Jake Garcia

Jake is responsible for RANE's flagship Core Intelligence product, new product and platform development, and data science. Prior to RANE, Jake spent 13 years at Candid, where he oversaw Candid's data, tech, design, product management, sales, and marketing operations. Jake managed all of Candid's core products, which collectively attracted millions of users per year around the world and were responsible for most of Candid's earned revenue. The Products division also included data discovery, machine learning, user experience research, and prototyping. Jakes’s career spans a few seemingly unrelated disciplines: geography, programming, and music. From 1998 to 2008, he was a professional, touring musician. As a geographer and programmer, he worked on projects for NASA, Al Gore's Climate Project, the City of New York, Citigroup, and the U.S. Army from 2006 to 2010. He joinedFoundation Center in 2010. Jake received B.A. in politicals cience from Brown University and an M.A. in geography from Hunter College.