Kurt Rao serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at TEGNA and is charged with working across TEGNA to drive the development and implementation of the company's next-generation client and customer technology solutions in the areas of content, advertising, data and insights and media distribution.

Previously, Rao was chief information and technology officer for Time Inc., where he led the transformation and growth of the media publishing organization into a digital content platform company. In addition, he optimized technology operations across the organization and built platforms to support content across video and digital while enhancing consumer data analytics.