Who We Are
Betsy Masiello
Founder
Betsy Masiello is a tech policy strategist with experience in a wide range of industries, including tech, media and telecoms, public health and urban transportation. As an early member of Google’s global policy team, Betsy led the company’s efforts on privacy from 2008-2015. She led a team of subject matter experts on economic policy, privacy, and child safety.
Able to go deep as a subject matter expert, Betsy is a talented strategist whose breadth of experience covers a wide range of industries and policy areas. She built and led Uber’s global policy and economics team, which was responsible for establishing Uber’s position on labor policy, environmental and urban mobility policy, and safety policy. In her most recent in-house role, Betsy was VP of Public Policy at Juul Labs, where she built a global policy function and developed a global policy framework to eliminate the use of combustible cigarettes. Betsy has worked with startups in hard-tech as VP of Marketing at Rigetti Quantum Computing, in gov-tech as VP of Policy at Remix, and as a co-founder of prop-tech company, Catapult.
Betsy began her career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she advised telecom companies on business strategies for emerging technologies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Wellesley College, a master’s degree in economics from Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a master’s degree from MIT’s technology & policy program.
Founder
Derek Slater
Derek Slater is a tech policy strategist focused on media, communications, and information policy. Previously, he helped build Google’s public policy team from 2007-2022, serving as the Global Director of Information Policy during the last three years. He led a global team of subject matter experts on access to information, content regulation, and online safety, and testified before legislators in the US, UK, and elsewhere around the globe.
Along with deep strategy and subject matter expertise, Derek is a skilled campaigner and coalition builder. For instance, he worked with start-ups, venture capitalists, and civil society to organize campaigns around online copyright in the US and Europe, including the successful defeat of the overreaching Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012. Similarly, as Head of Policy Strategy & Campaigns for Google Fiber, he mobilized organizations at national and local levels to pass broadband legislation in Nashville and San Francisco, which later became the basis for federal action. For this and other work, the Coalition for Local Internet Choice gave him its Private Sector Champion award in 2016.
Before his time at Google, Derek was the Activism Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the first student fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard College.
