Founder | Digital Product Builder
Iโm a social entrepreneur and digital product builder. Iโm the founder and CEO of CivicReach - a startup and mission to leverage voice AI to make local government radically better at providing for everyone.
My mission is to build great big things that serve the builders, the users, communities, and society. I care about building (and helping others build) tech that brings more equity, access, and dignity.
๐ฌย ๐ย To get involved with CivicReach, drop a line: โ๏ธย chip@civicreach.ai
๐ย ๐ย Interested in the Research Triangle, NC tech community? You should be - follow me on LinkedIn for events/opportunities and check out Triangle Tech Night
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Engagements
CivicReach.AI
๐๏ธย Government Tech
Founder & CEO | AI/ML Architecture, Government Sales, Product Strategy, Founder things.
๐ย Voice AI for Municipal Government
Collective
๐ฑย Social Media
Interim CPO/CTO | Marketplace and Product Strategy, Social Media Product Strategy, User Testing, Software Engineering
The Amalgamation
๐๏ธย Government Tech
Product Advisor | Marketplace and Product Strategy, Product Architecture
๐ย Underutilized Small Business Collective
๐ฐย Triangle Biz Journal: Startup's plan to get more contracts to minorities? Form a collective
Guaranteed Health
๐ฅผย Digital Health
VP of Product and Engineering | Digital Health Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management
๐ย Hybrid End of Life Healthcare
๐งย Podcast: The human side of technology with Chip Kennedy of Guaranteed Health
Parachute Health
๐ฅผย Digital Health
Product Manager | Marketplace and Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management
๐ย ePrescribing Healthcare Platform
๐The Next Chapter: Parachute Health
๐ฐย Built In: 48 Healthcare Technology Startups and Companies on the Forefront of Modern Medicine
Tastemakers Africa
โ๏ธย Travel
CTO | Marketplace Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management, Software Engineering
๐ย Community and Travel Marketplace
๐ฐย TechCrunch: Tastemakers raises $1M to sell Africa experiences to the world
Periodikal
๐ฆย FinTech
Product Advisor + Interim CTO | SaaS Product Strategy, Wireframe Prototyping, Product Architecture, Technical Product Management
NYC Office of Technology and Innovation
๐๏ธย Government Tech
Client Workshop + Engagement | Project Management, Mission + Brand Consulting
Collectively
Founder + Director of Studio | Team Management, Product Architecture, Mission + Brand Consulting, Community Engagement
๐ย Startup Product Studio
GoodWerk
๐ฃย Political Engagement Tech
Client Engagement | Product Architecture, Web Development, Social Community Engagement
Agritecture + AgTech-X
๐ณย Environment Tech
Client Workshop + Engagement | Project Management, Mission + Brand Consulting, Community Engagement
Justice for Kurds
Client Workshop + Engagement | Product Management, Theatre Operations, Mission + Brand Consulting, Community Engagement
๐ย Cross-Cultural Initiative
๐ฐย Theatre Mania: Bernard-Henri Leฬvy to Presentย Looking for Europeย at the Public Theater (Theater Mania)
Media
CivicReach + Present
Resume
โ founder + ceo @ CivicReach โ๏ธ
โ co-host @ Triangle Tech Night ๐
โ volunteer @ Raleigh-Durham Startup Week ๐ก
โ co-director @ Christmas in the City ๐
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โ speaker @ Triangle AI Summit 2024 ๐ค
โ former technology + product consultant for startups ๐ค
โ former advisor @ Collective ๐ฑ
โ former advisor @ The Amalgamation ๐ชง
โ former VP of product and engineering @ Guaranteed Health ๐งโโ๏ธ
โ mentor @ Five One Labs ๐ฎ๐ถ
โ mentor @ Gaza Sky Geeks ๐ต๐ธ
โ former advisor, interim chief technology officer @ Periodikal ๐งฎ
โ former product manager @ Parachute Health ๐ช
โ caregiver to my Dad, ALS patient
โ former chief technology officer @ Tastemakers Africa ๐
โ partner nyc open data week 2018 ๐
โ speaker @ impact summit 2018 ๐ก
โ founder and former director of studio @ Collectively ๐
โ former lead software engineer @ Referrio ๐
โ B.S. computer science @ Case Western Reserve University ๐
โ caregiver to my Uncle, long-term brain tumor survivor
โ former software engineer @ Lean Dog ๐ถ
โ former paper boy @ The Patriot Ledger ๐๏ธ
About Me
I've spent 10+ years as an entrepreneur, product builder, and software engineer with a passion of helping startups grow their platforms, ideas, and communities.
Now, Iโm the founder and CEO of CivicReach - a platform to help local governments deliver radically easier, more equitable, and affordable government communications and services to everyone. We have a hard-working team, kick ass advisors, and a social mission that inspires me every day.
From 2021 - 2023, motivated by pandemic lessons at the personal level and society level, I worked specifically with digital healthcare startups. As the VP of Product and engineering at Guaranteed Health, I lead healthcare product, engineering, and technology strategy and execution. I also worked at Parachute Health where I had the privilege of building and scaling their medical ordering platform for medical facilities, suppliers, manufacturers, and health systems, all to improve patient outcomes.
Pre-pandemic, I was CTO of Tastemakers Africa: a community platform centering Black experiences, Black voices, and Black stories across the world. It was the best startup Iโve had the opportunity to build with (and had the best founder I've had the opportunity to run a company with). We built a travel experiences marketplace at scale, created a global virtual community, and brought on fantastic investors - including Precursor Ventures and Flybridge Capital.
On the come up, I found my way in the startup world by founding and running a startup studio: Collectively. We brought on extraordinarily talented product designers and software engineers to work with startups, venture capitalists, and accelerators. We built digital products for some amazing mission-driven organizations and ran discovery sprints for the NYC Mayor's Office. Iโm most proud that we created a valuable community at the intersection of impact startups and product freelancers.
Outside of technologist-ing, I'm always (trying to be) training for my next marathon ๐, reading about politics ๐บ๐ธ, and learning cooking from youtube ๐.
As a builder: I think the harder the problem, the better.
I care about clarifying + subdividing challenges, using + creating data ethically, and creating products that make us all better.
As a founder: I care about building products that bring communities together, building teams that challenge and inspire each other, and scaling up while holding true to mission.
As a human: I think the internet is a beautiful place, in moderation.
I care about civic engagement, solving systematic societal inequalities, and supporting organizations that work with those who need it most. I'm a critical optimist - never losing appreciation for a challenge, while channeling the innate difficulty into motivation.
Causes I Support
Credits
My avatar is from Naddya Adhiambo Oluoch-Olunya from Nalo Studios (@nalostudios)
Notion Icons from NuttLabs
Photo Credits:
- Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
- Photo by Liam Edwards on Unsplash
- Photo by Eduardo Barrios on Unsplash
- Photo by Barney Yau on Unsplash
- Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash
- Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash
Links
Resource LibraryDigital Product Building for GovernmentDigital Product Building for StartupsThe Library