Dan Doctoroff is Chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs.

Dan was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of news and information to the global financial community, until December 2014. During his tenure at Bloomberg, Dan led the company through the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression by pursuing an aggressive strategy of investment, focused on enhancing the company’s core Terminal product, expanding into enterprise products and services, creating new businesses in government, law and energy, and building the company’s news operations, including its acquisition of Businessweek. During the seven years that he led the company, despite the financial crisis, Bloomberg’s organic revenues nearly doubled.

Prior to joining Bloomberg L.P., Dan served as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Dan led the city’s dramatic economic resurgence, spearheading the effort to reverse New York’s fiscal crisis after 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy. This plan included the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history; the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site; the largest affordable housing program ever launched by an American city; and the formation of new Central Business Districts and Industrial Business Zones. Dan also oversaw the creation of PlaNYC, New York’s pathbreaking sustainability plan.

Before joining the Bloomberg administration, Dan was Managing Partner of the private equity investment firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. While at Oak Hill, Dan founded NYC2012, the organization that spearheaded efforts to bring the Olympic Games to the city.

Dan serves on the Boards of the University of Chicago, World Resources Institute, United States Olympic Committee, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Human Rights First. He is the founder of Target ALS, which raises funds for and has established a new model of collaboration to advance ALS research. He is a founder and chairman of Culture Shed, an innovative new cultural institution at the Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Dan is a graduate of Harvard College and The Law School at the University of Chicago. A native of Michigan, Dan has lived in New York for the past 32 years with his wife, Alisa. The Doctoroffs have three grown children.

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 for the New York metropolitan area.

Previously, Rit spent five years at Bloomberg Philanthropies in several related roles. He headed the sustainability practice at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consulting firm that serves city governments; was Special Advisor to the Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group during Mayor Bloomberg’s chairmanship of the organization, spearheading its transformation into a global leader; and he inaugurated the Bloomberg Philanthropies environment program, which grew to a total of $145 million in grants under his management.

From 2006 to 2010, Rit served as Director of New York City’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, where he led the creation and implementation of “PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York.” PlaNYC has been hailed as one of the world’s best urban sustainability plans, leading New York City to a 19% reduction in its carbon footprint since 2005. Prior to joining City Hall, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Rit holds a BA, MBA, and PhD from Columbia University, and an MA from Queen’s University in Ontario. He was born in New York City, where he now lives.

Jack Amadeo is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

He joined Sidewalk after working at Compass, a real estate tech company, where he built applications to improve an experience many New Yorkers loathe: finding a new home. Before that, he was an engineer at Bloomberg working on high-performance collaboration, messaging, and internal CRM products.

A native New Englander, Jack came to New York to study Math at New York University and has called the city his home ever since. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, with whom he can usually be found exploring the city on foot or by bicycle.

Chris Anderson joins Sidewalk Labs as a software engineer focused on urban prototyping. He last worked at The Office for Creative Research, where he built mapping robots, democratized ad-trackers, and immersive data experiences. Before that, he ran a vagabond software consultancy and was a product manager at Google.

Eric is a Designer-in-Residence at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Eric served as the Design Lead for a Special Projects group at Google focused on innovation in urban infrastructure and the built environment.

Prior to Google, Eric was a Senior Interaction Designer at frog, leading a number of client engagements across the fields of Hospitality, Healthcare, and Financial Services, as well as spearheading a thought leadership initiative called Aging in Place, focused on immersive home technology for seniors.

Before his time at frog, Eric was the GE research fellow at MIT’s Senseable City Lab, a designer at Foster+Partners in London, and a nominee for the Prix de Rome. Originally from Calgary, Canada, Eric has a B.Sc in Enivronmental Science from the University of Calgary, a M.Arch from Dalhousie University and a M.Des from Harvard University.

Brian is Director of Infrastructure Investments at Sidewalk Labs, where he leads the investment, finance, and partnership activity for our infrastructure initiatives, including relationships with pensions funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, and asset management firms. Brian is responsible for defining, designing, and implementing new funding models, infrastructure finance, and delivery methods for Sidewalk Labs and its project in Toronto—one of the largest and most complex urban development projects in North America. In addition, Brian leads the evaluation of emerging technologies and services enabling new standards of innovation, sustainability, and affordability in infrastructure, including new construction materials and building and delivery methodologies.

