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Steve Sandeep Rao, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, serves as an At Large Council Member for the Town of Morrisville and served as Mayor Pro Tem from 2015- 2017.

He served as a Senior Business Development Executive at Alphanumeric Systems, a global tech company headquartered in Raleigh from January 2011 to May 2020. He now serves as Of Counsel and Adviser to State Federal Strategies, where he advises Technology Companies on State and Local Government Business Development Strategy.

Council Member Rao is the longest serving Asian American elected official in North Carolina.

Elected in 2011, Councilman Rao became the first Indian American elected official in Wake County and the Triangle region and the first one reelected in 2013. He serves as a Delegate to the Triangle J Council of Governments, Co-Chairs the Triangle J Smart Growth Committee, and as an Ex Officio Board Member of the Morrisville Innovation Foundation and has served as a member of the Triangle MLK Committee.