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Matt Gardner

Chief Executive,
California Technology Council

Matt previously founded or cofounded industry organizations including the California Cybersecurity Information Sharing Organization, BioCalifornia, California Business Incubation Alliance, the California Technology Council, Bay Area Bioscience Association, and the California Biotechnology PAC. Matt has served as the chief executive of the California Technology Council, Cancer Commons, BayBio and the Maryland Bioscience Alliance. He is an active member of the board in innovation bodies including the Technology Councils of North America, California Cybersecurity Task Force, and the Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations Standards Organization. Matt is currently chair of the National Council of Registered ISAOs. He has served as a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the School of Management.
Matt Gardner is author or co-author of publications on innovation including “California Tool Works,” “Approaching Zero” and “A Future at Risk.”
He was, until recently, chairman of the board of Seeding Labs, a non-profit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts which improves science capacity at institutions in the developing world.
Matt served as a founder and chair of the life science innovation boards for two members of Congress, Rep. Barbara Lee (California, 13th) and Rep. Jackie Speier (California, 14th). He is the co-author of legislation including Maryland’s angel investment credit and California’s tax treatment of net operating losses for innovative companies, and regulations including California’s “L” occupancy code allowing life sciences research to expand vertically above the second floor.

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