ATARC Government Advisory Board

Stacie Alboum**
Deputy Director for Enterprise Strategy, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Ian Anderson
Lead DevSecOps Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center

Melvin Brown II
Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Gerald Caron
Chief Information Officer, International Trade Administration, United States Department of Commerce

Chakib Chraibi, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Chief Data Scientist and ODS Acting Director, National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce

Anil Chaudhry
Associate Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), U.S. Department of Transportation

Christopher Crist
Chief of Enterprise Transformation and Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps), U.S. Transportation Command

Mittal Desai
Chief Information Officer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Lon Gowen
Chief Data Officer/ Excellence in Government Senior Fellow/ Dale Carnegie Senior Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Amy Hamilton
Visiting Faculty Chair - Department of Energy, National Defense University (NDU)

Theresa Kinney
Director of Operations and Communications, NASA SEWP, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Major Y. Brian Lee
Brigade Operations Officer, 65th Medical Brigade, U.S. Army

LT Kenneth Miltenberger
Commanding Officer, 2003 Cyber Protection Team, U.S. Coast Guard

Patrick Newbold
Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Systems, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Social Security Administration

Crystal Philcox
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Travel, Transportation, & Logistics, General Services Administration

Robyn Rees
Director for Human Resources Strategic Initiatives, U.S. Department of the Interior

Colonel Kristin Saling
Director, CG's Innovation Cell, U.S. Army Human Resources Command

James Saunders
Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

John Sprague
IT Chief Engineer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Renata Spinks
Assistant Director/ Deputy Chief Information Officer IC4, U.S. Marine Corps

Gary Washington
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sterling Whitehead
Contracting Officer, General Services Administration

Mitchell Winans
Senior Advisor, Enterprise Digitalization, Internal Revenue Service
ATARC Industry Advisory Board

Jonathan Alboum
Federal Chief Technology Officer and Principal Digital Strategist, ServiceNow

Gail Azaroff
Regional Sales Director, Pluralsight

David Bray
Founder & Inaugural Director for Global GeoTech Center

Mary Brigden
Vice President, Federal, DocuSign

Natalie Carey
Director - Public Sector, Alliances & Ecosystem, Unqork

Robert Carey
President, Cloudera Government Solutions Inc.

Amber Chaudhry
CX Portfolio Lead, Partnership for Public Service

Tony D'Angelo
SVP, Global Government, Exiger

David Egts
Field CTO, Public Sector, MuleSoft, Salesforce

Sarah Fahden
Founder and CEO, LightFeather

Ivette Granier-Smith
Vice President, ASRC Federal

Kevin E. Greene
Public Sector CTO, OpenText Cybersecurity

Mark Guthrie
Vice President UW Solution Sales, Verisk

Stephen Hoffman
President, Fortinet Federal Inc

Anil Karmel
Co-Founder and CEO, RegScale

Frank Lancaster
Business Development Manager - Public Sector, Fidelis Cybersecurity

Michael Maiorana
VP Public Sector, Medallia

Matt Mandrgoc
Head of U.S. Public Sector, Zoom

Monica McEwen
Managing Director, Deloitte

Oki Mek
Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft

Keith Nakasone
Federal Strategist, VMware

Darryl Peek
Senior Director of Public Sector Channels and Alliances, Elastic

Chris Radosh
Head of Global Business Development, Eclypsium Inc.

Jim Richberg
Head of Cyber Policy and Global Field CISO, Fortinet

Bill Rucker
President, Trustwave Government Solutions

Dominic Sale
Vice President Government Affairs, REI Systems

Sanjay Sardar
President Civilian & Health Operating Group, ASRC Federal

Dean Scontras
Senior Director, Federal/Public Sector, Wiz

Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer, NetImpact Strategies Inc.

