Executive Director

Gaurab Bansal leads Responsible Innovation Labs (RIL). RIL accelerates tech startups solving human problems at enduring scale. RIL pursues its mission as a non-profit network, providing cost-effective coaching, tools, and advocacy purpose-built for startups and their founders.

Gaurab works to make complex systems and organizations produce better outcomes for people and communities. Gaurab served as a senior administration official in the Obama White House. He advised tech startups and venture funds as a lawyer. Gaurab has partnered with family offices, philanthropies, and civil society to strengthen social cohesion, economic inclusion, and American democracy. He previously worked as a public school teacher committed to excellence for all his students regardless of background.

Across tech, government, politics, and philanthropy, Gaurab is dedicated to helping people achieve their biggest ambitions through coaching, strategy, and execution.

Gaurab earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the University of Washington School of Law. He lives in Seattle, WA and is originally from Baltimore, MD.