Todd Achilles teaches innovation, strategy, antimonopoly, and policy analysis at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He grew up raising sheep on a family farm in Oregon. A former Army tank commander and armor officer, he has spent his civilian career in product and engineering roles within the tech, media and telecom sectors. Todd held executive roles with global scope at T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard, and was co-founder/CEO of a TV broadcast company. Todd is a union member of UC-AFT local 1474, and serves on the leadership team of Veterans for Idaho Voters, a cross-partisan group of military veterans advocating for Idaho's Open Primaries Initiative.

Todd’s policy interests lie at the intersection of business, technology, and underserved markets. He has written about broadband competition and the renewable energy transition. His areas of expertise are in wireless and 5G, media and broadcast, semiconductors and consumer electronics, competition and industrial policy.  He has a forthcoming white paper on how to use the CHIPS Act to reinvigorate competition and innovation in the semiconductor industry.

Todd holds four patents and serves on the boards the Frank Church Institute at Boise State University and the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy. He formerly served on The Atlantic Council and Boise State Public Radio boards. He received his BA from Claremont McKenna College, his MBA and MAIS from the University of Washington, and MPA from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. 

Todd and his wife Robyn live in Boise with their two daughters.