Summary
Greg Godbout is a seasoned technology and innovation executive with 13 years of senior leadership experience building AI-driven products and modern digital services across government, energy, and emergency response sectors. He has led transformative growth—scaling Fearless from $25M to $100M annually—and founded 18F inside GSA, where he rapidly built a 125-person digital services team and pioneered agile acquisition approaches still used across government. Now serving as Chief Innovation Officer at Global Clean Energy and CEO of AI for Natural Disasters and Flamelit, he combines strategic M&A, product-led AI development, and geospatial/multimodal ML to drive resilience and sustainability outcomes. A former EPA CTO and Presidential Innovation Fellow, Greg blends public-sector systems thinking with startup velocity, and holds advanced degrees in IT management and Business Analytics & AI. Based in Rehoboth Beach, he also brings an operator’s mindset from running award-winning entertainment venues, an unusual cross-sector perspective that informs pragmatic, people-centered innovation.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Economics & Business, BS Economics & Business at St. Mary's College of Maryland
Masters in Business Analytics and AI, Masters in Business Analytics and AI at NYU Stern School of Business
Master's Degree Management of IT, Master's Degree Management of IT at University of Virginia