Bobby Jefferson is a Vice President and Senior Advisor at DAI. He was previously Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DAI Global Health, helping establish DAI’s successful digital and global health teams.
In 2020, he joined the Board of Directors of the Society for International Development-Washington, D.C. Chapter, a position to which he was re-elected in 2021. As a member of SID-Washington’s Executive Committee, Bobby has been instrumental in shaping the organization’s strategic thinking on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: chairing the Committee, establishing the Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Workgroup, and setting in motion the DEI Strategic Plan.
Before joining DAI in 2016, he served as Vice President and Director of the Center for Development Informatics at Palladium (formerly Futures Group), where he built a practice focused on ICT for global health and adjacent sectors, leading a staff of 120 in 10 countries.
He serves as a board member and advisor for enterprises including THINKMD, ClickMedix, DataElevates, Covelocity.Health, SimPrints, the Mentor Capital Network, and the gBeta MedTech Black Founders Accelerator program, where he mentors Black entrepreneurs and their startups.
- B.S., computer science, American University
- At-Large Member, Board of Directors, SID, United States
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