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Jay Nath

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As the mayor’s chief innovation officer for San Francisco and a White House-recognized "Champion of Change," Jay Nath works with the technology community and the public to help make government more effective, efficient and responsive. He applies modern, agile thinking to government administration, focusing on "lean government” as a platform for innovation.

Under Nath's leadership, the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation launched the first-of-its-kind Startup in Residence program in collaboration with the White House, offering an on-premises incubator at City Hall meant to apply startup ingenuity directly to pain points within government. Inspired by the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, Nath created the Mayor’s Senior Fellowship program where cross-sector leaders spend one year in City Hall working on high impact projects.

He also established the nation’s first open-source software policy for a city government and authored open-data legislation that requires city departments to make nearly all non-confidential datasets available to the public, mandates department-level data coordinators and creates a chief data officer position for the city.

Prior to his public service, Nath worked at a San Francisco startup as a vice president of product and at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior consultant.