Previously, Brian spent 11 years with the American Infrastructure Fund; he was a Managing Director and senior member of the team since its formation. He was instrumental in the development of many innovative tax efficient capital formation strategies, partnerships, and investments aimed at solving the U.S.’s complex urban infrastructure challenges.

Prior to the American Infrastructure Fund, Brian worked at Scion Capital, a Cupertino-based private investment fund investing in public, private, and structured derivative markets worldwide. Earlier in his career, Brian helped launch and manage Broadview Capital Partners, a Bay Area-based venture capital fund, where he led the fund’s communications and fiber network investments.

Brian holds an MBA in Real Estate & Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington. He serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell’s Program in Infrastructure Policy.

Brian was born and raised in Seattle. He previously lived in New York City, but has called Silicon Valley his home for the past 20 years. He resides in Atherton, CA with his wife and five children. When he’s not thinking about how to change the world through intelligent infrastructure, he enjoys personal pursuits such as hiking, mountaineering, and (according to his wife) skiing way too fast for his age.

Marie Buckingham is Associate Director, Product and Engineering, at Sidewalk Labs. Passionate about energy and the climate, she’s worked on renewable energy policy with the Masdar Institute for the United Arab Emirates, as a senior fellow with the Institute on Science for Global Policy, and as a researcher for Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Marie studied environmental management and economics at Indiana University, and recently completed an MPA in environmental science and policy at Columbia University. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and now lives in Brooklyn. She loves to climb rocks, go on short runs, and experiment with cooking.

Alisa Burnett is the Payroll Manager for Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Alisa worked for Droga5, an independent advertising agency on Wall Street. A native New Yorker, Alisa is passionate about her community, public education, and her Caribbean roots. In her free time, you can find Alisa teaching science to TASC students, cheering for Chelsea FC, or searching for cream cheese sales so she can bake cheesecakes.

Kat is a Senior Software Engineer in Sidewalk’s Model Lab.

Before joining Sidewalk she worked at Dropbox where she tech led the company’s web performance efforts. She also worked on shared mobile infrastructure for Dropbox’s mobile apps and on the Dropbox desktop client.

Kat is a native of New York City. She moved to California to study Computer Science at Stanford University where she earned a BS in Systems and an MS in AI.

Matt is an Associate Product Manager at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, he was a Senior Associate Consultant for Bain & Company’s San Francisco office, where he worked on a variety of technology, alternative investment, and energy projects.

Matt earned an Sc.B in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. While at Brown, he co-founded the Techstyle Haus team, which built the world’s first Passivehaus-certified house with a textile enclosure.

Originally from Boston, Matt is one of those Boston sports fans and a stalwart Tom Brady defender. He also likes backpacking, skiing, playing piano, and seeing live music around his Greenwich Village neighborhood.

Laura Capucilli is an Associate, Development at Sidewalk Labs. She began her career in New York City government as an Urban Fellow turned Policy Advisor for City Hall’s operations team. Following the end of the Bloomberg administration, Laura served as a project manager on the renovation and repositioning of the New York Public Library’s flagship branch at Bryant Park.

Laura graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Public Policy and a Minor in Human Rights. She recently earned an MBA from NYU Stern. While at Stern, Laura worked with the Marron Institute’s Urbanization Project on a sustainable development plan for a city in central Ethiopia and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with its international department. Laura is a morning person, foodie, dog person, and cellist.

Nick is Head of Sidewalk’s Model Lab. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Nick was co-founder and CEO of Flux, a spinout from Google[x] building software tools to help architects and engineers design more efficiently and sustainably.

An entrepreneur at heart, Nick worked at two startups (Aardvark, acquired by Google, and Big Tent, acquired by Care.com) prior to joining Google in engineering and product leadership roles.

Nick holds a B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from UC-Davis and an M.S. degree in Aero/Astro from Stanford University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and young daughter.

Alyssa Harvey Dawson is General Counsel, Head of Legal, at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Alyssa was a Vice President in Legal at Harman International Industries, the audio and connected car company. While at Harman, Alyssa managed a global team of attorneys, paralegals, and technology specialists and developed the global IP strategy, working closely with Harman’s corporate technology office and business divisions. As part of the IP strategy, she established a revenue-generating business segment focused on deriving additional value from Harman’s many technologies, brands and patents.

