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Ijeoma Genevieve Mbamalu is the inaugural Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, where she is responsible for defining strategies that allow the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ to operate its data systems, improve fundraising, accrue more supporters, and get its message out into the world. This includes developing new products and product lines along with maturing existing products and systems. In her role as CTO, Ijeoma develops thought leadership perspectives on values-based design and deployment of algorithmic systems and speaks on topics related to how technology at the intersection of civil rights and civil liberties, can be a force multiplier for social justice in a digital age. Ijeoma is also responsible for conducting cutting-edge social science research and audits to advance legal actions, understand public opinion, empower advocates with information, and optimize the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s fundraising and communications operations.

Prior to the Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, Ijeoma was the inaugural Chief Technology and Data Officer for Bottom Line, a multi-city non-profit that partners with degree aspiring students to get them into college, graduate, and go far in life. At Bottom Line, Ijeoma led a team of data scientists and information technologists to deliver various transformative strategies for the multi-city organization. Some examples of efforts she led in that role include, building a modern data warehouse in the cloud that was used to seed and accelerate predictive analytics and reporting in near real time, developing the organization’s first information security program to advance Bottom Line’s strategic priority for a healthy cybersecurity hygiene, and creating a design system that would later be used to develop standard user interfaces for how analytics are consumed by the organization.

Before her work with Bottom Line, Ijeoma was the lead technologist in various senior leadership positions at multiple governmental agencies in the City of New York. In those roles, Ijeoma led full stack engineering, UI/UX, data engineering and data science teams to deliver on a variety of mobile and web products, as well as custom business intelligence tools, and analytics, for various mission critical agencies.

Ijeoma is a Board Director at The Knowledge House, an education­-to-­employment pipeline incubator for underserved individuals in the Bronx, Newark, Atlanta, Los Angeles. Ijeoma is an immigrant and a first-generation college graduate, passionate about using her platform to support and mentor individuals from African and Latin communities interested in technology. She lives in Manhattan with her son and partner.