WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Former
Governor of Pennsylvania and first
Secretary of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Thomas J. Ridge, and financier R. Brad Lane announce new team members at
RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners:
- Anthony "Tony" Scott: Managing Partner, Information
Technology – appointed by President Barack Obama as the 3rd Chief
Information Officer (Federal CIO) for the U.S. Government, where he
was responsible for modernizing IT systems, infrastructure, digital
transformation, cybersecurity, open data and IT strategy across the
federal government. Prior, Tony served as the CIO and Senior Vice
President of VMware, Inc., the CIO and Corporate Vice President of
Microsoft Corporation, the CIO and Senior Vice President of The
Walt Disney Co, and the Chief Technology Officer at General Motors
Corporation.
- Molly Corbett Broad:
Partner, Education – former President (currently
President Emeritus) of the American Council on Education (ACE) from
2008 to 2018. Prior to, she was the President of the University of North Carolina System, where she led
a multi-campus university system composed of 16 public
universities. Prior to, she served in executive positions at
institutes for higher education, including the California State University system, the
University of Arizona, and Syracuse University.
- Kate Gordon: Partner,
Sustainability – is a nationally recognized expert on
the intersection of clean energy and economic development, and on
issues related to climate change and sustainable economic growth,
serving as a Senior Advisor at the Paulson Institute, and Fellow of
the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia
University. She was Senior Vice President for Climate and
Energy at Next Generation, Vice President of Energy and Environment
at the Center for American Progress, Co-Executive Director of the
national Apollo Alliance, and serves
on the non-profit boards of Vote Solar, Center for Carbon Removal,
and the American Jobs Project.
- Marcus H. Sachs: Partner,
Information Technology – served on the National Security
Council, the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board,
and as Chief of National Cyber Security Division for U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he was responsible for
developing the implementation plan for the National Strategy to
Secure Cyberspace and the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team
(US-CERT). Mr. Sachs' private sector experience includes serving as
the Deputy Director of SRI International's Computer Science
Laboratory, as well as the Vice President for National Security
Policy at Verizon Communications, and as the Senior Vice President
and Chief Security Officer of the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC).
- Ellen
McDermott: Partner, Information Technology
– an expert in R&D programs leading to commercialization, with
a focus on secure interoperation of heterogeneous networks and
security related protocols, with service including: security
architect at the National Security Agency (NSA), the Defense
Research Project Agency's Survivable Adaptive Network program, and
at the Digital Equipment Corporation; with Open Vision and Open
Market Inc. where she analyzed and identified security flaws and
designed a security infrastructure supporting next generation
products leading to successful IPO's for both companies. She also
served as a security architect at IBM, a security architect at
Microsoft, as well as Corporate Vice President and Chief
Information Risk Officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Governor Bill Ritter:
Venture Partner, Sustainability – the most recent
Governor of Colorado, where he led
the state to become a leader in renewable energy by building a New
Energy Economy, which created thousands of new jobs and established
hundreds of new companies; enacted an aggressive
business-development and job-creation agenda that is focused on
knowledge-based industries of the future such as energy, aerospace,
biosciences, information technology. Governor Ritter is the
Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE) at
Colorado State University.
- Secretary Tom Vilsack:
Venture Partner, Sustainability – the most recent U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture from 2009 until 2017, where he
strengthened the American agricultural economy, build vibrant rural
communities and create new markets for the tremendous innovation of
rural America. Prior to his cabinet appointment, he served two
terms as the Governor of Iowa, and
prior to that in the Iowa State Senate and as the Mayor of
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
- The Hon. Dan Arvizu:
Venture Partner, Sustainability – an international
expert in advanced energy research and development, materials and
process sciences, and technology commercialization. Dr. Arvizu
served as Director (currently Director Emeritus) of the U.S.
Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Prior
to, he led Sandia National Laboratories, as: Director of Materials
and Process Sciences, Director of Advanced Energy Technology and
Policy, Director of Technology Transfer and Policy, including as a
Member of the Board of Directors of Sandia Corporation. Dr. Arvizu
serves on the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory
Council, and is Chairman of the National Science Board of
the United States, which oversees
the National Science Foundation.
- The Hon. Arun Majumdar:
Senior Advisor, Sustainability – Dr. Majumdar is the Jay
Precourt Professor at Stanford
University, and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for
Energy, which integrates and coordinates research across all seven
Schools and the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Dr. Majumdar was nominated by President
Obama and confirmed by the Senate to become the Founding Director
of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), where
he helped ARPA-E become a model of excellence for the government
and external stakeholders. He also served as the Acting Under
Secretary of Energy, with oversight of: Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and
Reliability, Office of Nuclear Energy and the Office of Fossil
Energy. Dr. Majumdar was the Vice President for Energy at Google,
where he created several energy technology initiatives, especially
at the intersection of data, computing and electricity grid.
Previously, Dr. Majumdar was the Almy & Agnes Maynard Chair
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &
Engineering at University of California–Berkeley and the Associate
Laboratory Director for energy and environment at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory.
- Dmitri
Alperovitch: Venture Partner, Information
Technology – a renowned computer security researcher,
thought-leader on cybersecurity policies and state tradecraft. He
is the Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., leading its
Intelligence, Technology and Labs teams. Prior to, Dmitri was a
Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee, where he led company's
global Internet threat intelligence analysis and investigations. He
led the global team that investigated and brought to light
Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT groundbreaking
cyberespionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names.
Mr. Alperovitch received the prestigious recognition of being
selected as MIT's "Young Innovators
under 35" an award previously won by such technology luminaries as
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark
Zuckerberg and Jonathan Ive.
He was named Foreign Policy Magazine's Leading Global Thinker, an
award shared with Secretary of State John
Kerry, Elon Musk and
Jeff Bezos.
- The Hon. Michael Nutter:
Venture Partner, Public-Private Partnerships –
Michael A. Nutter was elected the
98th Mayor of his Philadelphia, after serving 15 years on the
Philadelphia City Council. Mayor Nutter served as President of the
United States Conference of Mayors, which is the official
non-partisan organization of almost 1,300 U.S. cities with
populations of 30,000 or more. He strengthened federal-city
relationships and promoted the development of effective national
urban policy. Mayor Nutter is a Professor at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at Bloomberg
Philanthropies, an Advisory Board Member of Urban Labs at University of
Chicago, and a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution.
"I am excited to have such distinguished leaders join
us" said Governor Tom Ridge, "as we expand the
company in support of our mission to drive positive outcomes in
society, at the intersection of private innovation, investment
capital, and government. We are proud to announce our new
team members."
RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners:
RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners is a strategic advisory and venture
development firm founded by financier R. Brad Lane and The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge –
focused on solving grand challenges in Education,
Sustainability, and Information Technology – with a team of
General Partners, Operating Partners, and Senior Advisors who have
served at the highest levels of business, finance, government, and
the military.
As a triple-bottom-line business RIDGE-LANE LP creates global
social value by bridging the gap between private companies,
investment capital, and government – across the Federal, State, and
Local levels. We are an innovation ecosystem, providing
corporate development services to commercialize and scale novel
venture-backed technology companies, as well as place-based
solutions that accelerate urban development and smart cities.
Our team serves as a long-term strategic partner, providing an
integrated offering of Advisory, Capital, and Development services
– aligning the commercial interests of private business, government
regulation and policy, with the needs of society and our future
civilization. We have an unwavering fiduciary approach to
serving the needs of our clients, with aligned incentives around
specific deliverables, where our knowledge and networks are
leveraged to create maximum value for all stakeholders.
Innovators tackling grand societal
challenges: Contact.Us@Ridge-Lane.com
For more information visit: www.RIDGE-LANE.com
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