Biography

Reuven Carlyle is an entrepreneur in the wireless, software and clean energy industries as well as a citizen legislator. 

A passionate advocate for foster children and national and community service,   Reuven served as co-founder of City Year, an AmeriCorps program in King County. He’s a recent member of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges where he focused on the use of technology in education.  

Professionally, Reuven helps early and mid stage firms bring new, leading edge technologies to market worldwide. He provides business development, financing, sales, board development and consulting services to technology companies especially in the wireless, software and clean technology fields. 

Reuven has served on the boards of directors or advisors for AirSage, Inc., Compelling Technologies, Inc., and V2Green, Inc. He also served as chairman of the board of Twisted Pair Solutions, now the nation’s premier provider of radio interoperability and communications software. He was a senior business development executive with Xypoint where he helped build the Seattle-based startup into the largest provider of wireless E911 location services in the nation. Reuven was also a public policy manager with McCaw Cellular Communications and AT&T Wireless Services.  He co-founded an international business development firm to help Israeli-based technology companies enter the U.S. and European markets. In his early career, Reuven served as a communications aide in the Washington State House of Representatives.  He developed an interest in government while serving as a teenage page in Congress for Sens Warren Magnuson and Scoop Jackson.

Reuven grew up in Bellingham, Wash. and has a master in public administration (M.P.A.) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor of arts (BA) in Communications from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Reuven and his wife Wendy Carlyle, M.D., have four children ages 11, 9, 7 and 2 and are active in Seattle public schools along with numerous community groups in the 36th District and Seattle.