Phaedra Chrousos is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Libra Group, where she is responsible for a broad portfolio of cross-Group initiatives. She joined as Chief Innovation Officer in 2016, where her role was to identify, pilot and help Libra Group subsidiaries adopt disruptive technology solutions. 

Phaedra is driven by a fundamental belief that technological and scientific innovation can solve some of the generational-defining challenges of the 21st century. Phaedra’s beliefs are grounded in her years of experience as a 2x venture-backed technology founder and in her role as a political appointee for the Obama Administration. In that role, she led and scaled several of the President’s digital initiatives, co-founded the Technology Transformation Service, and established the federal government’s $1B Technology Modernization Fund.

Passionate about paying it forward, Phaedra is an active board member. In addition to serving as Chairwoman of the Board for Seleni, she also sits on the board of Vanda Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded, global biotech company, and on the board of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University. 

Phaedra began her career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and The World Bank. She received a BA from Georgetown University, an MSc with distinction from The London School of Economics, and an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.