Todd Park
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| 2nd United States Chief Technology Officer | |
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In office March 1, 2012 – August 28, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Aneesh Chopra |
| Succeeded by | Megan Smith |
| 1st Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services | |
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In office 2009–2012 |
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| Succeeded by | Bryan Sivak |
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| Born | 1973 (age 43–44) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Amy |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Todd Park is a Korean American entrepreneur and government executive. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama.
Park was born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah to South Korean immigrant parents. He graduated from the Columbus Academy in 1990. In that year he was named a Presidential Scholar. He attended Harvard as an economics major where he met his future wife and mother of his two children, Amy. He graduated magna cum laude and a Phi Beta Kappa.
Park co-founded athenahealth with Jonathan S. Bush in 1997 at the age of 24. In 2008 he co-founded Castlight Health, named by the Wall Street Journal as the #1 venture-backed company in America for 2011.
Park also served as a volunteer senior advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture called Healthpoint Services, which brings affordable clean water, drugs, diagnostics, and telehealth services to rural villages in India. In 2011, Healthpoint Services won the Sankalp Award for the “most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.
In 2009, he was approached by Bill Corr to be the Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services. At HHS, he was a leader in bringing the notion of "big data" to healthcare. He expressed his ambition to create an open health data platform analogous to the National Weather Service, which feeds data to commercial weather sites and applications. He also described his desire to create a "holy cow machine for healthcare" that shows waste.
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