Joint Venture Profiles

Each month, Joint Venture profiles a member of the board or other project leader from the Silicon Valley landscape, featured here and in Valley Vision, Joint Venture's monthly newsletter. Please enjoy meeting the people behind the headlines and learning more about them.

Meet Christina Briggs

Deputy City Manager and Economic Development Director, City of Fremont

In a pre-COVID world, a writer would have traveled across town to interview an executive like Christina Briggs, deputy city manager and economic development director for the City of Fremont. There would be a degree of formality and layers of staff to pass muster with before getting to Briggs.

Instead, all protocols and formalities fall to the wayside as I am greeted over a Zoom call by Briggs herself, who is at once warm and engaging and as focused as a laser beam... Read more

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