New York’s tech industry has an outsized impact on New York City. With more than 200,000 tech jobs across the five boroughs, NYC’s tech workforce represents 41% of the city’s net job growth since 2019. The city is also the second-largest and second-most valuable tech hub in the world, and a leading global hub for AI.

While Tech:NYC works to ensure that New York remains the best place to build and grow a tech company, we also are committed to ensuring that the tech sector serves New York and everyday New Yorkers. The Grid Fellowship is the latest in this effort – Tech:NYC’s inaugural civic fellowship, designed to prepare the next generation of tech leaders, committed to using their strengths to build a better New York. Through a nine-month immersive experience, the program will expose senior leaders — founders, operators, and C-suite executives — to the systems and civic actors that power the five boroughs.

The goal of the Grid Fellowship is simple: To create a pipeline of leaders who understand the operations of the world’s greatest city and equip them with the networks and knowledge to build a better New York.

Meet the Grid Fellows 2025-26

For more information, email us at gridfellowship@technyc.org


Nabil Ahmad
Chief Technology Officer, Dotdash Meredith

Elana Berkowitz
Founding Partner, Springbank Collective

Lori Bernstein
Vice President, Product Management, Priceline

Nadia Boujarwah
Co-Founder & CEO, Dia&Co

Kristen Clifford
Principal, 01 Advisors

Connie Cyran
Head of Merchandising, Zola

Chad Dobbs
Senior Strategy Lead, Uber

Emily Fontaine
Global Head of Venture Capital, IBM

Brandon Gell
Head of Studio & Consulting, Every

Matt Harrigan
Co-Founder & CEO, Company Ventures

Matt Hartman
Founder & Managing Partner, Factorial Capital

Edward Iskandar
Managing Director, Accenture

Youssef Kalad
Principal, AlleyCorp

Rebecca Kaden
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

Matt Lieber
Founder, Heap’s Ice Cream / Co-Founder, Gimlet Media

Galina Ozgur
Partner, H/L Ventures

Courtenay O’Connor
General Counsel, Squarespace

Anshu Sinha
Chief Data Science Officer, Hangar Capital

Lee Hudson Teslik
Founder & CEO, Reverence

Jarrid Tingle
Managing Partner, Harlem Capital

Stanley Toussaint
Head of Community Partnerships, MoCaFi

Matt Weinberg
Partner, Max Ventures

Lauren Yildirim
VP, Operations, Justworks