David Ihrie

David Ihrie is the chief technology officer (CTO) with the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corp. (VIPC).  Ihrie has more than 40 years industry experience as a direct innovator in the fields of satellite and terrestrial communication, computing, and information science. He has been a principal in seven startup companies in industries ranging from Nuclear Power to Digital Broadcast to analytic software for the Intelligence Community.

Ihrie has used the CTO position as a platform to help build four breakthrough enterprise-scale innovation organizations. The National Technology Alliance brought non-traditional technology companies to help solve hard problems for the Intelligence Community. MACH37 is the first vertically-focused business accelerator for cybersecurity. Ihrie leads a program with Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate to bring leading edge innovation to the First Responder community, and has partnered with Smart City Works to create the world’s first infrastructure focused business actuator. 

Currently he leads Smart Communities initiatives for Virginia and is helping bring this new generation of capability to all Virginians. Ihrie has a Master of Science degree in Business from MIT, specializing in the Management of Technological Innovation, and a B.S. from MIT in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science.