Stefan Leichenauer

Andrew McLaughlin

Chief Operating Officer

Andrew's pioneering career in tech has included a wide range of entrepreneurial, operating, and public service leadership roles, including:  Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under President Obama; Head of Global Public Policy at Google; President and COO at Assembly OSM; partner at betaworks; co-founder and partner at Higher Ground Labs; EVP at Tumblr and Medium; VP and Chief Policy Officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); and CEO of Digg and Instapaper.  

Andrew has deep ties across the extended universe of tech, policy and legal academia. He has held positions as Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity and Internet Governance at Columbia University's
School of International and Public Affairs (2014-2015); Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet & Society (2011-2012); Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University (2011-2012); and Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (1998-2005). He served as the Founding Executive Director of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University (2017-2018).

Andrew serves on the board of directors of Globant (NYSE:GLOB), and the Starknet Foundation. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Andrew got his undergraduate degree in history at Yale University, and his J.D. at Harvard Law School.  Over the course of his childhood, he lived in Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA; Toledo, OH; Wayzata, MN; Fargo, ND; London, UK; and Golden Valley, MN, where he graduated from Neil A. Armstrong Senior High School.