Our Team
We believe that when you put technologists and urbanists on the same team you have the potential to transform the urban environment.

Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala is Head of Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and recently chaired the Regional Plan Association’s five-year effort to develop a Fourth Regional Plan.

Habon Ali is an Associate on the Policy and Communications team, based in Toronto. Most recently, Habon worked as an Urban Planner with the global planning and design consultancy Urban Strategies in Toronto.

Jack Amadeo is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. He comes to us from Bloomberg and Compass, where he built apps to help New Yorkers find real estate.

Brian Barlow is Director of Infrastructure Investments at Sidewalk Labs, where he leads the investment, finance, and partnership activity for our urban infrastructure initiatives.

Mark Bauernhuber is Director of Building Innovations-Architecture at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, he worked for Marriott International where he lead multiple design and product transformation initiatives for several hotel brands across multiple market segments.

Catherine Benz is an Associate on the Investments and Partnerships team at Sidewalk Labs. She has prior experience at Ibis Networks, a plug load energy management company, as well as at the World Resources Institute where she was responsible for conducting analyses on U.S. energy infrastructure economics.

Maya Borgenicht is an Associate on the Policy and Communications team, based in Toronto. Maya has worked on urban planning projects in Toronto, Ottawa, and New York City.

Nick Bowden is the Head of Model at Sidewalk Labs.

Simon Brandler is Director of Public Policy Innovation at Sidewalk Labs, where he thinks about how smart urban policy can foster innovation, empower communities, and improve quality of life.

Sarah Ruth Boyer is Associate, Talent, at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Sarah Ruth ran operations recruiting at Oscar Insurance, where she helped scale the company.

Matt is a Product Manager. Before joining Sidewalk Labs, he was a Senior Associate Consultant for Bain & Company.

John Brodhead is Director of Policy and Strategy at Sidewalk Labs and is based in Toronto.

Kia Burke is an Executive Assistant to Dan Doctoroff. She has worked as an Executive Assistant to the CFO at UnionTheological Seminary and prior to Union was the Executive Assistant to the CFO at Olympus Capital Asia.

Alisa Burnett is an Associate Director of Finance at Sidewalk Labs.

Laura Capucilli is an Associate, Development at Sidewalk Labs, having previously worked in New York City government as an Urban Fellow turned Policy Advisor for City Hall's operations team.

Leo is an Associate, Mobility at Sidewalk Labs. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an M.S. in Transportation.

Alyssa Harvey Dawson is General Counsel and Head of Legal, Privacy and Data Governance, at Sidewalk Labs. She previously worked at Harman International Industries and Netflix.

Chrystal Dean is our Associate, Public Engagement and is based in Toronto. She has been working in and alongside communities for over a decade.

Mike Delucia is an Associate Director of Investments at Sidewalk Labs and previously financed energy and cleantech companies.

Carrie is the Programming Lead at Sidewalk Labs and has a background in all things city-tech.

Shaina Doar is Head of City Operations at Sidewalk Labs. Most recently, Shaina served as the Chief of Staff to the Mayor’s Economic Council under Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago.

Cara is an Associate on the Development team at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Cara was based in Copenhagen with ReD Associates, a consulting firm that applies social science methods like ethnography to the business world.

Robie is an Associate on the Development team at Sidewalk Labs. She began her career as a city planner, reviewing development proposals and interfacing with governing bodies for several Bay Area cities.

Jan is Head of Talent at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Jan built the recruiting function at Oscar Insurance, with hundreds of hires during his tenure.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, William was a Special Assistant within the United States Department of the Treasury, where he was a key policy advisor to the Office of the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance.

Laura Fox is Associate Director of Development at Sidewalk Labs. Laura has spent her career bridging the corporate, public, and social sectors to create value (and just as important, delight) for residents and visitors.

Taylor K Gesner (TK) is the Associate Director of 307, based in Toronto. TK is an award-winning programmer/curator, community engagement specialist, public art project manager, independent music producer/DJ, and arts advocate.

Kael is a Software Engineer for Sidewalk Labs' Model Lab. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Kael co-founded Many Trees, where he helped develop a unified platform for data processing, machine learning, and visualization using GPUs.

Johanna Greenbaum is the Director of Planning and Development at Sidewalk Labs.

Kevin is the Model Lab's Product and UX designer. Prior to this he was Design Lead at Airbnb and a UX Designer at Google, working on YouTube and Google Maps.

Ryan Guptill is a Communications and Public Policy Associate at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to this role, Ryan was an Associate Principal at Navigator, working on a number of high-stakes public affairs files across various sectors, with a focus on communications and government relations.

Michelle Ha Tucker is Director of Design at Sidewalk Labs.

Abby Harrill is Finance Associate at Sidewalk Labs.

Shaun Harris is the Director of Resident Experience for Sidewalk Labs. He was previously the VP, Global Head of Experience + Service Design at MetLife.

Brian Ho is a Designer at Sidewalk Labs. As an interdisciplinary designer with a background in architecture, Brian focuses on making both the built environment and urban technology better for people.

