Executive Management

Tim Hwang is the Chairman, CEO, & Co-founder of FiscalNote, a global technology and media company focused on delivering timely and relevant policy information in a complex and evolving world. FiscalNote’s core technology sustains products and services that power more than 4,000 clients -- from small nonprofits to government agencies to large corporations (including half of the Fortune 100) -- with software tools, AI-driven insights, comprehensive domestic and international data sets, as well human-authored news and analysis. The largest tech employer headquartered in Washington, DC, FiscalNote also maintains offices in New York City, Baton Rouge, Belgium, India, and Korea.

In his time at FiscalNote, Tim has raised more than $230 million in venture capital and acquisition financing from the likes of The Economist, S&P Global, Mark Cuban, Jerry Yang, Steve Case, NEA, and others.

Prior to founding FiscalNote, Tim began his career in politics on the Obama ’08 campaign. He was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Education a year later, overseeing a budget of over $4 Billion for 22,000 public employees. As a high school student, Tim also served as the President of the National Youth Association and the founder of Operation Fly. Inc., - a national 501(c)(3) organization that served inner-city children in underprivileged areas around the country.

A graduate of Princeton University, Tim was profiled in Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. 30 Under 30, Washingtonian’s Tech Titans, Goldman Sachs 2020 Builders and Innovators, CNN’s Top 10 Startups, and Business Insider’s Top 25 Hottest Startups. He is currently a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a trustee on the Board of the Greater Washington Community Foundation (the largest funder of non-profit and philanthropic initiatives in the DC region), a Board member of The After School Alliance, and a member of the Council of Korean Americans (CKA).

Gerald guides strategic and corporate culture initiatives. He co-founded FiscalNote after a decade leading operations in the non-profit, public schools, and start-up sectors. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer, Global Head of ESG, and a member of the board of directors, overseeing international expansion and leading FiscalNote’s corporate responsibility program. Previously, Gerald was director of finance for the National Youth Association.

He studied finance and sociology at Emory University.

Jon is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer at FiscalNote, with three decades of experience as an investor, operating executive, and board member at high-growth, business intelligence, data, and SaaS workflow companies. He is responsible for investor relations, internal and external financial reporting, executing the company’s M&A strategy, oversight of accounting compliance, and managing capital allocation and growth.

Prior to joining FiscalNote, Jon was the Managing Director of UCG, a private holding company of 10 leading business-to-business information, data, and workflow SaaS companies serving the energy, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, technology, advertising, and tax preparation markets. At UCG, he managed mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity financings, strategic and business planning, budgeting, operations, and governance – completing and integrating over 30 strategic acquisitions for the portfolio.

Earlier in his career, Jon was a Co-founder and Managing Director of MCG Capital, a senior debt, mezzanine, and uni-tranche investment company - backed by Goldman Sachs, Heller Financial, Vestar Capital Partners, and Soros Private Equity Partners - which became a publicly-traded Business Development Company (BDC) during Jon’s tenure. Jon originated and managed investments in information, software, and media companies while at MCG.

Jon holds a BA from Denison University and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Administration.

Josh is FiscalNote’s President & Chief Operating Officer with more than twenty-five years of experience as an executive, attorney, and business leader in both startup and established corporate environments

As President & COO, he is responsible for managing corporate operations, including the Commercial, Business Development, Marketing, Content, and People functions, as well as providing coordinated oversight over FiscalNote’s diversified lines of business and ensuring optimal allocation of resources to drive efficient revenue growth.

Josh also has served as FiscalNote’s General Counsel, in addition to leading the full-suite of global content solutions as Chief Content Officer. As General Counsel, he has successfully navigated and managed the company’s complex legal and regulatory processes, as well as its robust and accelerated M&A and financing initiatives, and built a high-performing Legal department. In his role as Chief Content Officer, Josh serves as Publisher of CQ Roll Call, oversees FiscalNote’s EU-based policy analysis, and has managed the company’s expansion further into political and economic intelligence with its recent acquisitions of Oxford Analytica and FrontierView.

Prior to joining FiscalNote, Josh was a senior executive and member of the Board of Directors of Spree Commerce, serving as COO/General Counsel and helping lead the company to a successful acquisition by First Data Corporation (now Fiserv). Prior to Spree Commerce, he led the Digital division of Gannett, and was a senior in-house attorney at AOL. Earlier in his career, he spent several years in private law practice representing clients in the TMT sector in corporate transactions and regulatory matters.

