Matterhorn: Court Innovations, a Software-as-a-Service company, develops an online case resolution platform.
Ben Vaught
CEO of DemandStar Corporation
Ben Vaught is the CEO of DemandStar Corporation.
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About DemandStar Corporation: DemandStar connects businesses to local government contracting opportunities.
Ron Jones
CEO of The Glitterati
Jones has been a business owner and consultant for over 20 years and is both an author and screenwriter. Jones has consulted for the Dept of Defense, National Nuclear Security Administration, and more.
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About The Glitterati: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Azure
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.
Trey Gordner
Founder & CEO of Koios
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About Koios: Koios makes library borrowing as easy as buying.
Ron Davis
Chief Executive Officer of EasyVote Solutions
Ron Davis is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of EasyVote Solutions. For the past 25 years, Ron has been a leader in driving technology solutions to the marketplace. From technology start-ups to worldwide corporations, Ron has used his sales, marketing, and management skills to help drive multi-million dollar revenue goals. By always using the mantra of “value creation”, Ron has successfully rolled out new products, rolled out existing products to new markets, re-tooled sales forces for more success and created indirect sales forces where there was none before. Today through EasyVote, Ron is using his skills to develop software solutions to automate election processes and increase efficiency and productivity for our customers.
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About EasyVote Solutions, Sivad Solutions: EasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county, and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.
Alicia Rouault
CEO and Founder of LocalData
Alicia Rouault, CEO + Founder Alicia Rouault is an urban planner, winner of the 2012 Knight News Data Challenge and former Code for America Fellow. Alicia has worked at the intersection of urban planning and technology with the Architectural League of NY Urban Ombibus, San Francisco’s Office of Economic & Workforce Development, City of Newark, and Pratt Center for Community Development. Alicia holds a B.A. in Political Science from University of Toronto and studied planning at the Masters level at Pratt Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About LocalData: LocalData makes digital tools to collect and analyze information about urban infrastructure.
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.
Bob Kittle
President & CEO of Munetrix
Bob Kittle spent 24 years in the automotive industry in various business development roles and decided to leave his executive position for a major Tier 1 supplier in 2006 to pursue an entrepreneurial dream. Having spent most of his working life developing business strategies and strategic plans, he founded The Kittle Group, a business consultancy focused on growing and mentoring businesses utilizing a unique strategy and execution process. His business experience coupled with his role as a city councilman for the City of Auburn Hills, MI drove him to shift a large percent of his time to working with government and non-profit organizations. It is from this perspective, and after being vetted to a short list of Local Unit Financial Advisors by the Michigan Department of Treasury that the idea of Munetrix was born. Kittle is now 100% focused on promoting Munetrix and, “Helping communities help themselves” which is the company’s primary mission.
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About Munetrix: Munetrix is a web-based information tool providing data, financial information and forecasting tools for local governments and schools.
Robb Barnitt
CEO of Dropcountr
Robb Barnitt joined Dropcountr as CEO in 2013.
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About Dropcountr: Dropcountr connects people and their utilities on the mobile devices they use everyday.
Eric Grant
President/CEO of Municode
Eric Grant is President of Municipal Code Corporation (Municode). Eric joined the Municode team in 2007 after graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to receiving his Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia, and becoming a member of the Florida Bar, Eric served as a Tank Platoon Commander in the United States Marine Corps. As a Marine, Eric served both stateside and abroad. Eric and his unit were deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom shortly after September 11, 2001. By way of preparation for his career as a United States Marine, Eric attended both the United States Naval Academy and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. While at the Naval Academy, Eric served as the Brigade Commander, responsible for the development, training and welfare of over 4,000 of America’s finest young men and women. While serving as a United States Marine, Eric served in Virginia, Kentucky, California and abroad as a member of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. From July, 2007 until September, 2012, Eric served as Vice President of Municode’s Supplement Department. In this role, Eric led a team of the nation’s finest legal editors, proofreaders, indexers and production support personnel in support of over 3,700 municipal clients. As President of Municode, Eric has helped the company achieve increased levels of growth and has guided the team in several acquisitions both in Municode’s traditional line of business and into new verticals. In 2014, Municode acquired Colorado Code Publishing Corporation and successfully integrated all of their clients into the Municode family. By focusing on superior customer service and operational efficiency, Municode was able to retain 100% of the former Colorado Code Publishing Corporation’s clients. In early 2015, Eric’s team negotiated a new partnership with an electronic bill payment and presentment company, giving Municode a new and highly profitable revenue stream in the Utility Billing sector. Recognizing that the future of the municipal space will be found in the digitization of content and the creation of new platforms that will enable cities and counties to become increasingly efficient in the face of budget pressures, Eric is leading MCC into additional online verticals that will broaden Municode’s portfolio, deepen its ties with its 3,700 municipal clients and markedly increase its profitability. In addition to his commitment to the profession of municipal service, Eric is a devoted husband and father of four children. Eric also serves on a number of boards including the Community Foundation of North Florida and the United Way of the Big Bend.
