Lisa Gelobter

Her father was a Polish Jew, and her mother was Afro-Caribbean. She graduated from Brown University in 1991 at the age of 20 with a computer science degree with a concentration in artificial intelligence and machine learning.[3]

Gelobter has an expansive background in strategy development, business operations, user-centered design, product management, and engineering.[4]

She served as Chief Digital Service Officer for the United States Department of Education during the Presidency of Barack Obama.[5][6][7][8] In the position, she helped to improve HealthCare.gov, reducing the number of individual pages and overall application time.[9] She led the team that built the United States Department of Education College Scorecard, which helped college students make sensible choices about college investments.[10][11][12] She is on the advisory board of Bridge Foundry.[13]

Prior to public service, Gelobter was the Chief Digital Officer for BET Networks and was a member of the senior management team for the launch of Hulu. She also worked on Shockwave, a multimedia platform used for video games.[14] She was instrumental in the creation of Shockwave and oversaw the product release cycle for Shockwave, coded ActiveX control for the player, coordinated the engineering transition among many other things.[15]

In 2016, Gelobter founded tEquitable, an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination and harassment in the workplace.[16][17][18][19][20] She raised more than $2 million for the platform.[7]

She is also a former member of the New York Urban League STEM Advisory Board. [21] and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People.[22]