Leonardo Quattrucci is a visiting fellow with GMF Technology. He teaches management of new technologies at Sciences Po in Paris, and advises governments and startups on strategy, geopolitics, and technology.

Quattrucci’s career spans the public sector and the technology industry. He was a member of the European Political Strategy Center, the in-house think tank advising the European Commission president. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), he was head of technical programs at the Center for Quantum Networking, where he started a first-of-its-kind Harvard-Amazon partnership on quantum technologies. He also established the UN’s global account at AWS and the joint AWS-UN response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He joined Amazon to launch the Amazon Web Services Institute, an executive education program that assists governments with digital transformation, in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Quattrucci has advised the European Commission on AI adoption and Ephos, a chip maker backed by the EU Chips Act, on scaling strategy. His work has been recognized by Forbes Magazine, the BMW Foundation, Schmidt Futures, the World Economic Forum, and the Aspen Institute. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Oxford.  

Dr. Cvic Innocent is a visiting senior fellow with GMF Technology. She is the founder and general partner of Frankenbuild Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in frontier dual-use sustainable industrials. She sits on various boards, including those for the MA Green Energy Consumer Alliance, Vencapital, and Rooted Futures Lab. She also holds a seat on the Member Advisory Council of the New England Venture Capital Association.

Prior to founding Frankenbuild Ventures, Innocent’s career in finance included investing as an aerospace/aeronautics angel, being a venture partner in a firm focused on the secondaries market, and serving as the investment chair of fintech/finserv.

Innocent contributed to global policy and technical advisory work at the UN, COP30, and the World Economic Forum’s 2026 annual meeting in Davos. Earlier in her career, she worked for NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center and Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and held scientific leadership roles in private- and public-sector research facilities, including as research faculty at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

Innocent was educated at Oxford University, Cornell University, City College of New York, and Kingsborough Community College. She has been named 2025 Startup Supporter/Investor of the Year by ACT. She was a 2025 Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council rising star honoree, a 2022 SPIE Woman of Optics, and a 2019 Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative innovation fellow.

Monika T. Dlugosch is a Munich-based visiting NextGen research fellow with GMF Technology Program. Her research explores the governance of quantum technologies and seeks to understand their implications for state sovereignty, with a focus on mapping and mitigating critical supply chain dependencies. 

During a Blue Book traineeship in the European Commission’s DG CNECT.C2 unit for quantum technologies, Dlugosch contributed to policy work aimed at strengthening the resilience of Europe’s quantum technology supply chains. Prior to that, she was a program assistant with the Munich Security Conference and GMF. 

Dlugosch is completing her master’s degree in politics and technology at the Technical University of Munich. She holds a bachelor’s degree in North American studies.

Dr. Phil Budden is a visiting senior fellow with GMF Technology and a senior lecturer in MIT’s Sloan School of Management Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy Group, where he focuses on tech innovation, multi-stakeholder ecosystems, and the impact of geopolitics.

Budden served as a British diplomat for two decades until 2013. He focused first on Britain's EU membership and key economic, financial, and technology policies, in part at the British embassy in Vienna, before being posted to Washington, DC and, after that, to Boston as consul general. In his decade as a diplomat in the United States, his focus was on transatlantic relations, including economic and business issues, technology security, international science and innovation links, and trade policy.

Dr. David A. Bray is a GMF Technology visiting distinguished fellow. He is also Loomis Council chair of the accelerator, a Stimson Center distinguished fellow, and principal and CEO at LeadDoAdapt Ventures. He is a transformation leader for “under the radar” ventures pioneering breakthroughs in AI, space, bio, quantum science, drones, and robots. He also is a distinguished fellow with the Future of Government Institute. 

Bray previously directed the bipartisan Congressional Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the US Intelligence Community, served as senior executive and CIO of the Federal Communications Commission, and was a senior expert with the US Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Special Operations on countering disruptive gray-zone conflicts. He was also faculty chair for disruption, impact, and governance with Singularity University. He has been honored with the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award and the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. Business Insider named him one of 24 Americans Who Are Changing the World.

Bray has testified before Congress as an expert witness on AI and has led the bipartisan Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data. He also directed the People-Centered Internet coalition and was a senior fellow with the Institute for Human-Machine Cognition. Early in his career, he worked with space efforts tied to ballistic missile defense and served as informatics strategist and chief for the Center for Disease Control's Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program's technology response to outbreaks and emergencies.

Bray was a 2018 Marshall Memorial fellow and a 2015 Eisenhower fellow. He has been given the Distinguished Alumni Award by Emory University’s Graduate School. The nonpartisan National Academy of Public Administration subsequently named him one of 250 Public Service Champions for the US Semiquincentennial. The Marconi Society recently announced that he will be the inaugural recipient of their Excellence in AI award for global leadership.