Long before she became known as “not a typical CTO,” Reshma’s career was shaped by one of the most defining operational moments of our time: 9/11 at Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC) supporting Business Continuity Planning during and after the attacks. Over the next three decades, she built and scaled global technology worldwide, architecting enterprise systems and AI-driven platforms long before AI became a buzzword. As the first CTO of Tricon Residential, she led technology for 60,000+ homes, scaled global teams, drove revenue from $400M to $1.7B, and delivered $30B+ in IPO, M&A, and take-private value creation — including the NYSE IPO, Blackstone privatization, and the $6B HPA. Across every sector — she saw the same pattern: organizations drowning in data but starving for clarity. Even sophisticated firms with EDWs, BI tools, and data scientists relied on analysts stitching together various data sources or Excel sheets because the real intelligence — the meaning, the context — lived in people’s heads, not their systems. CivicMind was created to change that. It's the intelligence layer she wished she had during 9/11, complex enterprise integrations, IPOs and M&As, and operational crises — a platform that unifies messy internal data with external signals and transforms it into contextual intelligence teams can actually act on and automate.
Reshma Block is the Founder and CEO of CivicMind Data AI— a business-first, AI-forward operator with more than 30+ years of experience leading complex technology, operations, and transformation across real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, private equity, and civic organizations.
