Treasurer
Bobby Jefferson is President of Data Elevates. From 2016 to 2025, he was on the senior management team at DAI, where he served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the global health division.
Since 2020, Jefferson has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for International Development’s Washington, D.C. chapter, where he has helped to shape the organization’s strategic thinking on various issues, including technology innovation. He has held similar advisory roles for the Council of International Development Companies
Before DAI, Jefferson served as Vice President and Director of the Center for Development Informatics at Palladium (formerly Futures Group), where he built a practice focused on information and communication technology for global health and adjacent sectors, leading a staff of 120 in 10 countries.
He serves as a board advisor at American University and a Board member for THINKMD, ClickMedix, DataElevates, Covelocity, and the Mentor Capital Network.
Jefferson earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science at American University.