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This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Politics space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Adam Burris
CTO of RaiseTheMoney.com
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About RaiseTheMoney.com: Payment Processing, International, Politics, Nonprofits
Vikram Jayanthi
Co-Founder and CTO of Pundit
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About Pundit: The social network built for politics.

Ian Spencer
Partner & CTO of Red Edge
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About Red Edge: Red Edge designs and develops advocacy campaigns for corporations, business associations, political campaigns, and enterprise advocates.
Mark Jablonowski
Managing Partner & CTO of DSPolitical
Mark Jablonowski is an award-winning progressive technologist with fifteen years of experience innovating how political campaigns and causes use digital advertising, data, and technology to achieve their goals. Mark currently serves DSPolitical as a managing partner and CTO.
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About DSPolitical: DSPolitical brings together the best voter data and advertising technology to help campaigns find the exact right voters online every time.
Brian Boyko
CTO of Mayday PAC
Brian Boyko is a social media and marketing consultant from Austin, Texas, whose consultancy, Blogphilo, produces web copy, video production, WordPress configuration, and presentation animation for tech industry startups and political campaigns. In 2013, Boyko ran a political campaign for Texas State Representative powered by viral marketing and Internet funding. Though the campaign was short-lived, Boyko was able to raise awareness of the issue of campaign finance and the eventual Democratic nominee promised to make campaign finance reform a key issue in the campaign and a priority if elected. All donations to Boyko’s campaign were returned to his contributors when he dropped out of the race. From 2007-2010, Boyko made multiple trips to New Zealand in order to study the reason why the South Pacific nation constantly ranked as the “least corrupt country” on Transparency International’s yearly index, including interviewing former Prime Minsters, current political party leadership, and living and working under the New Zealand political system for 6 months in 2010. He found that New Zealand’s relatively low corruption comes from a combination of good campaign finance laws and electoral reforms that make multi-party systems possible. He published his findings in his book, “Importing Democracy.” Boyko holds an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in American History from Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a former associate editor of the award-winning newspaper, the Daily Texan, and operates a political blog at BoykoTX.org.
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About Mayday PAC: Mayday PAC (MAYDAY.US) is an independent political action committee (PAC) that raises and spends money to influence political outcomes.
Jon Brennan
Chief Technology Officer of LawMaker
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About LawMaker: LawMaker empowers Americans to propose new laws, build coalitions, and engage their elected officials to advocate for change.
Jon Brennan
Chief Technology Officer of LawMaker
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About LawMaker: LawMaker empowers Americans to propose new laws, build coalitions, and engage their elected officials to advocate for change.

Dale Willis
Co-Founder & CTO of Curate
Dale Willis is the CTO & Co-Founder at Curate.
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About Curate, Exis: Curate is a civic intelligence company that empowers organizations to monitor risk and find opportunities in local government discussions.

Spencer Rogers
Co-Founder & CTO of Simpolfy
Software engineer with 10+ years of experience in web development and technology infrastructure. Previously he was a Senior Developer at Vittana, a micro-finance non-profit. He’s most excited about how technology can improve the world and is motivated by impactful missions.
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About Simpolfy: Simpolfy is a politically impartial, data-driven organization with the mission to improve democracy.

Craig Leinoff
CTO of ShiftSpark
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About : Make politicians listen by pledging support based on issues. Hold them accountable by donating on results, not promises.

Ben Atkins
Founder & CTO of VoterGuru
Ben Atkins is Founder & CTO at VoterGuru.
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About VoterGuru: VoterGuru tracks the records of political candidates and compares user inputs with politician records to find the closest ideological match.

Merrill Hansen
Co-Founder & CTO of Icount.com
Merrill Hansen is Co-Founder and CTO at Icount.com.
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About Icount.com: Icount is a political website that empowers the public to enhance communication between elected officials and citizens.