Randy Siegel
Founder and CEO, Center Circle Consultants

Todd Simpson
Staff VP Technology, Engineering & Operations, Carelon

Simon Szykman
Senior Vice President for Client Growth, Maximus

Trent Teyema
Founder and Principal, CSG Strategies

Gary Williams
Senior Growth Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton

Tristen Yancey
Director, Civilian Agencies, RegScale

David Yang
Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation, ICF

John Zangardi
President & CEO, Redhorse Corporation
ATARC Emeritus Advisory Board

Denise Hill
Former Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Energy
ATARC Academic Board

Joe Glover
Senior Advisor to University President, University of Florida

Rayvn Manuel
Senior Application Developer, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History and Culture

Henry Sienkiewicz
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University

Jamese Sims
Deputy Director of the Northern Gulf Institute and Strategic Advisor for Federal Partnerships, Mississippi State University

Hasan Yasar
Technical Director, Adjunct Faculty Member, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
ATARC Influencers

Jorge Alcazar
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, The Unmanned Advantage LLC

Craig Chapman
Chief Executive Officer, Gap Strategies Group LLC

Steve Cooper
Owner, Strategic Information Concepts

Amy Fadida
President & Chief Executive Officer, A.M. Fadida Consulting

Ken Farber
Solutions Architect, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, TekSynap

Daniel Haney
Director of Operations, Secuvy

Simon Hartley
United States Sales & Business Development, Quantinuum

Joel Horwitz
President and Chief Executive Officer, JAH Strategic Consulting, LLC

Jon Johnson
Principal, ConningtonSnow

Robert Merriner
Managing Partner, The Emery Group LLC

Graham Plaster
Director, Nautilus

Suro Sen
President, SENTECH Corporation

Alexa Tsui
Vice President, International Programs, MetaPhase Consulting
The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) and The Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC) announced their merger on May 31, 2018.
The merger brought together two non-profits with similar goals that provide professional development and collaborative forums for Federal government, academia and industry to identify, discuss and resolve emerging technology challenges.
GITEC Board Members who voted to merge with ATARC were: Michelle Barr, HUD; Walter Bigelow, ATF; Adriane Burton, HSRC; Rolando Estrada, DHA; Denise Hill, DOE; Luwanda Jones, VA; Robert Lahmann, SEC; Carlo Lucchesi, FBI; Darryl Peek, DHS; Chad Sheridan, USDA RMA; John Sprague, NASA; and Natasha Varlack, USDA AMS.
GITEC was established in response to a June 28, 1966 White House memorandum to provide a forum through which Senior Level Government and Industry Executives could share and collaborate in an open forum on Information Technology (IT) ideas, challenges and successes.
For over 50 years, GITEC organized and structured an impressive array of initiatives to focus on vital and timely issues affecting the direction and future of IT, including executive seminars, workgroups, summits, committees, and for 25 years, GITEC hosted the annual Information Processing Interagency Conference.
Beginning with its 25th anniversary in 2009, GITEC changed its focus to reflect a new era for IT professionals and a new Administration. In March of 2010, GITEC hosted its first GITEC Summit.
Similar to GITEC, ATARC expanded from its original focus.
Created in September of 2012, the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) was formed in response to the Digital Government Strategy, which was released earlier that year. AMARC founder Tom Suder played a prominent role in the formation of the DGS and created ATARC to continue the dialogue between government, industry and academia.
AMARC hosted a pair of Federal Mobile Computing Summits before being asked by the General Services Administration in 2013 to hold additional events on the topics of Cloud Computing and IT Networks.
As AMARC’s collaborative focus changed from Mobile to Federal IT, so too did its name. In early 2014, Suder renamed AMARC the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center and within the next year, ATARC expanded its portfolio to include Cybersecurity, DevOps, Data & Analytics and Health IT events.
In 2017, ATARC published a 235-page report to the American Technology Council and Federal CIO Council entitled Navigating the Future of Mobile Services. Produced in the spirit of the Digital Government Strategy and in conjunction with the cross-agency Mobile Services Category Team, the report was a collaborative effort between more than 160 people representing 75 agencies, bureaus and companies.
In 2018, ATARC published its 25th White Paper in conjunction with MITRE as outputs from events in the ATARC Federal IT Summit Series.
**This individual serves in his/her personal capacity.