REMOVER OF OBSTACLES
Jeremy Goldberg
Innovation Partnerships, City of San Francisco
Jeremy M. Goldberg is director of Civic Innovation Partnerships in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, where he leads Startup in Residence, a 16-week program that partners government departments with startups to develop products and services in San Francisco and three partner cities. He also leads Civic Bridge, which recruits private-sector teams to volunteer their time to work on critical public-sector issues with city staff and departments. Previously he was deputy chief of staff for civic innovation in the San Jose, Calif., mayor’s office.
Goldberg has worked as a nonprofit executive, strategic consultant and public-private partnership adviser on projects in the United States and internationally. In 2003, he founded the Global Youth Partnership for Africa, which supported community development through sports and microfinance projects in post-conflict regions of East Africa. He earned a B.A. in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of San Francisco.
