Garren Givens

Garren Givens is entrepreneur, investor, and consultant. He is a Vice President with NVIDIA, where he leads Professional Services. Garren served as Executive Director of the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program under President Obama. This entrepreneur-in-residence program brought dozens of top innovators to government from the private sector, and introduced design-thinking and lean methodologies to save taxpayer money, create jobs, and improve critical services. While there, Garren helped create a digital consultancy called 18F, which now has over 200 technologists providing full-stack design and development services to virtually every other federal agency. His policy experience includes both an Executive Order and legislation signed by President Obama. As an entrepreneur, Garren has led multiple efforts both independently and as an EIR. He has contributed articles to VentureBeat and Huffington Post, and his startups have been covered by Entrepreneur, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and many other publications. Garren holds a BA and MBA from Yale University. He lives in Washington DC with his family.