Justin Fanelli
Chief Technology Officer, US Dept of Navy
Justin Fanelli is the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of the Navy and Technical Director of PEO Digital, driving measurable technology improvements and secure, high-performance digital transformation. He champions private-public collaboration to deliver innovation with unprecedented value. Fanelli advises numerous national science and technology boards and has held key roles including Chief Architect for Defense Health, DARPA Service Chiefs Fellow, and Chief Systems Engineer for Joint Command and Control. He teaches at Georgetown and has lectured all over the country at CMU, MIT, Stanford and others. He recently gave a TED Talk on innovation adoption and the Innovation Adoption Kit covered by TechCrunch, Forbes, CSIS and others. Fanelli holds engineering degrees from Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania and is a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He’s been an angel investor, VC and has been privileged to serve on public and private boards. His work has earned national awards including the Etter Award, Fed100, Defense50, and CMMI Project of the Year. He lives in Arlington, VA and enjoys book recommendations.
