Bryan Finney

A native of Seattle, WA, Bryan Finney entered the voting technology world during the Bush/Gore election in 2000. Bryan received his MBA in Technology Marketing and has nearly two decades of experience in the elections and voting technology space. Bryan was nominated and selected as a founding member of the Homeland Security-sponsored Elections Sector Executive Committee. He also Chairs the Elections Sector Emergency Response Group. Bryan has been a speaker at the United Nations, presented to Congress, and is a national leader in secure and accessible voting technologies. Starting off as a young staffer in Washington DC and then leading one of the fastest-growing Internet companies during the 1990′s, Bryan saw the problems that occurred during the 2000 Gore V Bush election as an opportunity to modernize voting in the U.S. After a decade working in the voting technology space, Bryan merged his political, business and technology background to start Democracy Live in 2007. Through a series of strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon and in collaboration with the University of Washington Center for Technologies and Disabilities, Democracy Live has grown into one of the largest providers of cloud and tablet-based voting technologies in the U.S. Bryan likes to say, “Why not fix the big problems, like improving how 200 million people vote in the U.S.”