An idea to leverage technology to help clients develop a strategy for engaging with the Federal government, shaping its research and technological agenda and creating compelling messaging for advocacy to advance client interests positioned the Honorable Kelly H. Carnes as the trailblazer to follow.
Kelly is known for her entrepreneurial drive and is a nationally recognized technology policy expert. She is a thought leader who has spent three decades serving the high-tech industry in various fields.
Today, as the President and CEO of TechVision21, Kelly has led the company to become an innovation strategy powerhouse with a passion for advancing clients’ leading-edge innovations.
Unveil Kelly’s passionate leadership that continues helping companies partner with the Federal government. This allows TechVision21 to focus on business development and growing the company.
Up Until Now
When Kelly earned her law degree, she started working as an attorney at a national law firm to negotiate and structure technology business deals. This included joint ventures, strategic alliances, venture capital transactions, licensing and marketing agreements, and arrangements for systems integration projects.
Then Kelly was recruited to work in the White House as an aide to First Lady Hilary Clinton in 1992. Kelly states that the Clinton Administration was implementing a groundbreaking national technology agenda, which she wanted to support. She transferred to the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she led some of the Administration’s key technology initiatives. For example, Kelly served as a senior policy advisor to four Secretaries of Commerce. The President nominated, and the Senate confirmed Kelly to be the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy. In that role, Kelly was a liaison to, and advocate for, the technology business community and led Presidential and Cabinet-level technology initiatives.
During Kelly’s tenure as Assistant Secretary, she learned that most organizations—whether start-ups or global giants—were not leveraging Federal Government policies, programs, and funding as well they could be to advance their business and competitive goals. Hence, after leaving the government, Kelly founded TechVision21 to help companies, universities and science and technology non-profit organizations take advantage of Federal government support for research and technology development and deployment in an economy driven by technology and innovation.
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