Innovation Chief Takes Innovative Step of a Private-Sector Job
After a year or so of lucrative somehow-related-to-government work in Rhode Island, the state’s “chief innovation officer” Richard Culatta is venturing out into the (probably even more lucrative) Washington, D.C., non-profit sector:
Richard Culatta, Rhode Island’s chief innovation officer announced to NBC 10 Tuesday night that he is leaving for a new job at an educational non-profit in Washington DC.
Despite telling NBC 10’s Bill Rappleye that the move was “in the works for weeks,” Culatta gave no indication that he would be moving on during an appearance under a week ago with WPRO’s Tara Granahan.
The CEO for the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity (a not-nearly-as-lucrative Rhode Island non-profit), Mike Stenhouse, is cited in the article for his doubts about the funding structure of the innovation office. Readers may recall that The Current led the way last January in pointing out how Democrat Governor Gina Raimondo had a tendency of placing key people a few steps removed from accountability, in this case through a Constitutional loophole.