The Government Technology & Services Coalition today announced the esteemed Board of the newly acquired FITGov Summit, the premier event for IT modernization, capital planning and governance. Information technology luminaries from across government have joined the newly merged Board of Directors, and have added their insight to a reconstituted program and mission.

“We are extremely pleased at the level of expertise and talent that has stepped up to add value to the CPIC process – we are particularly pleased with the addition of procurement and security to our mission. We see more and more that security must be ‘baked in’ to the process of IT modernization and planning,” said Kristina Tanasichuk, CEO & Founder of GTSC. “With the newly reconstituted Board, we have the team to revolutionize the process to reflect a more comprehensive approach and stay dynamic for the changing IT environment.”

GTSC founding board members and sponsors include:

Tushar Garg, Chair, FITGov Summit; CEO, Excelicon

Sophia Edwards, Vice-Chair, FITGov Summit; CEO, SharpEDG Consulting

Luke McCormack, Strategic Advisor, GTSC, former CIO, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Soraya Correa, Chair, Procurement, FITGov Summit; former Chief Procurement Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Mark Emery, Strategic Advisor of the Year 2021, GTSC; Managing Partner, The Emery Group; former and first Chief Information Officer, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Keith A. Jones, Strategic Advisor of the Year 2019, GTSC; President and CEO, Edgewater Group; former Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of State; former Acting Chief Information Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Chuck Wolverton, Partner, BDO

Denise Oberndorf, Vice President, Growth for Defense & Intel, Capgemini

Christine Halvorsen, Managing Director, Protiviti; former Assistant Director, FBI

Alexa Tsui, Vice President, Metaphase

Antonio Villafana, Strategic Advisor, GTSC; former CIO, Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

In addition to:

Art Boghozian, Vice President, Pyramid Systems

Eric Holbrook, Vice President, Financial Services Business Unit, Acuity, Inc.

AIM Council FITGov Board members:

William McVay, Chief Growth Officer, Logical Technology Research

Gustavo Calderon, President, Acquisition Workforce

Steve Cooper, Owner, Strategic Information Concepts; former CIO, U.S. Department of Commerce

Cyndy Iwan, Vice President, Service Delivery, Chevo Consulting

Kelly Morrison, Senior Vice President, HumanTouch LLC

Tanaia Parker, President and CEO, T. White Parker Associates

Nitin Pradhan, CEO, Launch Dream, Managing Partner, GOVonomy, former CIO, U.S. Department of Transportation

Government Liaisons:

Austin Henderson, Director, Mission Integration, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

Daryle Hernandez, Director, Interagency Security Committee, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Antonio Mitchell, Director, Business Management Office, U.S. Small Business Administration

Andrew Steuterman, Acting Director, IT Investment & Analysis Division, Business Management Office, Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Daniel York, Director, IT Data Transparency, General Services Administration

We welcome this extraordinary team of leaders to the FITGov team. Learn more about them and sign up for updates on the Summit at www.GTSCFITGovSummit.org. Join us on LinkedIn and Facebook @FITGovSummit.

The Summit will next convene in November 2022, in-person, and welcome non-GTSC members to the conversation.

Join the Business Development Exchange for a discussion with Julie Koo, the Division Director for the Information Technology Contracting Division at CBO. Register here.

Julie Koo is the current Division Director for the Information Technology (IT) Contracting Division, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); where she manages a $1.35 Billion annual portfolio for the Agency. Ms. Koo has held this position since 2017 and is guiding the organization to focus on the procurement of high-quality information technologies and services for CBP.

Ms. Koo has served in a variety of positions at CBP as well as the Department of Homeland Security Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C) Network Security Deployment (NSD) Division and the National Cybersecurity Communication Integration Center (NCCIC), currently known as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). During her tenure, she managed an over $1.5 billion portfolio of highly technical and politically-sensitive cybersecurity portfolio.

Her career at CBP started in 2005. Ms. Koo served as the primary CBP Lead for DHS’s Strategic Sourcing Group (SSG), to include the DHS Canine SSG, promoting sourcing strategies to enhance the Department’s acquisition system and leverage the Department’s buying power.

Join the Business Development Exchange for a discussion with John Leonard, the Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Trade at CBP.

Mr. John P. Leonard is the Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner (DEAC) of Office of Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Mr. Leonard oversees a diverse portfolio of trade enforcement, security, and facilitation to enable legitimate trade, contribute to American economic prosperity, and protect against risks to public health and safety. His work ranges from enforcing over 500 U.S. trade laws, to overseeing 14 trade agreements, to directing CBP’s seven Priority Trade Issues in collaboration with 49 partner government agencies.

Mr. Leonard previously served as the Executive Director for Trade Policy and Programs, Office of Trade until March 2021, leading CBP’s strategic efforts on Intellectual Property Rights, textiles, import safety, and antidumping and countervailing duties, while also responsible for policy guidance on trade agreements, interagency collaboration and public-private partnerships. Mr. Leonard has implemented two revolutionary e-Commerce pilots that allow for instantaneous data collection on low-value shipments, established the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Center and modernized U.S. customs brokers policy.

Mr. Leonard has over 30 years of experience at CBP and the former U.S. Customs Service, first beginning his career as an Import Specialist in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1989. Since then, he has worked in various leadership positions at CBP, from 2013 to 2017 as CBP Attaché to Singapore, and prior to this as the Area Port Director of San Francisco. As Area Port Director, he oversaw passenger operations at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and cargo operations at the Oakland Seaport.

Mr. Leonard holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master’s degree in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University. He is a graduate of the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellows program and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).