Our Founders.
Randall Weidberg
Randall is a Product Management and Digital Transformation executive whose mission is to transform the nation's highest impact platforms, tools, and digital services through human-centered design and technology.
The results of his efforts led to large scale commercial sector product launches, digital transformation within the Federal Government, and two of his companies' acquisitions.
Randall served as Product Management Lead and Digital Service Expert at the White House's U.S. Digital Service (USDS), where he led teams for two critical high-profile national priorities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). Randall also has leadership experience managing digital service teams within the Department of Defense (DoD). He led the strategy and delivery of technology teams for work with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to strengthen national defense.
Previously, Randall served as Director of Product Management at Groupon and LivingSocial (acquired by Groupon), where he led the company’s next generation of mobile-first consumer and merchant products in support of 25M+ users and 100k+ local businesses. As a commercial sector entrepreneur, he received industry awards and media recognition from The New York Times, The Wall St Journal, Wired, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and more for building innovative customer-centric technology startups.
Randall Specializes in Product Management, Digital Transformation, and leading and building remote and distributed teams. Randall currently resides in Boulder, CO.
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Advisory Board
Dr. Joy Bhosai, MD, MPH
Joy served as Chief of Digital Health and Strategy at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the nation’s largest academic research organization for clinical trials. She also is the associate director of Innovations in Healthcare, a group founded by McKinsey & Company and the World Economic Forum. Joy holds a medical degree from UCSF, a master’s in public health from Yale, is a former Fulbright Scholar (U.S. Department of Education), and Fogarty fellow (National Institute of Health). The U.S. Department of State selected her as a Global Entrepreneur delegate in 2018.
Affiliation: Duke University Sector: Health Tech Specialty: Patient Care, Digital Transformation, Product Management.
Robbie Holmes
Robbie brings 25+ years of technical leadership experience across civic-tech and the commercial sector. Robbie served as the Director of Digital Services and Software Engineering for Prince William County, Virginia, helping lead digital modernization and driving the adoption of a human-centered approach to delivery. Previously Robbie held technical and leadership positions at Sony Music, Pluribus Digital, Johnson & Johnson, and Google. Robbie also served as a Digital Service Expert at the United States Digital Service, a tech startup inside the White House.
Company: Holmes Consulting Sector: Technology Specialty: Engineering, Product Management, Human Centered Delivery, Agile Procurement.
Joel Nilsen
Joel is an interaction designer at Google where he applies user-centered and accessible design principles to emerging cloud technology. Prior to Google, Joel worked as a senior designer with the U.S. Digital Service, guiding the modernization of design and research practices at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Joel has almost 10 years of federal experience, spanning multiple agencies and diverse user segments. During his federal service, he notably designed a daily briefing app, enabling the delivery of digital content to President Obama.
Company: Google Sector: Technology Specialty: Interaction Design, Product Design, User Research.
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Alex Henry
Alex is a design manager at Airbnb, an online marketplace for vacation rentals based in San Francisco. Before Airbnb, Alex co-founded an award-winning design firm and two technology startups, one of which graduated from the selective TechStars accelerator program in Denver, Colorado. Previously Alex advised fortune 500 technology companies and served as a design consultant for McKinsey & Company, Tesla, and Silicon Valley Software Group (SVSG), where he specialized in helping companies deliver transformational digital outcomes.
Company: Airbnb Sector: Technology Specialty: Human-Centered Design, Product Design, Front-End Development.
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“We are excited to leverage our foundational relationships in academia, government, and the commercial sector, along with our people-first business building experience to help Gray untangle and redesign mission-critical government services.”
— Dr. Joy Bhosai, MD, MPH - Gray Digital Advisor