Summary
Chip Kennedy is a founder and product-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience building mission-driven digital products for government, non-profit, healthcare, and civic clients. As CEO of CivicReach.AI and former VP of Product & Engineering at a tech-enabled healthcare startup, he blends hands-on architecture and engineering with product strategy, AI-first design, and early-stage team building. He’s shipped 0-to-1 platforms—membership marketplaces, healthcare ordering systems, and travel marketplaces—while guiding go-to-market and onboarding the first cohorts of paying users. A habitual builder and community organizer (Co-organizer of Triangle Tech Night), Chip pairs pragmatic technical stacks with workshop facilitation and fractional CTO/CPO work to help mission-driven teams scale. Notably, his experience spans both deep engineering (React, Node, Ruby, cloud infra) and people-first product growth, making him effective at turning civic and healthcare problems into usable, revenue-generating platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Thayer Academy
English, Chinese