Harper Reed

2012 American Presidential Campaign Reed served as Chief Technology Officer for Obama for America from April 2011 through the November 2012 election. Modest was funded primarily by Eric Schmidt. In August 2015, Braintree purchased Modest and relaunched the Modest platform as PayPal Commerce. at Cornell College. He is a board member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Reed is also on the advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute and the Illinois Tech Computer Science Department. Reed was also a consultant and advisory to House of Cards for a number of episodes. Harper also sits on the advisory boards for IIT Computer Science and the Royal United Service Institute, and is a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab.

Writing Reed has written on a number of topics, including user experience design,