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Innovators in Public Sector Administrative Operations
60% of Authorium's team has previously worked in government. We're committed to shaping a future of agile, compliant, and intelligent business operations by enabling digital transformation in the public sector.
Jay Nath is Co-CEO & Founder of Authorium. Jay created Start-ups in Residence (STIR) in 2013 while serving as the first Chief Innovation Officer of San Francisco, where he worked for over a decade. In that role, he was named an Obama White House Champion of Change, established the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, and created the pioneering Civic Bridge program, which brings pro bono talent from Google, McKinsey, Harvard Business School, and many other organizations to solve critical challenges, and created the Mayor’s Executive Fellowship as part of the Obama Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Before public service, Jay was VP of Product at SquareTrade, where he led the strategy for their flagship product, leading to their acquisition by Allstate for $1.4B. Before joining SquareTrade, he was a senior consultant at PwC, implementing healthcare software for Fortune 100 companies.
Kamran Saddique is Co-CEO & Founder of Authorium. Kamran founded Authorium in 2014 to help governments solve problems through collaboration with the private sector. Kamran has been a serial entrepreneur on three continents for more than 15 years. Previously, he worked in the financial engineering sector, focusing on new technology ventures, including smart city initiatives. He served as head of investments to a company owned by one of the royal family members in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before that, he was the VP of Private Equity for Convergence Capital in the Dubai International Financial Center. He was responsible for closing transactions in real estate, aviation, mining, water desalination, carbon credits, health, education, and media. He started his career with Sun Microsystems and holds a Computer Science B.Sc. (Hons) and a Masters of Science in International Finance at Aston Business School.
Chris Rieth is Authorium’s Head of Revenue where he works closely with our customers to identify the common administrative challenges they face and works collaboratively to identify innovative solutions to improving their daily workflows. Chris previously served in state government for 6 years at the State of Maryland as Director of the Governor’s Office with a portfolio spanning statewide innovation programs, performance management, and data initiatives. He spent the next decade continuing that service at the intersection of innovative SaaS software solutions and government innovation; from evangelizing and supporting data-driven government performance programs globally at a SaaS software startup to bringing data analytics programs to medium-sized cities with the Bloomberg Philanthropies / Johns Hopkins University Center for Government Excellence.
Chris is an IT security leader with over 18 years of experience in governance, risk, and compliance. Chris' expertise lies in developing and managing security and data privacy programs, leading incident response efforts and managing security risks, conducting and overseeing internal and external audits (SOC2, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, ISO, PCI), and implementing and managing security awareness and training programs. Chris is passionate about building and leading high-performing security teams and ensuring the security and compliance of information systems.
As a transformational leader, Irine thrives on inspiring and empowering her team through open communication and collaboration. Irine's relationship-based selling approach and passion for growth foster an environment of intellectual inspiration and high performance. With over a decade of experience in the SaaS industry, including the past six years in B2G sales, Irine specializes in navigating complex sales cycles for mid-to-large market clients, including federal and state contractors. Her passion for aligning solutions to mission-critical needs, building trust with technical and executive stakeholders, and delivering consistent results has been honed through work in regulated industries requiring precision and compliance-driven decision-making.
Omeed Manocheri is the Director of Solutions at Authorium, where he leads the Solutions Architecture and Engineering teams with a philosophy grounded in people and process first, using technology as a tool to enable both. His journey with Authorium began in 2015, when it was still the nonprofit City Innovate Foundation, where he served as Marketing Manager and helped establish its civic innovation mission. Beyond Authorium, Omeed ran his own multimedia and marketing business for a decade, partnering with social impact organizations to tell stories and build strategies that drove change. Highlights of his projects include Maker City, a social impact agency that partnered with public, private, and civic institutions to advance innovation and economic transformation, and the SF Urban Film Fest, a storytelling and civic dialogue platform recognized by the California Legislature for its work in inspiring civic engagement through film.
With a background in technology, media production, and communications, Omeed brings a creative problem-solving mindset and storytelling approach to building more effective and equitable public institutions.
Marlon Paulo is the VP of California Business Development. With 20 years of experience in government operations, Marlon was formerly the Director of Procurement for Santa Clara County and the Chief Technology Procurement Officer for the State of California. During his tenure at the State, he modernized procurement and improved project delivery. Marlon’s innovative thinking led to a reduced acquisition time, resulting in numerous successful procurements of critical technology in 3 - 4 months. Leveraging a challenge-based approach to procurement, Marlon led the acquisition of several coronavirus-related solutions. The blueprint for his successes in addressing the technology challenges of the pandemic is now being used for large, complex information technology projects across the State of California.
Josh is passionate about helping communities build resilience and about helping companies build great products and cultures. Before Authorium, he spent 15 years building companies working on hard public sector problems. At Authorium, Josh develops partnerships with companies with complementary technology, markets, and strategic initiatives.
Before Authorium, he served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at UrbanFootprint., and was Co-Founder and CEO at Department of Better Technology (acquired by CityBase) and Chief Product Officer at CityBase (acquired by GTYH). Before shifting to startups, Josh worked extensively in the public and private sector at Google, the World Bank, and USAID.
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