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About Municode: For 70 years, Municode has worked with over 4,200 local governments creating integrated technology solutions to make civic management easier
Jordan Justus
CEO and Co-founder of Automotus
Jordan Justus is the CEO and Co-founder of Automotus.
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About Automotus: Automotus uses first-of-its-kind computer vision technology to help cities, airports and fleets manage congestion and emissions at the curb.
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.
Bratton Riley
Founder and CEO of Citibot
Bratton Riley is a Founder and CEO at Citibot.
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About Citibot: Citibot builds trust between governments and residents through accessible chat communications.
Greg Berry
Founder & CEO of Municibid
Greg is a true entrepreneur. Currently CEO & Founder of municibid.com He founded an IT consulting firm at age 18 (1998) with 2 clients and sold it in 2010 with over 200 clients, to pursue growing municibid.com which he founded in 2006.
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About Municibid: Municibid is a compliant, online auction and marketing platform.
Brian G. Cook
CEO of Fund Accounting Solutions Technologies
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About Fund Accounting Solutions Technologies: FundView is a fully-integrated suite of true fund-based accounting solutions designed specifically for local governments.
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.
Ike Kavas
CEO, Founder and CEO of Ephesoft
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About Ephesoft: Intelligent Document Processing Platform
Andrew Jornod
Chief Executive Officer/Board Member of VertexOne
Andrew is responsible for leading the company’s go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Vertex, Andrew directed the global energy and utilities business unit at HCL AXON. He was instrumental in helping HCL AXON become the fastest growing, and one of the largest utilities service providers, offering services around management consulting, infrastructure management, application management, systems integration with Oracle and SAP, custom application development and customer service BPO operations. Before HCL AXON, Andrew was a Vice President within Oracle’s Utilities Global Business Unit, with responsibilities that included product management and development, and sales and marketing. In addition, he held key roles at Indus (now Ventyx), British Telecom, Control Data Systems and Microsoft.
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About VertexOne: Integrated SaaS Solution for Utilities, including cloud Customer Information Systems (CIS) , Customer Engagement, Payments & Analytics
Mark Hynes
Chief Executive Officer of Granicus
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About Granicus: Granicus provides technology that empowers government organizations to create better lives for the people they serve.
Mark Elgart
President and CEO of AdvancED
Dr. Mark A. Elgart currently serves as the founding President and Chief Executive Officer for Advance Education (AdvancED), the parent organization for the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI). Under his leadership, AdvancED is recognized as a leader in achieving educational quality. AdvancED drives education improvement through research and innovation, policy and advocacy, technology, and accreditation serving over 32,000 institutions and 20 million students worldwide.
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About AdvancED: AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world.
Jennifer Pilcher
CEO & Founder of Military One Click
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About Military One Click: Hundreds of military and non-military resources in one user-friendly directory.
Mark Ponder
CEO & President & Founder of ElectSolve
Mark Ponder As founder and CEO of ElectSolve Technology Solutions and Services, Mark has over 28 years of experience in the Utility Industry forging the way for Utility Operational Data Management in the Electric Utility Regulated and Deregulated Environment. Mr. Ponder began his career at CSW-SWEPCO Electric Power Company (now AEP- SWEPCO) and was responsible for management and support of transmission, generation, and distribution SCADA-EMS Systems. Mark later joined C3 / CSW Communications in Austin, TX, a deregulated telecommunication subsidiary of Central & Southwest (now American Electric Power). As Chief Technologist, he specialized in Utility Automation, deployed multiple communities with early generation automated metering systems(AMR), performed systems integration, and successfully launched CSW into the California deregulating market as the first certified Meter Data Management Agent MDMA. He continued his career as the Director of the Network Operation Center, NOC Operations and Enterprise Solutions at MainStreet Networks, a California based early stage technology company developing products and services for electric utility companies. In 1999 Mark founded ElectSolve Technology Solutions and Services, Inc. For over 17 years ElectSolve has offered comprehensive and reliable IT products and services to Electric Cooperatives, Electric Utility G & T Cooperatives, Municipal Utilities, Electric Utility Service Providers, and Deregulated Electric Market Participants. Since entering the utility marketplace in early 1999, ElectSolve has introduced products such as Meter Data Management Platform and Line Loss Reporting systems. ElectSolve’s MDM Platform, including VEE, Profiling, Line Loss Reporting and Settlement is a proven and stable Utility Operational Data foundation for Smart Grid Technologies. Mark also holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Louisiana State University.
