Sep 12, 2019
In Season 2, Episode 4 of Beyond the Blue Badge, podcast host Becky Monk caught up with Steve VanRoekel at his Portland, Oregon home. Steve spent 15 years at Microsoft — several of those years working directly for Bill Gates — before leaving to work in the public sector. There he helped overhaul the FCC, was named one of the nation’s most influential people in cloud computing, served as chief information officer of the United States under President Barack Obama, and used big data to help solve the Ebola Crisis. Today, he’s the chief operating officer of one of the nation’s oldest and largest private foundations, the Rockefeller Foundation.