Originally published on May 17, 2017 on Sacramento Business Journal by Victor A. Patton
Louis Stewart has spent much of the last seven years looking at how technology economies have been developed in communities statewide. Now he hopes to apply some of those lessons in Sacramento.
Stewart, 46, started his new position on Monday as chief innovation officer for Mayor Darrell Steinberg‘s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
He was previously deputy director of innovation and entrepreneurship with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), where he oversaw the state’s Innovation Hub (iHub) Program. The program connects 15 state-designated centers of innovation (called iHubs) with the goal of stimulating partnerships, economic development and job creation around specific research clusters.
A 1989 John F. Kennedy High School graduate who played professional basketball in Belgium and Peru after college, Stewart has worked with multiple technology sectors, from agtech in the Central Valley, to cleantech in Southern California and fashion technology in the Bay Area.
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