Co-Founder
Maureen has 14 years of federal experience in four different agencies, beginning as a Presidential Management Fellow and ending as a member of the Senior Executive Service.
Most recently, she served as Deputy COO for USDA Rural Development, where she oversaw IT, HR, and a 470-office real property portfolio; identified $27 million in cost savings; and overhauled the agency’s IT governance process.
Previously, she served as the Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s nearly $2 billion RESTORE grant programs, where she reduced the average time to grant award from 233 to 75 days, oversaw the development and launch of a new Salesforce-based grants management system in just four months, and established rigorous standardized outcome metrics for the program.
Earlier in her career, she led the development of the data collection and reporting system for the brand-new U.S. Department of the Treasury’s $1.5 billion State Small Business Credit Initiative, which spurred $8 in private investment for every $1 of public investment and supported 190,000 jobs; drafted the first interagency federal funding opportunity (FFO); and served in the U.S. intelligence community.
Maureen received a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.B.A. and Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Co-Founder
April has been leading digital work in both the private and public sectors for 20 years. She uses her unique combination of public policy education/experience and hands-on technical skills to show government and mission-driven organizations how to deliver services that actually work for people.
As a federal executive at the IRS, she built and led the agency’s first ever user experience (UX) office in 2023, and helped drive some of the most consequential digital modernization efforts in recent years. A key highlight of that work was the creation of a fully government-owned and operated behavioral data generation, collection, analysis, and reporting platform set up to measure meaningful product outcomes as well as provide predictive analytics insights to inform technology roadmaps.
Prior to joining government, April was a product owner in an e-commerce company, a product manager at a boutique application development agency, co-founder of a healthcare startup, and technology executive at an advocacy and government-focused communications agency.
April holds a political science degree from Yale University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University.
Congressional Expert
Max Spitzer is an expert on congressional procedure, rules, and organization. He spent over 18 years on Capitol Hill as a member of the Parliamentarian's Office at the House of Representatives. As an Assistant Parliamentarian, he advised presiding officers of the House on floor procedure, assisted committee chairs and staff with the conduct of legislative markups and oversight hearings, and worked closely with the Committee on Rules on all aspects of the legislative process.
During the latter part of his career, he served as Managing Editor of the Parliamentarian's publications office, leading the effort to compile and publish the parliamentary precedents of the House. He spearheaded the development of an internal database to record and organize parliamentary data for research purposes. He edited the most recent three editions of House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents, and Procedure of the House - the official rules manual used by House Members, committees, and staff. He has authored 10 different chapters of the new precedents series, cataloguing the procedural rulings of presiding officers and documenting the history, traditions, and customs of the House.
He is currently an independent contractor, consulting with non-profit organizations on congressional reform and federal governance issues.
He holds J.D. and L.L.M degrees from the Duke University School of Law, an M.A. in history from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in history and philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member in good standing of the District of Columbia Bar.
The gap erodes trust and polarizes the nation.
We’ve run 250 years of tests. Now let’s design the next phase.
Real progress outlives any one leader.
Give doers room to run, and they will.
Effective government isn’t big or small; it’s functional.
Not a technical one.
So let’s solve the hardest stuff now.
