Brandon Fagan is the Transformation and Performance Lead in the Office of the CEO at CharterUP, a cloud-based SaaS marketplace revolutionizing charter bus and group transportation across the United States. Based in San Francisco, Fagan joined CharterUP in February 2021 and rapidly ascended from Customer Success Account Manager to Sales Manager - leading the sales team to 440% year-over-year growth and scaling the department from 6 to 49 people in under two years. A UC Berkeley sociology graduate with a 3.95 GPA and honors thesis distinction, he brings an academic rigor to his operational and strategic work at one of transportation tech's fastest-growing companies.
Zeynep Tufekci is a Turkish-born sociologist, professor at Princeton University, and New York Times opinion columnist who has become one of the world's foremost voices on the intersection of technology and society. Known for being consistently ahead of the curve — predicting Facebook's role in ethnic violence, YouTube's radicalization pipeline, and COVID-19's severity before mainstream institutions caught on — she bridges computer science and humanistic inquiry with a rare clarity. Her 2017 book 'Twitter and Tear Gas' is a landmark study of networked protest, and her Substack newsletter 'Insight' offers rigorous, genuinely open-minded analysis of the hardest puzzles at the edge of science, technology, and democracy.