Chief Strategy Officer, Arcadia | Chair, Arcadia Institute
Aneesh Chopra is Chief Strategy Officer at Arcadia, a healthcare data platform, and Chair of the Arcadia Institute, an independent research and policy hub combining open and large-scale real-world healthcare data to generate evidence-based insights on performance and policy. He joined Arcadia following its 2024 acquisition of CareJourney, the healthcare data-analytics company he co-founded and led as President a decade earlier.
Chopra served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2009–2012) under President Obama, where he advanced the nation’s innovation agenda by promoting open data, open standards, interoperability, and public-private collaboration. He previously served as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine, and was later named to the Biden presidential transition’s Agency Review Team supporting the U.S. Postal Service. In 2014, he authored Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government.
Chopra serves on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee and on the boards of Trimedx, IntegraConnect, Upstream Care, the Health Care Cost Institute, the Virginia Center for Health Innovation, and the International Digital Accountability Council. He also chairs the George Mason Innovation Advisory Council. He holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.
