Nick Sinai is a venture capitalist, adjunct faculty at Harvard Kennedy School, author, and a former senior official in the Obama Administration.

[2] He assumed this role under the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Todd Park, and continued under Megan Smith.

[4] Sinai is a regular contributor to the TV Show Government Matters,[5] and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal[6] and the Economist.

[12][13] At the Belfer Center, Sinai has written about Improving Veterans’ Digital Experience Across Presidential Administrations, Human-Centered Policymaking, and Modernizing the Regulatory State.

[33] He is a board member at Rebellion Defense,[34] LeoLabs,[35] HawkEye 360,[36] and BrightBytes[37] and helped invest in Virgin Pulse[38] and Recorded Future.

He launched the White House’s Green Button Initiative,[56] a public-private effort to provide electricity customers online access to their own energy usage data.

[67][68] In January 2017, with less than an hour left in office, President Obama signed the TALENT Act, bipartisan legislation that made the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program a permanent part of the Federal government.

Sinai’s role in the legislation and the details of the dramatic signing was captured in a WIRED piece entitled “The Race to Pass Obama’s Last Law and Save Tech in DC.”[69] Sinai also played a key role in developing the Administration’s $4.5B grid modernization strategy[70] to build a smarter and more secure electric grid,[71] and helped develop President Obama’s ConnectED initiative[72] to bring fast broadband and digital learning to 99% of students.

[73] Prior to the White House, Sinai served at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped draft the National Broadband Plan.