Josh has been twice named to Washingtonian Magazine's "Tech Titans" list, in 2019 and 2021, has advised numerous tech startups as well as a venture capital firm investing in the tech and media ecosystem, and has served on multiple Boards of Directors. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was named an Edward F. Hennessey Distinguished Scholar and G. Joseph Tauro Scholar, as well as earning the Dean’s Award in Communications Law.

Richard Henderson is a highly experienced and successful Chief Revenue Officer who has spent the past 25 years leading and transforming global sales, marketing, and customer success teams specializing in B2B software, data, and information services businesses. 

Richard has extensive international operating experience across North America, South America, EMEA, and APAC, and he has held senior executive leadership roles in both public and private companies - including Higher Logic, Stats Perform, and the Corporate Executive Board (formerly NYSE-listed, and now owned by Gartner, NYSE: IT).

At the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), a global best-practice insights and software firm, Richard held a series of executive leadership roles, including oversight for the Americas and EMEA, as the business grew from $30 million to $900 million in annual revenues and transitioned from private to public ownership. He successfully launched more than 15 new products and led the commercial integration of multiple acquisitions. 

More recently, as the Chief Revenue Officer at Stats Perform and Higher Logic, Richard built deep expertise in transforming go-to-market models to drive efficient and scalable growth. His roles incorporated leadership of large-scale change initiatives covering sales, marketing, customer experience, product, and partnerships in addition to acquisition integrations and international expansion across EMEA and APAC. 

He is an Honors graduate of Cambridge University, UK.

Todd is a strategic and collaborative attorney who brings to the company over 10 years’ experience advising public and private company clients. As our Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, he oversees FiscalNote’s legal affairs, including corporate governance, securities compliance, employment law and compensation matters, litigation, financings and other strategic transactions. He also oversees the company’s compliance function, including ethics, data privacy and the development and implementation of corporate policies.

Before joining FiscalNote, Todd was Associate General Counsel – Corporate and Securities and Assistant Secretary for FLIR Systems, Inc., a publicly-traded international sensor technology company. Prior to joining FLIR, Todd served as Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at Gannett Co., Inc., a publicly-traded media and marketing solutions company, through its acquisition in 2019. Before then, Todd was a senior associate in the SEC Advisory and Capital Markets practice groups at Hogan Lovells US LLP.

Todd holds a JD, magna cum laude, and an LLM in Securities and Financial Regulation, with distinction, from the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as a BA in Political Theory and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.

Sara Buda is the Vice President of Investor Relations for FiscalNote. She brings more than 20 years of investor relations, communications, and corporate development experience with a background in establishing proactive, best-in-class investor relations programs. Buda serves as FiscalNote’s primary contact for investors, analysts, and shareholders. Her main responsibilities include: analyst and investor communications and engagement; educating and informing the global investor community about the company’s financial performance, growth prospects, and M&A strategies; management of our quarterly corporate earnings process; increasing investor and analyst interest in the company as a long-term investment opportunity; investor conference participation; ongoing analysis of investor and market sentiment and stock performance; and, international investor engagement.

Prior to joining FiscalNote, Sara was Vice President Investor Relations for Berkshire Grey (Nasdaq: BGRY), an emerging leader in AI-enabled robotic solutions. Previously, Sara was Vice President of Investor Relations for Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP), the largest publicly-traded developer and owner of Class A office properties in the United States. Sara’s experience also includes serving as Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development for Lionbridge Technologies, a publicly-traded technology services company, where she grew the company’s shareholder base, established the company’s corporate development function, and played a key role in the ultimate sale of the company to H.I.G. Capital.

Sara holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University.

Paul is FiscalNote’s Chief Accounting Officer and leads the Accounting and Finance team responsible for all internal and external financial reporting. He brings to the company nearly 20 years’ experience in providing capital markets accounting advice to clients throughout the public company lifecycle. That experience includes guiding companies through the technical accounting and financial reporting requirements related to mergers and acquisitions, private debt offerings, recapitalizations, application of new GAAP pronouncements, and SEC reporting.

Before joining FiscalNote, Paul was a Managing Director at Riveron, an accounting advisory firm, where he led the mid-Atlantic capital markets practice. Prior to Riveron, Paul was a Director in the Deals practice of PwC where he provided large private equity clients, portfolio companies, and corporations with M&A and capital markets accounting advice.

Paul holds a BS in Accounting from Greenville University and is a licensed CPA in IL and VA.