Prior to Harman, Alyssa was at Netflix, where she worked with the business and product development teams on putting in place the strategy and complex licensing agreements that put Netflix on every major consumer electronics device. She also developed the IP strategy, focusing on strategic patenting and globalizing the company’s trademarks. Alyssa also worked at Autodesk, where she served as division counsel to multiple business units and lead counsel for sales and operations; led on several important acquisitions for the company; and advised on general corporate law, product marketing, copyright, privacy, open-source matters, and sales and distribution agreements.

Alyssa was in private practice for five years at the law firms of Latham & Watkins and Cooley Godward, and she worked on broadcast and communications deals, practiced before the FCC, did venture capital financings on both the company and VC side, and worked on securities filings for public companies.

Alyssa earned her undergraduate degree with honors from the Honors College at Michigan State University and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated cum laude and was an editor on the Georgetown Law Journal. Alyssa has served on the Advisory Board for the Women, Influence and Power in Law conference, has played an active role in ChIPs, serves on the Advisory Board for the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, and is a member of the Michigan State University Honors College Alumni Board.

Born in Gary, Indiana, Alyssa grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Connecticut with her husband and son. She enjoys family bike rides, teaching her son card games, watching him play baseball and soccer, cheering on the Raiders, and getting beat at chess (on occasion) by her son.

Mike Delucia is an Associate Director of Investments at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Mike was a Vice President at Macquarie Bank, where he financed power, clean technology, and other energy companies. Previously he was an associate at Nereus Capital, a fund investing in sustainable infrastructure in South Asia. Mike began his career at JP Morgan covering biotech and healthcare services companies.

He graduated from Brown University, where he studied economics and philosophy. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, music, and board games.

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

Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Carrie spent three years as part of IBM’s Smarter Cities team, focusing on intelligent transportation applications. Before IBM, Carrie was a Lorry I. Lokey Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund, where she worked on sustainable transportation at the California and federal levels.

Carrie has published articles on sustainable urbanism and GIS in Biological Conservation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Nature Conservancy’s Science Chronicles. She’s conducted research for a wide range of think tanks and organizations, including the Brookings Institution, Bloomberg Associates, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research, and Bombay First. She also spent time during her MBA at China Vanke, China’s largest residential real estate developer.

Carrie has a BA, MA, and MBA from Stanford University, where she was an Academic All-American on the sailing team. She loves hot sauce and is always searching for new flavors.

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. In this role, she set the city’s economic development agenda and managed fiscal policy. Prior to her role in the Mayor’s Office, Shaina was the Director of the Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs, Mayor Emanuel’s economic development plan for the City of Chicago.

Before working with the City of Chicago, Shaina was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office. As a Public Sector Fellow, she led work in the public and social sector offices on a variety of strategic and reform topics including economic development, higher education, and infrastructure.

She holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame. Shaina lives in Chicago with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys traveling, running, and skiing, and is proud of her Minnesota heritage.

Cara is an Associate on the Planning and 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. At ReD, Cara managed and worked on long-term strategy projects for a diverse spread of clients, ranging from a major toy company to a global consumer electronics manufacturer. She is also a Young Explorer for National Geographic, and took a sabbatical from work to study the post-war redevelopment of Sarajevo.

Cara graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she concentrated on urban studies. She is a native New Yorker with newfound biking skills and a strong affinity for Danish design.

Kael is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. 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.

Kael holds master’s degrees from MIT’s Engineering Systems Division and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. At MIT, Kael worked as a researcher in the Senseable City Lab to develop algorithms for understanding human mobility patterns with data. Kael also holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California San Diego, and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Art from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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

Before joining Sidewalk, Johanna led the development of Greenpoint Landing, a large-scale project along the Brooklyn waterfront. Prior to that Johanna served in ​Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration ​on both the Operations and Economic Development teams — focusing on land use, affordable housing, and transportation. ​Before City Hall, Johanna practiced land use and development law, guiding​ private real estate projects through public review.  

