Ryan Panchadsaram

Why you should listen

At the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, Ryan Panchadsaram serves as technical advisor to John Doerr, where he invests in founders and technologies that aim to change the world. He and Doerr coauthored Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now and collaborated on the number one bestseller Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs. Under President Obama, Panchadsaram was Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, where he championed entrepreneurship, innovation and open data.