Okalo Ikhena is the Director of Product Management for Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, Okalo was a Product Manager at Google for 4 years, launching new products and businesses.

Eric Jaffe is Editorial Director of Sidewalk Labs. He previously served as New York Bureau Chief for CityLab, The Atlantic’s site devoted to urban life, where his own writing focused on transportation policy and the science of cities.

B.H. Bronson Johnson is Director, Infrastructure Delivery at Sidewalk Labs. Bronson is trained and licensed as a geologist, civil engineer, and geotechnical engineer.

Prior to Sidewalk, Annie was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey, where she served public and private sector clients on strategy and enterprise transformations.

Mark is the Associate Director of Infrastructure Delivery at Sidewalk Labs.
Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Mark worked for FivePoint Communities in San Francisco, where he managed land development programs on large, mixed-use master developments and developed a passion for applying emerging technologies to large-scale infrastructure systems.

Alison Maddox oversees operations for the investments and partnerships team at Sidewalk Labs.

Jiten Manglani is an Investment Consultant at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Jiten was the Director of Social Investment for the Pershing Square Foundation, where he sourced, oversaw, and conducted due diligence on the Foundation’s venture capital investments in social enterprises.

Jorge Manrique Charro is an Associate in the Investments & Partnerships team at Sidewalk Labs, based in the Toronto office. Jorge previously worked on real estate investments, financings, and disposals at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, based in the United Arab Emirates.

Pierre is the Associate Director of Procurement. He has 10+ years of experience in Supply = Management, as well as Operations and Process improvement, for large organizations in North America and Europe.

Andrew Miller is Associate Director, Mobility at Sidewalk Labs. His background is in transit policy, transit planning, and public finance.
As a Strategic Leader with the City of Mississauga, he led the delivery of Dundas Connects, a master plan for rapid transit, intensified urban development, and an improved public realm for Dundas Street.

Justin is an Executive Assistant at Sidewalk Labs.
Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Justin received his Master's in International Affairs from The New School in New York City, and served two years in the Peace Corps in Tanzania teaching English to secondary school students.

Michael is Senior Advisor at Sidewalk Labs. Michael is also the founder of Partners Path Capital, a multifamily investment office that focuses on real estate and specialty private equity transactions. Prior to Partners Path, Michael was Senior Vice President of Development and Business Affairs for the Tampa Bay Rays, where he was part of a core management team that turned around what had been one of the most moribund franchises in professional sports.

Laura is a Director of Legal and Associate General Counsel at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Laura was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at BuzzFeed, where she structured, negotiated, and executed financings, M&A transactions, and joint ventures.

David Katz is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Tim Kau is Associate Director of Design and Communications at Sidewalk Labs.

Patrick is Principal Designer at Sidewalk Labs. Previously he led design on the Facebook Local app, which helps people share and discover the best of their city.

Ariel Kennan is the Director of Civic Innovation at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, she was the Director of Design and Product for the New York City Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity.

Tom is Senior Hardware Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Tom was founder and CEO of ReFactory, a design consultancy and electronics manufacturing firm. Located in Brooklyn, New York, ReFactory helped small companies and startups design, prototype, and manufacture electronic products.

Karim Khalifa is Director of Buildings Innovation for Sidewalk Labs.

Emily Kildow is the Associate Director of Sustainability at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, she led sustainability for Google's New York City campus.

Joanna Lack is Director, Opportunity at Sidewalk Labs.

Micah Lasher is Head of Policy & Communications for Sidewalk Labs, drawing on his experiences at the intersection of government and technology.

Nicole LeBlanc is Director of Investments and Partnerships for Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Nicole was a Director at BDC Capital.

Lana oversees operations for the Policy and Communications team at Sidewalk Labs. She has held leadership, administrative, and operations roles across technology and higher education spaces. She has a passion for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through her professional practice.

Sara J. Lewis is Sidewalk Labs' Legal Director. Before joining Sidewalk, she was a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Taylor Lint is a software engineer for the Model Lab. Prior to Sidewalk, Taylor worked at LinkedIn with a focus on data visualization.

Corinna is Associate, Mobility for Sidewalk Labs. Her background is in urban transportation, with a focus on catalyzing policy changes through new data and technology.

Jacqueline Lu is Associate Director, Public Realm, at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, Jackie served as Director of Data Analytics at NYC Parks, where she founded their first data science unit, helping to re-wire the agency’s ability to solve problems and improve service delivery through the lens of data.

Chris is Finance Director at Sidewalk Labs.

Drew Majkut builds Sidewalk Labs' engineering, product, and design teams. He previously worked at Oscar, where he helped grow the company's software engineering and risk departments.

Charlotte Matthews is Sidewalk Labs' Director of Sustainability. Charlotte has 20 years of experience in the development, design, construction, and operation of green buildings and distributed generation-energy infrastructure.

Davina is the Head of People at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Davina was the Vice President of People Continuity for AB InBev North America, where she led recruiting, talent management, and leadership development for the US and Canada.

Ayesha Menon is the Director of Real Estate Investments. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Ayesha was a Principal with Wheelock Street Capital.