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About ElectSolve: ElectSolve is a full service provider of technical services, consulting and advanced data management solutions.
Chris Moustakas
President & CEO of DevonWay
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About DevonWay: DevonWay is a leading software provider of Quality, Safety, Work, and Asset Management solutions (EHSQ, QMS, EHS, EAM)
DJ Muller
CEO, Co-Founder of Relay Software
DJ Muller is the Co-Founder and CEO of Relay Software.
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About Relay Software: Relay is a community safety platform, focused on providing help to those who need it, anywhere in the U.S.
Scott Adams
CEO & Co-Founder of STRAX Intelligence Group
Scott Adams is the CEO & Co-Founder of GroupCare Technologies & EagleEye Intelligence. Scott also served as the Chairman of MobileHelp, which is a pioneer in the personal emergency systems (PERS) industry. Under Scott’s guidance, MobileHelp developed the first ever Mobile Personal Emergency Response System mPERS) and is America’s leading provider of mPERS systems for seniors. A successful, serial entrepreneur, Scott was Co-Founder and President of Hiway Technologies, which grew to be the world’s largest web hosting company in just 3 short years by 1998. Hiway was acquired by Verio in 1999 and subsequently acquired by NTT Communications in 2000. A firm believer that success starts with education, Scott launched the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship and also helped create Tech Runway, both at Florida Atlantic University. Scott is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and holds a BBA.
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About STRAX Intelligence Group: STRAX is a Common Operating Platform for incident management, emergency response, and integrated intelligent networks.
Andrew Flynn
CEO of Aquorn, Inc.
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About Aquorn, Inc.: Debt Management Solutions for the Public Finance Sector
Abess Makki
Founder and CEO of CityInsight
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About CityInsight: CityInsight creates mobile and desktop applications for municipal governments.
Ragi Yaser Burhum
Founder / CEO of AmigoCloud
Ragi began his geospatial career over a decade ago as an engineer at ESRI, where he worked on the Geodatabase team creating, designing, and maintaining ArcGIS core components. At Microsoft, he worked on the main GIS data pipeline of Microsoft Flight Simulator. He ran a successful GIS consulting company in the Bay Area where he helped organizations like NVIDIA and CSR with their GIS challenges. In addition to founding GeoMeetup, the largest developer-centric geospatial Meetup in the world, Ragi is also heavily involved in Open Source GIS Software (he is an active OSGeo Charter member) and often contributes code to O.S. geospatial projects (e.g. as a committer in GDAL) that are the foundation of several Open GIS applications worldwide.
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About AmigoCloud: AmigoCloud is a geospatial platform that helps you collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and publish your location data.
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.
Luke Fretwell
CEO of ProudCity
Luke Fretwell is co-founder and CEO of ProudCity, named by Government Technology as one of “5 to Watch” in 2016. He is also the founder of the government and civic technology blog, GovFresh.
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About GovFresh, ProudCity: ProudCity is a software company providing cities with websites and online government services.
Brian Utley
President & CEO of Periscope Holdings
Brian Utley leads Periscope Holdings, Inc., laying the foundation on which the company has built its leading purpose to eradicate waste and maximize value. Brian takes a customer-oriented approach in leading Periscope, ensuring that all business functions align with Periscope’s purpose. This dedication helps the company to succeed in saving money and enhancing transparency for the public sector entities and institutions of higher education it serves. Brian is a public procurement thought leader, known for actively driving innovation and striving to deliver on the promise of purpose-based procurement. In earlier years, he was employed at a government agency, which is where he acquired the initiative to raise efficiency and streamline processes for the public sector. Brian offers more than 15 years of experience in public affairs, public relations, strategic consulting, marketing, and political consulting. He also provides extensive expertise in public procurement and is an NIGP Government Certified Contractor (GCC). Prior to joining Periscope, Brian served as Special Assistant to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. In addition to leading numerous real estate investments, Brian previously worked as a director at Temerlin McClain Advertising, helping companies and political organizations fulfill their communications objectives. Brian is extremely involved in community service as a board member for the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation and the Busby Foundation (fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease). He is also an active member of the Young President’s Organization and formerly served as the membership chairman. Brian earned his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Texas – Dallas.
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About Periscope Holdings: Periscope Holdings helps organizations build a better procurement process.
Paul Cammisa
Co-founder and CEO of GovSense
Paul Cammisa co-founded GovSense, a cloud-based permitting, licensing, and financial software for state and local government.
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About GovSense: GovSense is the first unified, true-cloud software specifically tailored to local government needs.
Chris Smith
CEO & CTO of Vizalytics Technology
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About Vizalytics Technology: Vizalytics creates location-specific business intelligence from open and private data for enterprise, government, and institutional clients.
