David Bray — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Named by Business Insider as one of '24 Americans Changing the World'.
Serves as Principal & CEO at LeadDoAdapt (LDA) Ventures and Chair & Distinguished Fellow at The Stimson Center.
Led the Bioterrorism Preparedness & Response Program's tech response to 9/11, anthrax, West Nile, SARS, and monkeypox.
Served as Executive Director for two bipartisan commissions on the geopolitical impacts of new technology and data, delivering reports to the U.S. President and Congress.
Led the FCC's successful organization-wide push to public cloud and hosting, saving millions of dollars.
Holds Post-Doctoral Associate positions at MIT Sloan School and Harvard Kennedy School.

Biography

David Bray, PhD, is the Principal and CEO of LeadDoAdapt (LDA) Ventures and serves as Chair and Distinguished Fellow at NGOs at The Stimson Center. He is also a Distinguished Executive with MIT, Harvard, IHMC, CMU, and GMU, and a Marshall & Eisenhower Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2014, he has been a Global Speaker for organizations including Boards, Fortune 500s, the UN, and SxSW, and a Leader with the World Economic Forum.