Todd Park Mohr (born October 19, 1965) is the singer and guitarist for the American rock band Big Head Todd & the Monsters, as well as being their namesake and primary lyricist. A founding member of the band, he also occasionally provides keyboards and saxophone.
Park Mohr was born in Colorado and is of Korean and German descent. He attended Columbine High School, then Colorado State University in Fort Collins and later transferred to University of Colorado Boulder along with the other members of the band, which achieved some mainstream success in the early to mid-1990s.
Park Mohr formed Big Head Todd & the Monsters with friends from high school, while touring the night scene in Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder. Influenced by jazz music from an early age, he has incorporated several elements of it into his music, developing his own unique sound. He primarily plays old Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters, although he has recently also been playing K-Line guitars. He is known for his raw, powerful solos and use of sweep picking.
Todd Park is a technology advisor based in Silicon Valley for the Obama Administration. He was formerly the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States, replacing the United States' first CTO Aneesh Chopra. On September 4, 2014, it was announced that Megan Smith would replace Park.
Park was born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah to South Korean immigrant parents. He graduated from the Columbus Academy in 1990. In that year he was named a Presidential Scholar. He attended Harvard as an economics major where he met his future wife and mother of his two children, Amy. He graduated magna cum laude and a Phi Beta Kappa.
Park co-founded athenahealth with Jonathan S. Bush in 1997 at the age of 24. In 2008 he co-founded Castlight Health, named by the Wall Street Journal as the #1 venture-backed company in America for 2011.
Park also served as a volunteer senior advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture called Healthpoint Services, which brings affordable clean water, drugs, diagnostics, and telehealth services to rural villages in India. In 2011, Healthpoint Services won the Sankalp Award for the “most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.