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.