J.C. Herz

JC Herz is the COO of Ion Channel and has served on federal investigative and advisory boards for more than a decade. She is co-chair of the NTIA (Department of Commerce) software transparency standards and formats working group. She has served as a special White House consultant for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as an advisor to DARPA’s Office of Defense Science. JC was a co-author of the Pentagon’s Open Technology Development roadmap spearheaded by Sue Payton, then the Air Force’s chief procurement officer.

JC participated in the Standing Committee of Technological Knowledge (TIGER) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a council of future trends for the intelligence community, the Federal Advisory Committee of Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation and the IT committee and creative practice.