Bryan Sivak is an active civil servant with interest in open data.
In July 2012, he became the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services CTO after serving as CTO for the state of Maryland from October 2009 to July 2012.
Prior to his time with Governor O’Malley, Bryan served as Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, where he created a technology infrastructure that enhanced communication between the District’s residents and their government, and implemented organizational reforms that improved efficiency, program controls, and customer service. Bryan previously worked in the private sector, co-founding InQuira, Inc., a multi-national software company, in 2002, and Electric Knowledge LLC, which provided one of the world’s first Natural Language Search engines available on the web in 1998.