Johanna earned a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Georgetown University.​

Michelle Ha Tucker is Principal Designer at Sidewalk Labs. Originally trained as an architect, she aims to develop the practice at the intersection of public sector innovation, urban design, and technology. She most recently led the design team at Flux.io, a software startup incubated inside of Google[x] that helps architects design and build more efficiently.

Prior to Flux, Michelle was a director at IDEO, guiding user-centered design teams and establishing a public sector portfolio of work in the Chicago office. Her clients have included the Chicago Public Libraries, American Express, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the TSA.

She is actively involved in arts and design education–she’s served on the board of the Hyde Park Art Center and spent a year reimagining design curriculum at RISD. She holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard and degrees in Architecture and Management from MIT. Originally from the Bay Area, she’s excited to explore all that NYC and Toronto has to offer with her husband and young daughter.

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. In 2014 he edited a year-long series called the Future of Transportation, which explored what tomorrow will hold for metro area mobility.

Eric has contributed to many publications as a freelancer, including Fast Company, where he wrote a regular Co.Design column called Evidence. He’s also the author of two books, including The King’s Best Highway (Scribner, 2010), a social history of U.S. transportation.

Eric holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MS in journalism from Columbia University. Originally from Washington, D.C., he’s lived in New York since 2008, and no longer knows if he’s a Washingtonian or a New Yorker.

Alison Maddox oversees operations for the investments and partnerships team at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, she was manager and coach at several CrossFit gyms in the New York City area. She graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Italian studies and blames her degree for her coffee obsession and pasta snobbery. She loves her current neighborhood, the West Village.

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.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Justin received his B.A. from SUNY Binghamton in Philosophy. In his free time, Justin enjoys running with his dog, reading about history, and cooking.

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.

Michael previously worked in Mayor Bloomberg’s office as a senior advisor to the New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. In that capacity, he managed relations between the Mayor’s Office and the city’s Economic Development Corporation, coordinated area-wide planning and economic development initiatives through the five boroughs, and served as the city’s point person for the development of the new Yankee Stadium, CitiField, and the Barclays Center.

Before joining the Bloomberg Administration, Michael was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company where he focused on addressing both strategic and operating issues for media and telecommunications firms.

Michael received his BA in Political Science and Urban Studies from Brown University and his JD from Harvard Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

David Katz is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Before joining Sidewalk, David worked on Google Search in New York where he helped to improve both the quality and freshness of the content ranking within knowledge panels.

David completed his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union. His research focused on augmenting an approximate nearest neighbors index in order to efficiently support user interaction within recommendation systems.

In his free time, David is a both a table tennis and strategy game enthusiast. He also enjoys tinkering with electronics. Recently, David was invited to China to showcase String2String, his low cost alternative to a smartboard, in the US-China Young Maker Competition.

Tim Kau is Associate Director of Communication Design at Sidewalk Labs.

Tim spent 12 years in the advertising industry as a visual designer, working with clients including Nike, Chase, Citi, and Coca-Cola.

Tim graduated with honors from UC Berkeley, where he bought his first pair of Birkenstocks. Today, he prefers to wear Converse or Vans.  He currently lives in NYC with his wife Grace, two sons Jonah and Isaiah, and puppy Chuy.

Tom is a 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.  ReFactory was born out of Tom’s experience with EnergyHub, the first company he co-founded, where as CTO and Director of Hardware Engineering, he led the development and manufacturing of an energy management ecosystem of connected devices.  Tom sat on EnergyHub’s Board of Directors up until its acquisition by Alarm.com.

Before Tom’s entrepreneurial endeavors, he was an Electrical Engineer at Honeybee Robotics, where he worked as the lead Electrical Engineer for the Sample Manipulation System, a critical subsystem of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, which continues to operate aboard the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.  Tom earned his Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

When Tom isn’t designing hardware, he loves spending time with his family and cooking overly complicated meals.  As a side project, he is creating an iPad-like toy for his toddler son that incorporates more external buttons, knobs, and lights than he’ll know what to do with.

Karim is Director of Building Innovations for Sidewalk Labs. He has spent his career in the design and construction world, most recently leading the global hotel innovation and design team at Marriott, where he launched the company’s first innovation lab/collaborative design space (The Underground). While at Marriott, he also led the LEED Volume Build program for hotels and launched Marriott’s global modular construction initiative.

