“We see these wonderful apps that really have changed our world in many good ways such as Uber or Airbnb, but at the same time, they're drastically changing the workforce. And they're changing them so much that the industries themselves are not able to keep up.”

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.