Duco’s mission is to empower leading companies to operate safely, securely, and responsibly by mobilizing the world’s leading experts to help solve complex challenges. 
Why leading companies trust duco
Global Community of Experts
Duco’s expert team includes international technology and policy experts, former high-ranking government officials, leading security professionals, and other industry executives in over 60 countries.
Leading Technology Clients
The largest and fastest-growing American internet companies hire Duco to tackle emerging and complex challenges, and define and execute local strategies, globally.
An Extension of our Clients’ Teams
Duco provides deep expertise to inform strategic decisions and operational execution across global teams, including policy, intelligence, trust & safety, operations, research, and security teams.
Confidential, Tailored Support
Duco provides expertise on niche topics while maintaining client confidentiality and discretion throughout each engagement by working with a highly vetted set of experts.
Customized Products
Duco works closely with our clients to co-design and deliver highly customized products that speak directly to organizational strategy and nuance.
Impactful, Scalable Solutions
Duco delivers quick-turn, high-quality, scalable, and confidential global expert support that aligns with client business objectives and company norms on everything from strategic planning to policy development to crisis response to in-country or linguistic scalability challenges.
Speed & Unmatched Capabilities
Duco’s online project management platform allows our team to quickly customize deliverable requirements, match the best experts to each project, and efficiently and securely aggregate expert insights for our clients.
Duco's Values
Think like a CEO
Build relationships and trust
Innovate and simplify
Focus on impact
Obsess over clients' problems
Grow
Duco Leadership

Sidney Olinyk

Founder & CEO

Sidney is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Duco. A former Obama Administration political appointee, Sidney's career spans national security, leadership development, and entrepreneurship – from the Pentagon to civil society to Silicon Valley. She has extensive experience in building organizations and products, generating and growing revenue, and developing and leading high-performing teams.

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Katie Harbath

CGA

Katie is the Chief Global Affairs Officer at Duco. A global leader at the intersection of policy, democracy, and technology, Katie’s career spans political campaigns, civil society, and technology. Prior to Duco, Katie spent ten years at Facebook, where she built and led global teams that managed elections and helped government and political figures use the social network to connect with their constituents. She has extensive experience in elections and government engagement around the globe as well as developing product policy on a wide range of issues.

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Neema Basri

COO

Neema is Duco’s Chief Operating Officer, designing and executing client and team strategy and mobilizing rapid, global expert support across emerging marketplace, technology, and security challenges. Prior to Duco, for over a decade Neema served as a consultant at multiple leading firms, including Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte, where he advised teams and a diverse set of executives across functions, sectors, and roles.

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Scott Hoch

CTO

Scott is Duco's Chief Technology Officer and first employee, ensuring that the team is using technology to be as efficent, compliant and transparent as possible. Prior to Duco, Scott has spent 11 years working at startups and running his own tech consulting firms. His main experiences are in automating human processes and using machine learning to support human workflows.

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