Prior to joining Marriott, he managed Parsons Corporation’s South American engineering practice in Lima, Peru and earlier worked in Bechtel’s power and water resource group in the U.S. and overseas.

Karim served in the U.S. Peace Corps as the Western Regional engineer for The Honduran Ministry of Health working in sanitation and vaccine distribution. While he is not tinkering in his workshop, Karim can be found scoping out his next remote adventure.

Sven is Senior Data Scientist at Sidewalk Labs. He previously led the machine-learning efforts at the New York-based startup Wildcard, where he worked on structured learning problems, topic modeling, and content recommendation. Prior to Wildcard, Sven developed statistical tools and methods used in particle physics research.

Sven grew up in Germany and studied mathematical physics at the University of Edinburgh before earning his PhD in physics at New York University. For his research in particle physics he spent a year at CERN in Switzerland and was on the core team that discovered the Higgs boson.

Micah Lasher is Head of Policy & Communications for Sidewalk Labs, where he oversees public policy and communications, drawing on his experiences at the intersection of government and technology.

Before joining Sidewalk, Micah served as Chief of Staff to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, where he helped run a staff of 1,800 people responsible for the state’s legal affairs and for legal advocacy on behalf of residents. In this role, he worked extensively on formulating new regulatory approaches to emerging technology and on issues related to data privacy and security.

Previously, Micah was Director of State Legislative Affairs for the City of New York under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, where he was responsible for advancing New York City’s comprehensive legislative agenda. Prior to his work at City Hall, Micah served as a top official in the New York City school system, an aide to Congressman Jerry Nadler, and a founding partner of KnickerbockerSKD, a strategic communications consultancy.

Micah serves on the boards of 
the Community Service Society, New York’s leading anti-poverty organization, and the Riverside
 Park Conservancy, as well as on the Leadership Council of Tech:NYC. He earned a BA in sociology from New York University. A lifelong New Yorker who finally broke down and learned how to drive in December 2016, Micah lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.

Sara J. Lewis is Director, Legal of Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Sara was a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where her practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities law matters. There she advised both public and private companies as well as private equity firms on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, carve-outs, restructurings, joint ventures, investments, financings, leveraged buyouts, and other complex capital market transactions.

Sara received an Honors B.A. in Philosophy and Women’s Studies, summa cum laude, from St. Louis University and her J.D., summa cum laude with Order of the Coif distinction, from Stanford Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Sara loves living in New York City and can often be seen walking her dog, Buster, in the West Village.

Chris is Finance Director at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to Sidewalk, Chris has been working with Alphabet/Google since 2013. He was part of Deloitte’s CFO Program, which aimed to develop next generation finance leaders, and focused on finance org and op models following CFO transitions. He started his career working with local, state, and federal governments to execute large-scale infrastructure programs, ranging from disaster recovery programs in Louisiana, Colorado, and Texas, to the World Cup in Qatar.

Chris was born in Canada, and has two younger sisters. He has lived in New York City since 2005, and people thought he was crazy for studying Architecture and Economics as an undergrad. He currently resides in the Financial District with his partner Matthew and their two cats. He is passionate about the intersection of infrastructure, technology, and finance, and the impact it will have on communities and the people who live in them.

Drew Majkut is an Associate, Talent, building Sidewalk Labs’ engineering, product, and design teams. Before Sidewalk, he helped to grow Oscar’s software engineering and risk departments. He is passionate about employer brand, candidate experience, and building scalable operations.

Drew is originally from Massachusetts. He graduated from Connecticut College summa cum laude with a degree in International Relations and studied abroad at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi. A washed-up long distance runner, Drew loves carbs and gin and tonics. He lives on the Upper East Side with his fish.

James is Associate, City Operations, at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, James was a consultant in Bain & Company’s New York office. While there he worked across a range of industries including insurance, healthcare, consumer goods, and retail. He also did a seven-month rotation in Bain’s private equity consulting group, working with funds to assess prospective investments.

James was raised just outside Manhattan in Englewood, New Jersey. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, going to concerts, traveling, and catching the latest movies. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in History.

Trista Miller is an Associate of Investments at Sidewalk Labs. Most recently, Trista worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking in Sydney and New York. Prior to that, she worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Trista has an MBA from Cornell and a BA from Yale. In her spare time, she loves running, hiking, SCUBA diving, and snowboarding.

