“Before I was hired by Obama's team as the CTO for his 2012 re-election campaign, I had certainly never been involved with anything of that nature before. Yet, I somehow knew I could do the job. I attribute that confidence to my experience as a hacker and the subsequent willingness to take risks.”

American entrepreneur and technology executive

Harper Reed is an American entrepreneur and technology executive. He is known for his work at Braintree, where he served as Head of Commerce, and for his role as Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in 2011. His background in crowd-sourcing and cloud computing was seen as pointing to the kind of campaign the Obama team wanted to build in 2012. He is associated with technology leadership at the intersection of business and politics.