Sustainable Smart Cities and How Natalia Olson Leads Urtecho with Passion

Nata Olson¬Urtecho is a city planner by education, a technologist by life¬long learning, and a visionary strategist in the brave new world of connected, smart cities. Like many extremely successful leaders in technology and business, she started young, working since she was 15, and driven to lead a full and fantastic life, with a loving family, the insights only world¬traveling can provide, and opportunities to make a difference on a big scale.This includes her contributions to US government programs. As an appointee of President Barack Obama, Olson¬Urtecho ran the Small Business Administration’s Mid¬Atlantic region, responsible for small business programs, financial assistance, and business development initiatives, managing 34 billion dollars in government contracting.