Todd Park

Todd Park is an American entrepreneur and government official. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Devoted Health.

Park was born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah to South Korean immigrant parents. He graduated from the Columbus Academy in 1990. In that year he was named a Presidential Scholar. He attended Harvard as an economics major where he met his future wife, Amy, with whom he has two children. He graduated magna cum laude and a Phi Beta Kappa.

Park co-founded athenahealth with Jonathan S. Bush in 1997 at the age of 24. In 2008 he co-founded Castlight Health, named by the Wall Street Journal as the #1 venture-backed company in America for 2011.

Park also served as a volunteer senior advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture called Healthpoint Services, which brings affordable clean water, drugs, diagnostics, and telehealth services to rural villages in India. In 2011, Healthpoint Services won the Sankalp Award for the "most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.

In 2017, Park founded Devoted Health, where he serves as co-founder and executive chairman.

In 2009, he was approached by Bill Corr to be the Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services. At HHS, he was a leader in bringing the notion of "big data" to healthcare. He expressed his ambition to create an open health data platform analogous to the National Weather Service, which feeds data to commercial weather sites and applications. He also described his desire to create a "holy cow machine for healthcare" that shows waste.

He was an advocate for applying open innovation and the Lean Startup approach to government initiatives. Under Park, HHS applied open innovation—sometimes called crowdsourcing—to leverage the distributed intelligence of people outside of government. According to the New York Times, Park believes that releasing health data through HealthData.gov will support the agency's public health goals and catalyze new business opportunities in mhealth and eHealth. In 2010, Fast Company magazine named him one of the 100 Most Innovative People in Business.

Park ran his team inside of the massive government agency "like a Silicon Valley company," according to the Atlantic. That approach was particularly relevant in the development of HealthCare.gov, the first government website that provides consumers with a searchable database of public and private health insurance plans available across the U.S. by zip code.