Aspen Policy Academy

Announcing Our Second Cohort of the Tech Executive Leadership Initiative

  • Article Published March 9, 2021

43 seasoned technology executives make up the second cohort of leaders learning to tackle public-sector challenges

San Francisco, CA, March 9, 2021 — The Aspen Tech Policy Hub and the Tech Talent Project are pleased to announce the Winter 2021 cohort of the Tech Executive Leadership Initiative. These 42 leaders bring a wide array of executive experience as start-up and nonprofit founders, IT leaders, product managers, engineering heads, tech lawyers, medical technologists, climate technologists, and more.

The winter 2021 Tech Executive Leadership Initiative leaders include:

  • Jason Botts, Board Member at the North Carolina Department of Commerce 
  • Rohit Chandra, VP of Engineering at Sunshine.com
  • Lodrina Cherne, Principal Security Advocate at Cybereason; Digital Forensics Instructor at the SANS Institute
  • Erika Cheung, Executive Director at Ethics in Entrepreneurship
  • Anupam DattaMajumdar, Head of Global R&D at Vyaire Medical
  • Andrea Flores, Information Technology Business Relationship Director at LA Care Health Plan
  • Rebecca Gasser, Chief Information Officer at Ferrandino and Son
  • Trish Gray, Head of Capacity Engineering and Cloud Architecture at Pinterest
  • Sue Hendrickson, Co-Head of Technology and Life Sciences at Arnold & Porter 
  • Benjamin Hersh, Staff Interaction Designer at Google’s Workspace Studio
  • Guna Jayaseelapandian, Lead Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Colin Jenkel, Application Security Audit Manager, Financial Operations at Amazon
  • Enrique Jenkins, Head of IT at DoorDash
  • Sridevi Joshi, Co-Founder and Chief Technologist at Foresight Resilience Strategies
  • Anjali Joshi, Board member at Alteryx, Lattice Semiconductor, and Iteris
  • Rebecca Kantar, Entrepreneur in Residence at Roblox
  • Maggie Klancnik, Former Director of Enterprise Resource Planning and Management at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
  • Laura Lanford, VP of Engineering at Nava Public Benefit Corporation
  • Michelle Lee, Product Lead at Protocol Labs
  • Genevieve Liang, Former Fellow at E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
  • Cecilia Marihart, Senior Advisor at McMackin Advisors
  • Phil Marshall, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Conversa
  • Harry Max, Consultant and Leadership Coach at Applied Priorities
  • Matt McDonald, Global Head of Emerging Formats at Google 
  • Sam McVeety, Principal Engineer at Google
  • Dan Miller, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Spora Health
  • Craig Montuori, Co-Founder at C19 Coalition and Global EIR
  • Elizabeth Nash, Chief Data Officer at PolicyMap
  • Ladan Nasserian, Data Engineering Product Manager, Siri at Apple
  • Greg Novick, Former Engineering Director at Apple
  • Matt Perkins, Former Chief Marketing Officer at 7AC Technologies
  • Sonya Pryor-Jones, Chief Implementation Officer at the Fab Foundation
  • Parimala Rao, Chief Technology Officer at uShip
  • Brian Sager, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Reveal Networks
  • Ratna Saripalli, Global Director of Data Science at GE Healthcare
  • Tony Sebro, Deputy General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation
  • Jeremy Toeman, VP of Product and Technology at WarnerMedia Innovation
  • Carlos Torres, General Counsel at Turvo
  • Tejash Unadkat, Entrepreneur in Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
  • Gregory Warden, Former VP of Engineering at Chainalysis
  • Isabel Yang, SVP and Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Energy Industries
  • Gene Yoon, Former Chief Operating Officer at Honeycomb.io
  • Nevin Zimmermann, Founder and CEO at Ober-Tech

The Winter 2021 program began in mid-January and will run until April. The leaders spent the first four weeks engaged in an intensive policy bootcamp. They are now working in teams to tackle three real-life policy projects. In May, the leaders will present their ideas to stakeholders and the public at to-be-announced webinars.

For more information about the leaders and the Tech Executive Leadership Initiative, see here.

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