Aneesh Chopra
Class of 2004
The story goes that Chopra, then an exec with the Advisory Board, had no government experience when he took a bus to Richmond in 2004 as part of a Leadership Arlington outing. He came back inspired by the “power of multi-stakeholder collaboration” and the magic that can happen when corporate, nonprofit and government interests work together. Less than two years later, he was serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology under then-governor Tim Kaine. In 2009, he was appointed by Barack Obama as the nation’s very first U.S. Chief Technology Officer—championing efforts to bring wireless broadband to all Americans and kick-starting a national discourse on the societal benefits of open government data. Today, as president of CareJourney (and co-founder of its parent company, Hunch Analytics) in Rosslyn, he’s at the forefront of modernizing health care with big-data insights.
“The No. 1 problem in the U.S. today is rising income inequality. We need more entrepreneurship, more ways to expand access to modern infrastructure, broadband and other digital technologies to help level the playing field.” —Aneesh Chopra
