Nick Sinai

Nick Sinai
Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Under Todd Park
In office
January 2013 – December 2014
President Barack Obama
Succeeded by Ryan Panchadsaram
Energy and Environment Director, Federal Communications Commission
In office
August 2009 – December 2010
President Barack Obama
Personal details
Alma mater Harvard
University of Chicago [1]

Nick Sinai was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States.[2] He assumed this role under the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Todd Park, and continued under Megan Smith. Sinai was formerly a Senior Advisor to Park as well as to the first U.S. CTO, Aneesh Chopra, starting in 2011.[3]

Nick is currently a Venture Partner at Insight Venture Partners,[4] a global technology venture capital and private equity firm, and an inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.[5]

Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States

As U.S. Deputy CTO, Nick led President Obama’s Open Data Initiatives to liberate data to fuel innovation and economic growth.[6][7][8] A prominent advocate and frequent speaker for Open Data,[9][10][11][12] he has said “government data is a valuable asset and should be available wherever possible”[13] and that data “should be thought of as infrastructure."[14] He contributed to President Obama’s Executive Order 13642,[15] the re-launch of Data.gov,[16] Project Open Data,[17] the U.S. Digital Services Playbook,[18] the G8 Open Data Charter,[19] the White House Big Data report,[20] and the U.S. Open Data Action Plan.

Nick led Administration efforts to give Americans easier access to their own data and to advance the idea that Americans deserve secure access to their own healthcare (Blue Button),[21] energy, student loan, tax, and other personal data in machine-readable formats. Nick launched the White House’s Green Button Initiative,[22] a public-private effort to provide electricity customers online access to their own energy usage data.[23]

He led the Open Government Initiative[24] and developed the second U.S. Open Government Plan,[25] to ensure that the federal government is more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. Improvements underway as part of the plan include greater fiscal transparency,[26] opening up the We the People online petition platform, and improving service for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.[27] Nick was part of the U.S. delegation at the Open Government Partnership Head of State event,[28] where President Obama unveiled new transparency commitments to improve accessibility to federal financial data, improve federal digital services, strengthen patient privacy in the health care system, and develop a federal open source software policy.[29][30]

Nick also helped start and grow the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which brings tech-savvy entrepreneurs into the federal government for year-long "tours of duty", with a particular focus on data innovation projects.[31][32] He also played a key role in developing the Administration’s $4.5B grid modernization strategy[33] to build a smarter and more secure electric grid,[34] and helped develop President Obama’s ConnectED initiative[35] to bring fast broadband and digital learning to 99% of students.[36]

National Broadband Plan

Prior to the White House, Nick served at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped draft the National Broadband Plan.[37][38][39] The plan included recommendations that the U.S. should modernize the electrical grid, improve the energy efficiency of the IT industry, and unleash “energy innovation in homes and buildings by making energy data readily accessible by consumers.”[40] President Obama put forth his recommendation that “Congress should make clear that state, regional and local governments can build broadband networks”[41] as a policy proposal in the build up to his 2015 State of the Union.[42][43]

Earlier career

Nick was a venture capitalist at Polaris Partners and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners (now Tenaya Capital).[44] Nick also served in executive and advisory roles with two Boston area start-up technology companies, and served as a senior advisor to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.[45]

Nick earned an M.B.A from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an A.B. from Harvard University.[44]

Recognition

Nick has been named Top 25 most influential people under 40 in gov and tech,[46] to the 25th edition of the Federal 100,[47] to the Networked Grid 100: The Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid,[48] and to the FedScoop 50 for Federal Leadership.[49]

References

  1. ↑ BusinessWeek Executive Profile: Nick Sinai
  2. ↑ The White House: OSTP Leadership & Staff
  3. ↑ White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: Building a Strong, Lasting Economy With Energy Innovation
  4. ↑ Insight Venture Partners: Insight Team
  5. ↑ Harvard Kennedy School: Aneesh Chopra and Nick Sinai announced as the inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellows
  6. ↑ NYU project touts 500 top open-data firms
  7. ↑ White House hails new study on open data
  8. ↑ Could research data be lost soon?
  9. ↑ Aspen Institute FOCS Participants
  10. ↑ Panelists talk tech, say government can get it right
  11. ↑ Politico Outside, In Launch Event
  12. ↑ G8 World Bank Open Data for Agriculture Agenda
  13. ↑ Ideas Lab Open Data: Power to People, Projects and Prosperity
  14. ↑ Shorenstein Center: Data as Infrastructure
  15. ↑ Data.gov: White House: Open Data Round Up
  16. ↑ Information Week: White House Launches More Open Data Initiatives
  17. ↑ FedTech Magazine: Open Data: An Interview with U.S. Deputy CTO Nick Sinai
  18. ↑ NextGov: Why Can't Government Websites Be More Like Amazon?
  19. ↑ Nick Sinai Github: G8 Metadata Mapping
  20. ↑ White House: Big Data, Open Data, and Federal Agencies
  21. ↑ Leading Pharmacies and Retailers Join Blue Button Initiative
  22. ↑ Green Button Q&A with Nick Sinai of the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP)
  23. ↑ White House Interview on the New Open Data Policy
  24. ↑ White House Open Government Initiative
  25. ↑ United States Releases Its Second Open Government Plan
  26. ↑ USASpending.gov
  27. ↑ 18F: A New Look at the Freedom of Information Act
  28. ↑ Open Government Partnership
  29. ↑ White House: Celebrating Open Government Around the Globe
  30. ↑ Reuters: Obama at U.N. pledges steps to more open government
  31. ↑ U.S. Deputy CTO Looking for a Few Good Data Fellows
  32. ↑ White House: Presidential Innovation Fellows Projects
  33. ↑ White House: A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: Enabling Our Secure Energy Future
  34. ↑ White House: Taking Action for a Stronger, Smarter, Cleaner Electric Grid
  35. ↑ White House: ConnectED Initiative
  36. ↑ Harvard Kennedy School: Aneesh Chopra and Nick Sinai Announced as Inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellows
  37. ↑ National Broadband Plan
  38. ↑ Smart Grid Innovations in the National Broadband Plan
  39. ↑ National Broadband Plan Crucial For 'Smart' Power Grids
  40. ↑ FCC Broadband Plan Goal: Use Broadband to Manage Energy Consumption
  41. ↑ Broadband.gov: National Broadband Plan
  42. ↑ Wired: White House Backs Cities That Want to Build Their Own Super-Speed Internet
  43. ↑ Re/Code: White House Says U.S. Broadband Market Needs More Competition
  44. 1 2 Polaris Senior Associate and Greenfuel VP Nick Sinai Joining Lehman Brothers Venture Arm in Boston
  45. ↑ Association for Federal Information Resources Management March Monthly Luncheon
  46. ↑ Fedscoop Top Federal IT Folks Under 40
  47. ↑ FCW Fed 100
  48. ↑ The Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid
  49. ↑ FedScoop 50: Celebrating 2014's leaders in federal IT
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