Byron Adams is the legal counsel for the Department of the Navy’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. His responsibilities include reviewing and providing legal approval for documents relating to IT acquisitions. Adams has also been involved with developing a proposal to consolidate IT resources in Guam for the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

Bev Godwin is the General Services Administration’s director of new media and citizen engagement. Before landing at GSA in 2001, Godwin was director of online resources and interagency development for new media at the White House. Prior to that, she was deputy director at the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (1993 to 2000) where she was placed in an interagency group that sought to build a state and local government information portal on the Web.

From 1982 to 1993, Godwin was branch chief for the Office of Budget at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that employment, Godwin worked as a research associate at a few consulting firms.

Godwin earned her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 1977 and a postgraduate degree from University of Michigan in 1982.

Since 1987, Andy Schoenbach has served as chief of the Budget Systems Branch at the Office of Management and Budget. He is responsible for OMB’s MAX central budget systems that support the formulation and publication of the president’s budget, as well as for data collection, tracking and decision-support activities.

In addition, Schoenbach is the policy lead for the Budget Formulation and Execution E-Gov Line of Business initiative that is enhancing the effectiveness of federal budgeting under the programs of the Budget Officers Advisory Council.

Previously, Schoenbach held senior-management positions with the New York State Department of Health in support of state-wide public health information, provider regulation, healthcare-financing regulation, and service delivery (by Debra ). He also served as senior budget analyst for the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee.

Schoenbach holds a bachelor’s degree with concentrations in physics, mathematics, and economics from the New York University College of Arts and Sciences, and a master’s degree in policy sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Appointed by President Barack Obama, Karen G. Mills is the 23rd administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Her responsibilities include helping small-business owners and entrepreneurs secure financing, technical assistance, training and federal contracts.

Mills has been an active hands-on investor and successful manager of small businesses since 1983. She has also been an advocate for small-business policy that encourages innovation, economic development and job creation.

Before her position at SBA, Mills was president of MMP Group, where she invested in and took a leading role in companies involved in the consumer products, food, distribution, textile and industrial components sectors. Prior to MMP Group, she was co-founder and managing director of Solera Capital.

Mills spent most of her career working with small manufacturing firms, including producers of hardwood flooring, refrigerator motors and plastic injection molding. Her background also includes consulting domestically as well as internationally for the management-consulting firm McKinsey and Co. and product management for General Foods.

In 2007, Maine Gov. John Baldacci appointed Mills as chair of the state’s Council on Competitiveness and the Economy. In addition, Mills served on the Governor’s Council for the Redevelopment of the Brunswick Naval Air Station.

Mills also wrote a Brookings Institution paper on the federal role in regional economic development clusters–geographic concentrations of interconnected businesses that share knowledge and resources to spur innovation, economic growth and higher wage employment.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been vice chairman of the Harvard Overseers. Mills earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Harvard Business School.

Paul Christy serves as chief technology officer for the U.S. Small Business Administration, a position in which he manages the infrastructure and technology operations for SBA’s 200+ U.S. locations. Christy leads SBA’s initiatives in data-center consolidation and service-oriented architecture, as well as collaborative computing.

Before his current position, Christy was deputy chief information officer at Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration.

Ferriero is the 10th Archivest of the United States, where he oversees the National Archives and Records Administration, a position he has held since November 2009.  Prior to his current role, Ferriero had worked with the New York Public Libraries (NYPL) since 2004.   During his time as the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the NYPL, he developed and streamlined a service integrating 87 libraries and four research libraries.  Following a stint in the Navy during the Vietnam War, Ferriero worked at the humanities library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 31 years, before moving on to a senior position at Duke University.  While at Duke, he oversaw the exapansion and renovation of the university’s library.  Ferriero holds English literature degrees from Northeastern University and a master’s degree the Simmons College of Library and Information Science in Boston.

Fort is project lead for the Office of Management and Budgets MAX federal program, where she uses collaboration and IT to bolster the ability of 17,000 government employees to safely exchange information.  In the past, she worked for the National Science Foundation’s budget office, compiling analyses summarizing NSF’s performance and budget and financial data for NSF senior management, the National Science Board, and other advisory committees.

Eisen is Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, a position he has held since Barack Obama took office in January 2009.  Described as “Mr. No” by the Washington Post, the career D.C. attorney was first tasked with making Obama’s campaign promises concerning the role of lobbyist influence on the White House a reality.  He also administered various seminars to White House staff in regards to ethic guidelines and serves as an advisor to the staff on the topic.  Following his undergraduate studies at Brown University, he attended Harvard Law School where he met Obama.  A partner at the Zuckerman Spaeder law firm, Eisen also co-founded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).  Eisen was a major fundraiser for Obama during his campaign.

Charles Wisecarver is the Principal Deputy CIO for Operations and CTO for the U.S. Department of State. He began these roles in June of 2005. He is a member of the Senior Foreign Service and holds the rank of Minister Counselor. Prior to his current role, Wisecarver was Director of the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset Program Office, which is the Department’s IT priority.

Wisecarver has spent just about half of his career in overseas missions as an Information Management Specialist. For example, he worked in both Mexico and Ecuador in the management of the computer systems and telecommunications networks. Wisecarver also previously served as the Director of IRM’s Messaging Systems Office in the Department of State. Before working for the Department of State, Wisecarver worked at the Department of Defense as a computer programmer analyst. Additionally, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger.

Patillo is the Deputy CIO of the U.S. Department of Transportation. She has been in this role since October of 2005.  Prior to this role, Patillo served as the CIO at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Patillo’s entire career has been in public service.

Before working at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Patillo was head of the infrastructure at the United States Mint. Patillo previously served as the CIO and Director of Data Systems Management for Alabama. Additionally, she was the CIO for the City of Anniston.

Patillo gradated from Jacksonville State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems. She later attended Auburn University where she earned a Master of Science degree in Public Administration.