Title: Chief digital officer, New York State; formerly CDO for New York City in the Bloomberg administration
Born: August 15, 1983, New York City
Education: BA in history, New York University
Early Marker: Founded GroundReport, an early global crowdsourced news start-up.
Big Idea: Working toward making code the architecture of the future if New York—city or state—are to be tech hubs to rival Silicon Valley.
Wave of the Future: Tech/reinventing government
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