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Jarren Reid
Jarren Reid is the 21-year-old CEO and co-founder of Usul, a Y Combinator (S24) startup building an AI platform that helps companies find, pursue, and win government contracts. Usul monitors roughly $8 trillion in annual government spending across 60+ nations, matching companies to opportunities in defense, IT, energy, and healthcare. Reid worked for defense contractors including Palantir and MITRE while still young, dropped out of Stanford to build Usul after seeing how broken the acquisition process was, and has become one of the youngest CEOs working with the U.S. government today.
Christian Hugo
Christian Hugo is the CEO of GovData Services Limited, a Warrington-based consultancy he has led since 2006 that helps British businesses - especially SMEs - access the £378 billion annual UK government procurement market. With over 30 years in the public sector space, Hugo played a role in the creation of G-Cloud, the UK's largest IT procurement framework, and has helped clients win over £40 billion in public sector contracts. A co-founder of Govnet Communications in 1997, he has built GovData into a firm that has guided more than 1,800 businesses through government framework submissions across IT, professional services, people, and buildings and infrastructure.