Craig is Head of Engineering at Sidewalk Labs, leading the engineering team – which focuses on developing new urban technologies – and working with portfolio companies to develop their engineering teams and technology. Before joining Sidewalk Labs, he founded Google’s first remote engineering center, located in New York City. In his role as Engineering Director at Google, he oversaw the development of products including Google Local (now Maps) and Froogle (now Google Shopping), as well as features of web search such as Question Answering and Web Definitions.

As engineering director of Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, he co-founded Google.org’s Flu Trends and Crisis Response projects, providing maps, imagery and a missing persons service after crises in Japan and elsewhere.

Prior to joining Google in 2000, he was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Biochemistry Department at Stanford University. He is the author of 44 peer-reviewed academic publications, and was awarded a Career Grant by the National Science Foundation for work combining information retrieval and computational biology.

A native of New Zealand, he earned a BSc in Computer Science from Canterbury University and a PhD in Computer Science from Waikato University. Passionate about great coffee, he co-founded Happy Bones café in Little Italy with his wife Kirsten and partners from New Zealand.

Nina Nappa is an Executive Assistant at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, she worked as a corporate immigration Paralegal at Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP in New York City. Nina graduated with honors in International Relations from Boston University, where she focused on International Systems and World Order.

Originally from Rhode Island, Nina enjoys traveling, hiking, and binge watching TV series on Netflix with her 16-year-old cat, Zeno. She spends her free time discovering up-and-coming restaurants and trying as many international candies as possible—though gummy candy is her ultimate weakness. In her past life, Nina was an active oil painter and volunteered teaching English classes and job skills to refugees. She is always excited to chat about current events/diversifying her Spotify playlist.

Neda Navab is the Associate Director, Urban Systems, at Sidewalk Labs.

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

At the City of Berkeley, Willa implemented a demand-responsive parking program, as well as transit and biking programs, under the city’s goBerkeley pilot. Willa previously worked at the New York City Department of Transportation managing the PARK Smart value-pricing program, the parking technology pilot program, two community-based transportation pilots, and the congestion pricing proposal environmental review.

Willa began as a transportation engineer at AECOM. She graduated from UC-Berkeley with an MS in transportation engineering and from MIT with BS degrees in civil engineering and management. She is a proud native New Yorker and recreational eater.

Moyosore Odubanjo is Sidewalk Labs’ Finance and Accounting Manager. Previously, Moyosore assisted in scaling accounting operations at Andela and at Yext, up through its pre-IPO stage. Prior to Yext, she managed the accounting department for the international operations of Motley Fool.

Moyosore is originally from Lagos, Nigeria and has lived in several cities across the U.S., including Atlanta and Washington, D.C., before settling in Brooklyn. She graduated with a BA in Finance and Accounting from Georgia State University and an MA in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.

When not at work, Moyosore enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

Douwe Osinga is a Senior Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Before joining Google as a software engineer in 2004, Douwe started various companies in his native Netherlands. After stints in California, Zurich, India, and Sydney working on Search, Mobile and finally Google Wave, he ran Triposo, your favorite mobile travel guide from Berlin, for the last 5 years.

Michelle is Associate, Human Resources for Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Michelle worked for Accel Partners in Palo Alto. Originally from California, Michelle completed her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Education at the University of California, Davis. Michelle spends her free time going to concerts, overpaying for almond milk lattes, and traveling.

Ananta is a Software Engineer on the urban prototyping team at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Ananta spent three and a half years at Birchbox, primarily working on the client-side engineering team to rearchitect the birchbox.com front end in React.

Ananta has a BA in Computer Science from Barnard College and enjoys cooking and hiking. She lives in LIC with her husband and their very outgoing Norwich terrier.

Vanessa is Editorial Manager of Sidewalk Labs. She was previously the web editor for Metropolis, where she covered everything from VR’s burgeoning relevance to architecture to the integration of refugees into American legacy cities. Before that, Vanessa was a managing editor at ArchDaily, the world’s most visited architecture site, headquartered in Santiago, Chile. She has also contributed to numerous online publications, including Quartz, Wired, and Atlas Obscura.

Vanessa holds an MA in Arts & Culture Journalism from Columbia University and a BA in English Literature and Music from the George Washington University. When she’s not writing, editing, or thinking about cities, she’s probably traveling, cycling around the city, singing harmonies, or listening to podcasts.

