Marina Nitze

Marina Nitze, co-author of Crisis Engineering and Hack Your Bureaucracy, is currently a partner at Layer Aleph, a crisis engineering firm that specializes in restoring complex business systems to service. Marina was most recently the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama, after serving as a Senior Advisor on technology in the Obama White House and as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education. She serves on the board of Renaissance Philanthropy and advisory boards of the Center for Civic Futures, Foster America, Foster Insights, Recoding America, and Think of Us. Marina created TaskTackler, the personal productivity app for people who love lists, and lives in Seattle, Washington.