Grid Fellowship

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 aicenturys 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 a core part of that effort: aicenturys’ civic fellowship, designed to prepare this 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.

Grid Fellowship

2026–27

Jacob Doctoroff

Vice President, Head of Product, Metropolis

Hannah Elsakr

Global Vice President, GenAI New Business Ventures, Adobe

Eyal Feder

CEO and Co-Founder, Zencity

Natalie Fratto

Founder & Creator, Charts & Crafts

Tess Guttières

VP of Brand, Marketing, and Networks, Primary Venture Partners

Richard Hughes

Operating Partner, Gutter Capital

Jody Kelman

Executive Technology Advisor, Yoto

Cobus Kok

Vice President, AI Experiences, Priceline

Will McKelvey

Principal, Lerer Hippeau

Cat Middleton

General Partner and Founding Team Member, The Venture Collective (TVC)

Wes Mizell

Associate Director, MetaProp

Boris Moyston

Founder, Relentless Venture Partners

Caitlin O’Neill

Senior Communications Executive, IBM

Oscar Pedroso

Founder and CEO, Thimble.io

Maria Luisa Pineda

CEO & Co-Founder, Envisagenics

Maryanne Reinhardt

Managing Director of Public Service, Accenture

Mario Ruiz

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Infinity Capital

Ben Schippers

Co-Founder, TezLab/Focus.AI

Brad Schneider

Founder and CEO, Nomad Data

Aman Shah

AI & Venture Lead, VNS Health

David Snider

Founder & CEO, Harness

Nithya Sowrirajan

Chief Product Officer, Via

Vinay Sridhar

Product Lead, Reddit

Vinay Trivedi

Partner, General Atlantic

Joseph Weiler

Managing Director of Investments, H/L Ventures and CityRock Ventures

Jolie Yang

Head of Product Legal, Uniswap Labs

2025–26

Nabil Ahmad

Chief Technology Officer, People Inc.

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