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.

Before joining Sidewalk, Dan was a Product Manager at Google, shaping the mobile data technology deployed to over 2 billion Android phones worldwide. Prior to Google, Dan was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at Scoot, a transportation startup providing the fastest, easiest, cheapest, and funnest (yes) way to get around cities. As CTO, he wrote or designed the whole system and built an exceptional engineering team to drive the company’s remarkable growth. He also managed development of the hardware platform, built relationships in the transportation ecosystem, and spent a great deal of time on Sand Hill Road. Prior to Scoot, he was co-founder and Software Director at EnergyHub, an energy management startup, preceded by 5 years in software development for the financial services industry.

Dan holds a B.S. in physics from Yale University and lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. His hobbies include backpacking, making, carpentry, running, cycling, and skiing. In his free time, he enjoys travel, cooking, and teaching his beautiful daughter (and anyone else who is interested) quantum mechanics, psychology, and sustainability.

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. Before joining Sidewalk, Jesse was Director of Product at BuzzFeed, where he worked closely with journalists, entertainers, and tech teams to push the boundaries of content and technology.

For over a decade, Jesse Shapins has been a leading designer and entrepreneur at the intersection of media, technology, and place. In 2004, before smartphones, Jesse invented Yellow Arrow, one of the first platforms to globally connect physical locations, digital media and communities. Jesse is co-founder of Mapping Main Street, a documentary arts project that tells the stories of the over 10,466 streets named Main Street across the United States; co-founder of UnionDocs, one of the nation’s leading centers for documentary arts, based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; co-founder and CEO of GoPop, a platform for visual conversation that was acquired by BuzzFeed in 2014; and co-founder and CEO of Zeega, a pioneering web platform empowering anyone to tell interactive stories by mixing their own media with maps, video clips, memes, and anything else they could find online.

Jesse holds a BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in Urbanism and Critical Media Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He co-founded metaLAB (at) Harvard, a research venture based at the GSD and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society that bridges humanities, urbanism, and technology. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, PRAXIS and Wired, cited in books such as The Sentient City and Networked Locality, and been exhibited at MoMA, SFMoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues.

Michael Shapiro is an Investment Associate at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to Sidewalk, he worked for MassAve Group, a family office in Washington, D.C. focused on long-term investments in business and health services companies. Before that, Michael was Economic Policy Advisor for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, where he co-led economic policy on job creation, competition policy, fiscal and tax matters, healthcare, and manufacturing and trade. He previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House National Economic Council in the Obama Administration and held roles at the Office of Management and Budget, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Treasury Department.

Michael Sindelar is a senior engineer in Sidewalk Labs’ Model Lab.

He was previously in a backend engineering role at Uber, where he worked on the serving infrastructure that exposes microservice APIs to mobile apps. Prior to that he worked at Google for seven years on a range of a teams focused on social and user modeling problems.

He lives in the mission district of San Francisco and enjoys hiking, scuba, and photography.

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. For the past year he’s worked on special projects with Google and Google X.

Growing up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest that was obsessed with wooden boats left Chris with a deep appreciation of materials and building processes. From there, the University of Washington and stints living in New Zealand and Spain helped create a worldview for varied urban and rural environments.

Kabir joins Sidewalk as a Senior Engineer, working on new ideas for Sidewalk to incubate. Previously, he worked for In-Q-Tel, the technology investor for the United States Intelligence Community, and started a mobile AI company.

A native New Yorker, Kabir grew up in Queens — enjoying the food of every country in the world — and went to Stuyvesant High School, where he discovered a love of Science & Technology. Afterwards, he followed his fascination with Quidditch, the TARDIS, and all things ancient to New College, Oxford, from where he holds a Masters degree in Computer Science.

In his spare time, Kabir can often be found playing with crazy and ambitious technology, like Synthetic Biology, blockchains, and AI. (Be careful when asking about this, because he can go on and on and on.) When not pretending to be a mad scientist, he’s nursing a serious fiction addiction, holding court with his cat and two dogs, and swimming.

