Harper Reed (born March 21, 1978) is an American entrepreneur and former Head of Commerce at Braintree, a subsidiary of PayPal.
In 2011, he served as Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.Besides his claims of technical accomplishments, Reed is known for his punk-rock hair-style.
He has subtitled himself as "pretty awesome" and "pretty much one of the coolest guys ever".According to The Guardian, Reed's "background in crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing ...
gives a significant clue to what the Obama team hoped to achieve in 2012".