Josh Becker

Summary

CA Senator representing the 13 Senate District -Chair, Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications -Member, California Broadband Council -Climate, economic opportunity and social justice -Member of the Committees on Human Services, and Insurance, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, and Select Committee on Economic Development and Innovation. -40 substantial bills on clean energy, climate, technology and privacy, justice reform and housing signed by the Governor. Former Public Interest Entrepreneur. Clean energy pioneer and investor. Passionate about Rule of Law (LMI &LN pioneering Legal Analytics to bring transparency to the law). Founder, The Full Circle Fund. California Workforce Development Board. Early Childhood Education leader - CCPC/EqualStart. Educator in our Community Colleges. Supporting innovative cures for cancer. Josh is the founder of The Full Circle Fund, a community leadership and policy innovation organization that funds and supports non-profits creating positive change in the Bay Area and builds civic leaders for the future. FCF members have provided over 100,000 strategic volunteering hours to Bay Area non-profit orgs and raised $15M+ to do public problem solving in the Bay Area. Josh was the CEO of Lex Machina, the company that pioneered the category of Legal Analytics. Lex Machina started as a public interest project at Stanford Law School to bring openness and transparency to the law. It became a company end of 2010 and Josh took over mid-2011 to build a business around the data while offering free access to judges and academics. He was CEO until August of 2018. In Washington, D.C., Josh started a successful technology consulting firm, was one of the youngest Press Secretaries on Capitol Hill, and started his career in environmental consulting. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from the Stanford Law School. At Stanford he co-founded the Board Fellows Program, to match students with the boards of non-profit orgs and became a national model. He also ran a year-long initiative on technology and social change. Previous employment includes Redpoint Ventures, Netscape Communications, and McKinsey & Co. Josh was on the founding team of Dice.com, the IT Jobs site.