Join Deltek for a federal executive breakfast featuring former CIOs from a variety of top government agencies, who will share insights on their government experience and what they are doing now.

Discussions during this breakfast session include:

  • Insight on how to market your business to the federal government
  • Understanding the role of a federal CIO and how you can position your business
  • Challenges and perspectives of former federal CIOs and their insight on today’s government market place.

Panelists:

Linda Y. Cureton
CEO & Founder
Muse Technologies

Vance Hitch
Senior Advisor
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Nitin Pradhan
Managing Partner, GOVonomy
CEO and President, Public Private Innovations

Richard Spires
Chief Executive Officer
Resilient Network Systems

Sponsorship opportunities available. Contact Stephanie Rogers to request more information and pricing at 703-480-5500.

Agenda
7:00 a.m. Registration & Networking
7:30 a.m. Networking Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Kevin Plexico
Vice President, Information Solutions
Deltek

8:05 a.m. Panel Discussion:

Insights from Former Federal CIOs – Past, Present & Future

Moderator:

Kevin Plexico
Vice President, Information Solutions
Deltek

Panelists:
Linda Y. Cureton
CEO & Founder
Muse Technologies

Vance Hitch
Senior Advisor
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Nitin Pradhan
Managing Partner, GOVonomy
CEO and President, Public Private Innovations

Richard Spires
Chief Executive Officer
Resilient Network Systems

9:00 a.m. Event Concludes

Speakers
Kevin_Plexico

Kevin Plexico
Vice President, Information Solutions
Deltek

Kevin Plexico is Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek where he manages the delivery of Deltek's industry leading government market research and information products providing essential information and insights to over 2,800 clients. Mr. Plexico has responsibility for leading the industry's largest team of analysts focused on the government contracting industry.

Mr. Plexico came to Deltek from its acquisition of INPUT in 2010. At INPUT, Mr. Plexico played an instrumental role in helping to grow the company from a boutique market research firm to the industry leading provider of market information to government contractors.

Mr. Plexico provides thought leadership and expert opinion to industry executives and is a recognized expert on the public sector market.

Mr. Plexico earned an MBA in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland and a B.B.A. in Economics from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.


Linda_Cureton

Linda Y. Cureton
CEO & Founder
Muse Technologies

Linda is the CEO of Muse Technologies, Incorporated. Muse Technologies is a WOSB that delivers transformation and IT consulting services to bring innovation and management efficiency to Government clients and industry partners. Linda’s expertise and success delivering cloud computing, mobility, social media and enterprise solutions spans 34 years and has kept her at the top of her industry. Serving government as a Cabinet-level CIO to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and in key management positions within the Departments of Energy and Justice, Linda is well known in the public sector for her ability to communicate, lead and drive change with a record for delivering innovation and reducing costs.

As the former Chief Information Officer for NASA, she led one of the best IT organizations in government. Linda served as principle adviser to the NASA Administrator, providing insight and technology leadership to some of the most brilliant scientists and engineers in the world. She held various other executive IT positions, including associate CIO at Department of Energy and deputy CIO at Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

Linda is well known as a strong leader and innovator. While CIO, she created the popular NASA CIO blog and continues to be a prolific blogger. She received significant recognition for being a pathfinder for other federal CIOs in professional use of social media. She has written several articles for Federal Computer Week and Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is a monthly contributor to Information Week Government. She is the author of The Leadership Muse, an educational and inspirational book that outlines lessons for today’s heroic leadership journey.

She currently serves on advisory boards for the Open Systems Software Institute, the Professional Capture Management Forum and the DC Youth Orchestra Program. Some of her former professional affiliations have included the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Gartner Group Information Technology Executive Program, Women in Technology, American Council for Technology, Government Information Technology Executive Council and the Society for Information Management, Advanced Practices Council.

She has received prestigious awards including the 50 Women of Influence and Power Award from the Minority Enterprise Executive Council and the ITSMF Summit Heritage Award. Linda has also received recognition from the Washington Business Journal – Women Who Mean Business and Women in Technology Award Finalist for Excellence in Leadership, Mentoring and Technology. She was honored as Government Computer News Civilian Executive of the Year and was recognized as one of Washingtonian Magazine’s Tech Titans, one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100, and one of Business Insider’s 25 Most Powerful Women Engineers.


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Vance Hitch
Senior Advisor
Deloitte Consulting LLP

As a strategic advisor for Deloitte’s Federal practice, Vance helps Deloitte’s federal clients and federal CIOs identify long-term technology and transformation opportunities, to help them see the art of the possible in using technology to fundamentally change the way they do business.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Vance was the longest serving federal CIO in his role as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Information Officer of the Department of Justice (DOJ). At DOJ, he was responsible for leading and implementing effective and efficient IT acquisition and management across the Department. He managed the DOJ’s $2.8 billion IT programs, providing oversight and strategic guidance to the components within the Department, as well as major internal investments that served more than 115,000 employees in approximately 2,000 locations within 500 U.S. cities.

Vance also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Federal Chief Information Officer Council and co-chair of the Council’s Information Security and Identity Management Committee, which leads cross-government cyber initiatives. He was a central figure in shaping the Obama Administration’s technology policy.

