Biography
Bryan Sivak
Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia Government
 Bryan Sivak was appointed by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on October 13, 2009 to the Cabinet post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia. As CTO, Sivak leads the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), an organization of more than 500 staff that provides technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses and millions of visitors.
Sivak has over 15 years of experience in building software and internet technologies and developing business practices. In 2001, Sivak served as chief architect in the development and design of InQuira's various product modules. In 2002, he founded and developed InQuira, Inc., an international technological solutions company whose products are used at top private and public sector organizations including Bank of America, UK Ministry of Defence, Nokia and T-Mobile. While there, he oversaw every aspect of the business from design and development of the product to sales, marketing and management activities relating to the overall execution of InQuira's business plan and growth of the company. In 2005, he moved to London and opened the European office of the company.
While expanding and building the Inquira, Inc. brand in the European market, Sivak:
- Maintained significant and sustained revenue growth over a nearly four-year period
- Managed regional positive margin contribution in all years of operation
- Expanded pan-EMEA blue chip customers roster including the UK Ministry of Defence, UK Financial Services Authority, Royal Bank of Scotland, T-Mobile UK, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Kyivstar, Avis Europe, Skype and others
- Developed overall business strategy for sales, delivery and support and oversaw the execution of all aspects of the European business
- Built InQuira's overseas infrastructure from the ground up, including design of the IT infrastructure, negotiation of leases on office space in central London and oversight on build-out of InQuira's office space
- Worked with local marketing partners to build InQuira's brand and drive sales leads into the region
Prior to his work with InQira, Sivak founded Electric Knowledge LLC, which provided the world's first Natural Language Search engine available on the web. The company's customers included Bank of America and Fidelity Investments and several others. Electronic Knowledge eventually merged with Answerfriend, when was the basis for the formation of InQuira.
Sivak also served as lead software engineer for the IBM Corp. in its Santa Teresa Lab in San Jose, Calif. There, he worked on embedded SQL for Java Conformance Test Suite, was responsible for designing the test suite, coding tests and delegating tasks to other members of the team, and worked jointly with teams from Oracle, JavaSoft, Tandem, Sybase and Informix.
Sivak holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
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