Nagesh Rao

Nagesh Rao, a new EnChroma board member, has worked in the public, private, and NGO sectors for over 20 years. He is a highly regarded CivicTech leader, having co-led the creation of programmatic efforts such as i6 Green, Patents for Humanity, Growth Accelerator Fund Competition, and USAID’s-SBAR Program.

Nagesh previously oversaw key digital products and services such as SBA.gov, SBIR.gov, Certify 2.0, Lender Match, and served on the US Small Business Administration's COVID-19 Leadership response team leading the technical direction of PPP and EIDL efforts as part of the historic CARES Act implementation.

Nagesh has curated IP-Portfolios and growth strategies for a number of organizations and currently serves as a Technical and Venture Advisor to Ruvna and MAS Holdings. He is a 2004 Mirzayan Fellow of The National Academies and a 2016 USA Eisenhower Fellow. He earned a BSc from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a MSc from Albany Law School-Union University, and his MBA from the University of Maryland-College Park.