James is Associate, City Operations, at Sidewalk Labs.

Amanda Meurer is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs, having previously worked at Earnest and Intel.

Trista Miller is an Associate Director of Investments at Sidewalk Labs, having previously worked at Goldman Sachs and the NYC Economic Development Corporation.

Nerissa Moray is Associate Director, Planning and Development.

Nina Nappa is an Executive Assistant at Sidewalk Labs.

Jen Neilands is an Associate of 307, based in Toronto. Jen is passionate about creating spaces where people can come together and celebrate their shared identities and interests.

Willa Ng is Director of Mobility – Streets, Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. Her background is in transportation engineering and community engagement, with a focus on parking and transportation demand management.

Moyosore Odubanjo an Associate Director of Finance at Sidewalk Labs, previously worked in accounting operations at Andela and Yext.

Douwe Osinga is a Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Michelle is Associate, Human Resources for Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Michelle worked for Accel Partners in Palo Alto.

Ananta is a Software Engineer on the urban prototyping team at Sidewalk Labs, joining the company from Birchbox.

Julie Pedtke is an Associate of Public Realm at Sidewalk Labs, where she leads strategy and piloting for the Outdoor Comfort toolkit.

Veronica is Director of Product Management for Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Veronica was a Group Product Manager at Mixpanel, where she led the Machine Learning team as well as the cross-functional Pricing and Customer Retention initiatives.

Alexei is a Director of Research leading the urban modeling effort for Model Lab.

Vanessa is Sidewalk Labs' Editorial Manager, coming to the team after stints at Metropolis Magazine and ArchDaily.

Prem Ramaswami is Head of Product at Sidewalk Labs. He comes to Sidewalk from Google, where he was a Product Manager for twelve years.

Keerthana Rang is a Communications Associate at Sidewalk Labs.

Marc Ricks is Head of Corporate Development at Sidewalk Labs, where his primary role is to help define and execute on the commercial strategy that will enable the company's innovation agenda to achieve the greatest possible impact on urban life around the world.

Dan Riegel is a Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. He has a lifelong belief that technology can improve the way we live on Earth.

Jesse is Director of Public Realm at Sidewalk Labs, where he leads the company’s human-centered design processes and helps teams explore ways to improve city life through new digital products.

Michael Shapiro is an Investment Associate at Sidewalk Labs. Before coming to us, Shapiro worked for MassAve Group. Before that he was a policy advisor for both Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Obama administration.

Josh Sirefman is Head of Development at Sidewalk Labs. Josh has spent his career at the forefront of the planning, negotiation and implementation of complex growth and development strategies across the public and private sectors.

Chris is the Fabrication Lead with Sidewalk Labs, helping to bring ideas into the physical realm with prototypes and experiments. Previously, Chris spent 11 years working for the America’s Cup team Oracle Racing, helping create the boats that won the 33rd and 34th cups.

Lauren Skelly is the Director of External Affairs. Before joining Sidewalk Labs, Lauren worked for 5 years as the Government Relations Manager at Google Canada.

Kabir is a Senior Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Previously, he worked for In-Q-Tel and started his own mobile AI company.

Sebastián is a software engineer at Sidewalk Labs with experience in big data and human-focused software.

David Stein is a software engineer at Sidewalk Labs. He previously worked at Braze and Dropbox.

Rachel Steinberg is a Senior Product Manager at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk Labs, she was the Chief Product Officer at Shortlist, a talent tech company in India and Kenya.

Jeff Tarr is a Principal Engineer at Sidewalk, focusing on environmental sensing in the public realm.

Bradley is the Associate Director of Sustainability at Sidewalk Labs.

Steven is a Associate Director, Development, on the real estate team at Sidewalk Labs.

Samara Trilling is a software engineer for Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, she built city data infrastructure and visualization tools for Google Fiber's community impact team and iOS and web apps for Google News.

Dan is Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Dan worked at Mt. Sinai’s HammerLab building open source tools for visualizing genomes and detecting genetic variants in cancers.

Michelle Velez is an Administrative Assistant for the Development team.

Megan is Director of Design and Communications for Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Megan managed product design and development projects at ustwo and Huge, Inc., creative agencies based in New York.

Leigh Whiting is Sidewalk Labs' Senior Visual Designer. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Leigh spent 5 years as a brand designer in the architecture visualization and real estate industries.

Violet Whitney is Associate Director of Design at Sidewalk Labs as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Landry Doyle Wiese is a Fall Associate of Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. She is currently a student at Columbia University working on a Master's in Public Administration.

Jonathan is the Head of Investments and Partnerships at Sidewalk, where he manages dedicated funds related to technology, real estate, and infrastructure.

Andrew is the Chief Operating Officer for Development. He has spent his career planning and building complex projects in urban environments, with a focus on public space, innovative architecture, and sustainability.

Alexis Wise is Director of Health and Human Services for Sidewalk Labs and is based in our Toronto office. Most recently, she worked at MaRS, North America's largest urban innovation hub.

John is a Senior Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs, working on digital identity, security, and privacy.
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