Vlad currently leads the AI Research team at FiscalNote, focusing on using machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to create practical applications for analyzing, modeling, and extracting knowledge from the growing amount of mostly unstructured data related to government, policy and law. He created the first version of the company's patented technology to help organizations understand and act on policy changes. He has more than a decade of experience developing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for a broad range of NLP applications including entity extraction, structured prediction, machine translation, text classification, and information retrieval.

His work has led to 10 patent applications, he has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in and serves on the program committees for top-tier conferences, such as ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP, and has been covered by media such as Wired, Vice News, and Washington Post. His research awards include the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and he has conducted research in academia (Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland), industry (Raytheon, BBN Technologies, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory), and government.

Vlad completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science with Philip Resnik at the University of Maryland, and his B.S. in Computer Science and Philosophy at Columbia University.

With more than 25 years of career experience spanning the corporate, government, journalism, and agency sectors, Nicholas leads the full suite of mission-driven corporate communications programs for FiscalNote - including all media relations, executive & internal communications, brand reputation, and influencer engagement programs – and also manages the company’s public affairs presence in the marketplace.

Prior to FiscalNote, Nicholas was Founder of Hidden Creek Communications, a public relations consultancy with a global clientele of Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and advocacy organizations including Gannett, Accenture, Consolidated Edison, USA Today, and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. He was also Executive Editor of The Loudoun Times-Mirror, where he earned eight awards for his journalism from the Virginia Press Association. In the corporate domain, Nicholas was Vice President of Communications and Spokesperson for America Online (AOL), and also held the same position at IAC/InterActiveCorp’s flagship Ask.com unit at transformational times for both brands.

A strong believer in public service, Nicholas was Press Secretary for the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors, where he received the Award for Outstanding Achievement from the U.S. Secretary of Defense. During his time in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate on Capitol Hill, Nicholas served as Press Secretary for U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe (Maine), John H. Chafee (Rhode Island), and the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. He was also senior policy advisor for the successful 1996 election campaign of U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins (Maine). He began his career working for an international PR agency in Washington, D.C., and a financial communications firm in London, UK.

Nicholas earned a BA in Political Science and Western Europe Studies from The American University’s School of International Service. He lives in Hillsboro, Va., with his wife and four sons - and loves to head up to his rustic log cabin on the Kennebec River in Maine any chance he gets.

Krystal oversees marketing, thought leadership, and community at FiscalNote to help customers and prospects better turn insights into action. She brings more than 20 years of diversified marketing, branding, and business development experience across both enterprise organizations and startups. Krystal also serves as the general manager for FiscalNote's Community business, leading the vision and strategic direction of Board.org and the FiscalNote Executive Institute (FNEI).

Before joining FiscalNote, Krystal ran demand generation at EAB. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Marketing at Localist in Silver Spring, Md., ran marketing for PBS' education division, and has had a variety of roles in previous marketing departments at Discovery Communications, TrustArc, BearingPoint, and CEB.

She holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a BS from Tulane University.

When not scaling growth at FiscalNote, Krystal enjoys running, traveling anywhere, eating chocolate chip cookies, daily crossword puzzles and sudokus, and spending time with her three small kids. Fun fact about Krystal: she is an identical twin and has a set of twins.

Mike is FiscalNote’s Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Operations, responsible for managing FiscalNote’s administrative, facility, information technology, and security operations. Since joining the company in 2013, he has shepherded FiscalNote’s growth from an employee headcount in the single digits and a small office in Maryland to roughly 800 full-time staff and a corporate footprint consisting of 135,000+ square feet across the United States, Australia, Belgium, India, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Mike has served in multiple capacities at FiscalNote – most recently as Chief of Staff and Head of Corporate Communications – as well as Head of both the People and Client Support & Implementation departments. He drove multiple original initiatives such as recruiting and hiring, training and education, performance management, and organizational development. In 2016, Mike was selected to represent the District of Columbia's tech, creative, and business community as an Ambassador to South by Southwest Interactive. He has worked closely with the District of Columbia’s Mayor's Office as a representative of FiscalNote on multiple initiatives, and was responsible for its negotiations to keep FiscalNote’s headquarters in the district in 2017. He oversaw the planning and execution of FiscalNote’s successful communications strategy surrounding its historic $180 million acquisition of CQ Roll Call in 2018, as well as other critical funding, acquisition, and corporate news events. In 2021, Mike played a critical role in the planning and preparation for FiscalNote’s public markets entrance, as well as the communications and integration planning of its numerous acquisitions that year.

Mike came to FiscalNote with a background in independent school education, both as an administrator and teacher, having taught history, government, and math. He holds an MS in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a BSBA in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Richmond.