Sage Weil

Sage Weil is a technologist and entrepreneur focused on voting rights and strengthening democratic institutions. He is the founder and CEO of Civic Media, a new media company that operates a statewide network of 20 radio stations across Wisconsin. Under his leadership, Civic Media is dedicated to countering misinformation and addressing news deserts in rural communities by delivering quality local news, sports, music, and conversations that matter by acquiring and modernizing local radio stations to reach a broad audience through both traditional broadcast and digital channels.

In a previous life, Sage focused on building free and open-source systems and communities. He was the co-creator and former project lead for Ceph, an open-source distributed storage system based on his PhD research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He co-founded Inktank in 2012 to productize Ceph for the enterprise and sold the company to Red Hat in 2014, where he worked in the Office of the CTO to shape Red Hat's overall storage technology strategy.