Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Aug 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Washington, DC

Apr 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Senior Fellow and Director of the FAS Technology and Innovation Initiative, focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and immigration policy in advancing the nation's security and economic growth.

Feb 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

Feb 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Boundless is a technology company empowering families to navigate the immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably.
• We are on the lookout for great engineers, marketers, designers, immigration attorneys, and other teammates to build a mission-driven company. See job descriptions at boundless.com/careers

Sep 2010 – Jan 2017 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Washington, DC

• Spearheaded the White House Startup America initiative to promote high-growth entrepreneurship in communities across the country, including: Startup in a Day, a pledge by >100 mayors to streamline business licensing and permitting; White House Demo Day, an inclusive entrepreneurship agenda yielding major commitments by the venture capital industry, engineering schools, tech companies, and others to advance opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities; and Lab-to-Market, a whole-of-government project to accelerate the commercialization of federally-funded R&D, including expansion of the I-Corps entrepreneur training program.
• Launched the Clean Energy Investment Initiative to expand investment in promising new technologies, including more than $4 billion in private-sector commitments alongside new executive actions; and co-drafted the U.S. implementation framework for Mission Innovation, an effort to increase and optimize clean energy R&D across all federal R&D agencies.
• Helped develop the bipartisan Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, signed by President Obama in 2012, which created an “IPO on-ramp” for emerging growth companies, allowed smaller companies to raise up to $50 million annually through “mini public offerings” under Regulation A+, and unleashed a new marketplace of regulated online platforms for securities-based crowdfunding.
• Helped lead the Administration’s high-skill immigration agenda, including core elements of the bipartisan Senate bill on comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, and President Obama’s subsequent executive actions on immigration, such as: the International Entrepreneur Rule, to make it easier for the world’s best entrepreneurs to start companies in the U.S.; the OPT STEM Rule, to strengthen on-the-job training for international STEM grads from U.S. universities; and the H-4 Rule, to empower spouses of high-skill immigrants to get employment permits and put their own education and talents to work.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr

• StageGrade was founded to report the critical consensus on plays and musicals in New York City, offering theatergoers a trustworthy source for all reviews, authoritatively aggregated and graded for easy reference. The site was featured on a front-page story in The New York Times, and described as “a key bookmark” by The New York Post. (StageGrade was acquired in 2012.)

Jan 1999 – Jan 2010 · 11 yrs

• Playscripts is an innovative publishing and performance licensing company for new stage plays and musicals, serving tens of thousands of theater groups in over 100 countries with an exclusive catalogue of over 2,000 works by well over 1,000 authors. Featured by NPR for “bringing the business of theater into the 21st century.” As founding CEO, executed both long-term strategy and day-to-day management. (Playscripts, Inc. was acquired in 2014.)