Renato Mascardo is Accela’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) responsible for overseeing the company’s engineering, cloud, and IT operations. Renato brings more than 20 years of experience leading technology organizations and has extensive experience taking enterprise, consumer and government products to market, including widely used cloud platforms, commerce and mobile products. Prior to joining the team at Accela, he served as CTO at Recurly, a SaaS FinTech market leader in subscription billing management, where he was responsible for all technical aspects of the business and contributed to significant growth of the organization, sales, total payment volume and platform foundation. He has had proven success leading technology teams for iconic Silicon Valley technology companies including Rosetta Stone, Atari, Digital Globe, Hewlett-Packard, Mercury Interactive and Borland Software. He built a keen interest in the government market at his first job at Lockheed Martin IMS in Tarrytown, NY building GIS products for local municipalities. Renato holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Richmond.
Government can no longer afford to pursue monolithic, exquisite technology solutions. Given rising citizen expectations and the fast-changing technology landscape, state and local governments need to work closely with key stakeholders, including both citizens and IT vendors. This vision – call it “Connected Government” – will drive IT modernization. It’s a relationship-based approach to technology that will help state and local governments meet the immediate challenges of remote work and virtual citizen service, while also helping government IT leaders keep pace with innovation. Given the potential power of a Connected Government approach to IT services, it’s worth taking a deeper dive into how this mode of operation works.
