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Carl DeMaio has dedicated his career to public service. He is founder of The Performance Institute, a non-partisan, private think tank dedicated to reforming government through the principles of performance, transparency, competition and accountability. Carl is recognized as a national leader in government reform and taxpayer protection initiatives. Elected and career officials from both political parties routinely seek advice on how to hold government programs accountable for delivering tangible results to the taxpayer.
Since founding The Performance Institute in 2000, Carl has built the organization into the largest government reform think tank in the nation and the leading authority on performance-based management in government, law enforcement, non-profits and schools. More than 10,000 individuals attend the Institute’s education programs annually, with the Institute’s research and position papers driving policies at the federal, state and local levels of government. Prior to forming the Institute, Carl spent five years on Capitol Hill working on strategic planning, budget reform, and government oversight initiatives with members of Congress.
An entrepreneur and businessman, Carl also founded the Institute’s spin-off, the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI), which focuses on improving corporate transparency, accountability and performance. ASMI is pioneering a multitude of ideas for improving corporate governance — a key concern arising from corporate scandals in recent years.
Putting Ideas into Action – Leading Change
Carl has served as an advisor to numerous elected leaders, including President George W. Bush and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the federal level, he is well known for his “Transition to Governance” report in 2000 that produced many of the ideas in the President’s Management Agenda. At the state and local levels, he is the architect behind two “Citizens’ Budget” plans — one in 2003 focusing on the State of California’s budget crisis and one in 2004 focusing on reforming the City of San Diego. Both projects combined a thorough audit of government spending and performance and resulted in a mix of short-term and long-term reforms of the way government operates. The Citizens’ Budget approach has received significant media and public attention for engaging citizens in a meaningful way in reforming their government. The Orange County Register editorialized that the Citizens’ Budget would “lay the foundation for finding a sensible and lasting way out of the current crisis” and “the result would be a more efficient government and more business-friendly state.”
Carl is a frequent speaker at conferences and events across the country and his work and commentary have appeared and been referenced on network television and in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Orange County Register, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He resides in San Diego, California.