Chad Evans is the executive vice president of the Council on Competitiveness, overseeing all programs and initiatives. Evans develops and manages the Council’s policy agenda and workstream, including: development and execution of the Council’s flagship “National Commission on Innovation & Competitiveness Frontiers,” creating both the “Building University-Industry-Lab Dialogue for Advanced Computing” effort and the “Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative” with the National Science Foundation, forming the “American Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness Partnership” with the US Department of Energy, and helping to shape and launch the “National Engineering Forum.”