Robert Vogel is a co-founder and the CEO of Peak Democracy, Inc. -- a trailblazing provider of online civic engagement services that increase public trust in government. Prior to the launch of Peak Democracy, he was executive director of a nonprofit organization that was awarded a grant from Berkeley California, to facilitate online civic engagement. After more than 5,000 residents attended those Berkeley online forums, Robert pursued Peak Democracy to scale-up those online civic engagement services nationwide. Now that the company has worked with over 60 government agencies to power over 1,100 online forums that have attracted over 130,000 online attendees, Robert has become a nationally recognized expert in the best practices of how online civic engagement can be used to increase public trust in government. He has two graduate degrees: one in mathematics from the University of Chicago, the other in physics from UC Berkeley.