Sebastián is a software engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Sebastian spent some years working at startups. First he explored the open source, big data landscape, helping libraries to make big data applications easier to write and run. Afterwards he went to work in healthcare technology, writing software that gives oncologists a better understanding of their patients’ treatments and results.

Originating under the sunny skies of Southern California, he eventually traveled north to study Computer Science at Stanford, where he programmed robotic arms to play mini golf and coordinated Raspberry Pis into distributed systems. Outside of the office Sebastian enjoys developing film, kneading bread, and jogging (briskly).

Andrew Staniforth is an Associate, Development at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Andrew was a Vice President of Development at Forest City Ratner Companies, where he managed the renovation that transformed the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Beginning his career at Forest City, Andrew has worked on residential, retail, and commercial projects with a focus on public-private partnerships. In addition to his work in development, Andrew was involved in the operation of Forest City’s sports and entertainment portfolio, including the management and strategic disposition of Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets.

Andrew studied real estate, finance, and computer science in The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with dual degrees from The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

David Stein is a software engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

He most recently worked as a director of engineering at Braze, a marketing automation software company. Before that, he worked at Dropbox in San Francisco, where he took on a number of projects, including building the in-house data analytics suite, security incident response, product prototyping, and automation of sales and support.

David was born and raised in Vermont. His research at MIT focused on distributed robotics.

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

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Jeff was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Junction, a company that brought “Internet of Things” sensors to buildings to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. As CTO, he was responsible for software development, hardware design, and manufacturing with teams in America, China, India, and the Ukraine. Jeff has worked in the technology industry for over 25 years in technology research, “smart home” design, and hardware development at Apple and other firms.

Jeff grew up on the Upper West Side and has a B.A. from Harvard in Computer Science. He still lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Amy, and three children, Gigi, Penelope, and Theodore. In his free time he races cars, flies airplanes, runs marathons, and builds gadgets to make parenting easier.

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

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Steven was a consultant at Deloitte, where his work focused at the intersection of the public and private sectors, specifically regional economic competitiveness and economic growth driven by innovation. He began his career as part of the Teach for America Hawaii corps, where he taught 7th grade on Wheeler Army Airfield in Wahiawa, Oahu.

Steven graduated with a degree in American Studies from Cornell University. He currently lives in Union Square, equidistant from the running paths on the East and West side, but lamentably far from a surf break.

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.

Samara graduated from Columbia University with a degree in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence, and a concentration in history. She worked with Professor Eric Foner on original research into Columbia University and New York City’s ties to the slave trade. In high school, Samara interned for Senator Barbara Boxer, Representative Anna Eshoo and State Senator Joe Simitian.

Samara is from the Bay Area and loves hiking trails with great views, books on the history of computing, beautiful stationery, and playing ’60s folk music on guitar.

Dan is Senior 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. Before Mt. Sinai, Dan spent eight years at Google, primarily working on projects involving web search and search logs analysis. He was involved in creating quick answers and visualizations for queries such as “when does the sun set” or “how many people live in NYC” Dan was also part of the team that built Google Flu Trends and Google Correlate, a tool for discovering patterns in search activity.

Dan has a long history of developing a variety of digital side projects. The most recent of which was OldNYC, a collaboration with the New York Public Library which placed tens of thousands of historic photos on a map.

Dan is a native of South Bend, Indiana. He studied Math and Computer Science at Rice University. Since 2010, he has been based in Brooklyn, where he can frequently be found cycling, climbing, running and throwing frisbees.

Ryan Vilim is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, he worked as a Data Scientist at a Swiss startup called Axon Vibe, where he used machine learning to interpret and predict user behavior. Ryan has a Masters and PhD in physics from the University of Toronto. His doctoral work focused on using supercomputer simulations to study the mechanism behind the magnetic fields of planets, trying to answer the question: “Why does a compass point north?” In his spare time, Ryan enjoys rock climbing, cooking, and doing pretty much anything outdoors.

Jonathan is a Head of Investments at Sidewalk, where he leads investments and partnerships related to innovative urban infrastructure. He previously founded Nereus, a private equity fund that invests in alternative energy infrastructure in Asia. Prior to Nereus, Jonathan worked at the D. E. Shaw group. Jonathan graduated from Yale with a degree in Philosophy and lives in New York.

Andrew is the Director of Delivery for Built Environment and Chief Operating Officer for Development.