Prior to his role at DOJ, Vance spent 28 years in private industry, providing IT consulting services to the federal government. He earned a Masters of Systems Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Muhlenberg College. He also served in the United States Navy from 1969-1973, attaining the rank of lieutenant.


Nitin_Pradan

Nitin Pradhan
Managing Partner, GOVonomy
CEO and President, Public Private Innovations

Nitin Pradhan is the Managing Partner of GOVonomy, the nations first strategic technology-sourcing marketplace for the public sector. GOVonomy connects public organizations with new technology products and productized services from growth companies and helps arrange strategic discussions, demonstrations and pilots for increased understanding, education, purchasing and integration to reduce technology deployment cost and increase speed of execution.

Nitin is also the CEO of Public Private Innovations (PPI), the first nation’s growth accelerator focused on the public sector. The PPI program is a capacity and capability builder that provides immediate access to high-end advice, guidance, research, analysis, design, development, prototyping, productizing, testing, engineering, staffing, operations and troubleshooting expertise at a fraction of the cost of maintaining such expertise in house. Nitin is also an expert author for Information Week, and is on the board of Innovative Solutions Consortium.

Nitin was a recent Obama administration appointee and award winning, nationally recognized federal CIO for the US Department of Transportation (DOT) where he provided IT vision, strategy, policy and oversight for US DOT’s more than $3.0 billion IT portfolio, the 6th largest in the federal government. Nitin’s focus has been on utilizing technology transformatively, innovatively and strategically to drive significant business and public value.
The CIO magazine honored Nitin Pradhan with CIO 100 award for the innovative approaches to use IT to reduce costs and increase efficiency and public value. Computer World magazine also named Nitin to its Computer World Premier 100 lifetime recognition award where he joins an elite group of top US IT executives. Nitin has been on Information Week’s “Government CIO 50: Driving Change in the Public Sector” for bringing a businessperson’s point of view to management of IT strategy, policy and implementation. Under his leadership, the US DOT Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has also won awards from the White House, Information Week, GTRA, AFFIRM, and the U.S. General Services Administration for leadership, innovation, open government, governance, service and culture.

Prior to joining US DOT, Nitin was an IT Executive at Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), the 11th largest school district in USA. FCPS’ IT department was ranked in the CIO Magazine’s Top 100 IT Organizations and Computer World’s 100 Best Places to Work in the nation during Nitin’s tenure. Prior to joining FCPS, Nitin was the Managing Director of Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT). Nitin has also been the co-founder and CEO of a wireless startup.

Nitin has a BS in engineering and a MBA in marketing from India, as well as a MS in accounting from The American University, in Washington DC.


Richard Spires
Chief Executive Officer
Resilient Network Systems

Richard A. Spires currently serves as the CEO of Resilient Network Systems, a San Francisco-based software firm that provides the Trust Network platform to bring trust to the cloud and the Internet of Things. Trust Networks virtualize real-world relationships and conditions of trust by resolving identities in the network and enforcing each party's rules in transit.

Mr. Spires was appointed and served as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) from August 2009 till May 2013.  In this capacity, Mr. Spires was responsible for the strategy and operations of the department’s annual $5.6 billion investment in Information Technology (IT).  Mr. Spires was the chairman of the DHS Chief Information Officer Council and the Enterprise Architecture Board.   Mr. Spires also served as the Vice-Chairman of the Federal Government CIO Council and the Co-Chairman of the Committee for National Security Systems (CNSS), the committee that sets standards for the US Government’s classified systems.

Mr. Spires held a number of positions at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2004 through 2008.  He served as the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, having overall responsibility for the key support and administrative functions for the IRS, to include Information Technology, Human Capital, Finance, Shared Services, Real Estate, and Security functions.  Prior to becoming Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Spires served as the IRS’ CIO, with overall strategic and operational responsibility for a $2 billion budget and a 7,000-person Modernization and Information Technology Services organization.  Mr. Spires led the IRS’s Business Systems Modernization program for two and half years, which is one of the largest and most complex information technology modernization efforts undertaken to date. 

From 2000 through 2003, Mr. Spires served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director of Mantas, Inc., a software company that provides business intelligence solutions to the financial services industry.  In helping to establish Mantas, Mr. Spires successfully led efforts to raise $29 million in venture funding.  Prior to Mantas, Mr. Spires spent more than 16 years serving in a number of technical and managerial positions at SRA International. 

Mr. Spires currently serves on the Board of Directors of Learning Tree International (NASDAQ: LTRE).  He is also an investor and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mortgage Harmony, a company bringing innovative loan products to the mortgage industry. 

Mr. Spires received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Cincinnati.  He also holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University. Mr. Spires has won a number of awards for his leadership in IT, to include the 2012 Fed 100 Government Executive Eagle Award, TechAmerica’s 2012 Government Executive of the Year, Government Computer News 2011 Civilian Government Executive of the Year and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering in 2006. 

Sponsorship Opportunities

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Date & Time

Wednesday,
April 23, 2014
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Et

Location

Hilton McLean Tysons Corner
7920 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22102

Registration Fees
Deltek Customer: $65
Non-customer: $95
Government: Free with a valid Military or Government ID

Registration closes at noon, April 22, 2014.


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