Deseve is the Senior Advisor to the President for Recovery and Reinvestment. Previously, during the Clinton administration, he was the acting Office of Management and Budget deputy director.

Deseve has held a variety of roles both in the public and private sector. He has worked as the Controller for OMB, as well as the Chief Financial Officer at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was Special Assistant to the Governor of Pennsylvania, as well as Director of Finance for the City of Philadelphia. Additionally, he was worked for KPMG (as a partner and national industry leader), at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets (as Managing Director), and Affiliated Computer Services (as Senior VP). He has formed many consulting firms in his career as well, for example, one he established was Public Financial Management Incorporated.

Deseve is a graduate of Cornell University, where he received a B.S in Labor Economics. He later received his Masters in Government Administration in Public Finance from the University of Pennsylvania. DeSeve was a professor at University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy for 8 years. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute for Government.  He also was a Senior Fellow at James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. Most recently, he was the Chairman of Strategy and Solution Partners, which is a company that offers consulting services to non-profits as well as government.

Naylor is the Chief Information Officer for the U.S Small Business Administration. He was appointed this position this past August. Some of the areas of focus for this role include implementing new technology in SBA and staff professional development.

Before becoming CIO of SBA, Naylor was the Acting Deputy CIO and Strategic Technology Advisor to the SBA Administrator. Before that, Naylor worked at the Barack Obama National Campaign Headquarters. He was in charge of the Obama Campaign infrastructure technology implementations in several states.

Naylor is a graduate of Oxford University (in England) and Trinity College (in Ireland). Additionally, he attended Eastern College and Arcadia College. He received a degree in Business Administration in Organizational Management from Eastern College.

Dorris is the Deputy Associate Administrator at GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Communications. In this role, it is her responsibility to create both products and services that allow Federal agencies to improve their service to the overall public. She has worked nearly 30 years as an IT professional in both the private and government industry.

Dorris was a Federal 100 winner in 2004, 2006, and 2008. She was also recently named Civilian Agency IT Executive of the Year (by Government Computer News) due to her efforts pushing the use of leading-edge technologies at GSA, such as social media tools. Some of her other awards and achievements include President’s Quality Award for Management Excellence in 2007 and Service to the Citizen Award in 2008 (by AFFIRM).

In addition to her work as DAA at GSA, she has also been involved with the International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration for several years. Additionally, she was the President of the American Council for Technology from June 2007-June 2009.

Dr. de Sa is the Chief Strategist for the Federal Communications Commission. He has been Chief of OSP since this past July. Prior to this role, de Sa was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey & Company, he was a leader in both the U.S and Asia in Corporate Finance, Telecom/Media, and Private Equity practices.

As far as Dr. de Sa’s educational background, he is graduate of Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in theoretical physics. Dr. de Sa was a Kennedy Scholar at MIT. Additionally, he earned a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. This Research Fellow was in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program.

Mangogna is the CIO for the U.S Department of Homeland Security. In this role, it is his job to manage the department’s $5.4 billion in IT programs. He also defines the department’s priorities, guidelines, and policies. He also chairs the CIO Officer Council and Enterprise Architecture Board.

Before his role as CIO for the Department of Homeland Security, Mangogna worked as an executive consultant to the Office of the CIO for Immigration Customs Enforcement. He also previously worked in the private sector. He was the former Executive VP and CIO for JP Morgan Chase, President and CEO of COVIDEA, and President and COO of the electronic banking division of Chemical Bank.

Mangogna advanced his skills by going through the Harvard Advanced Management Development Program, the Harvard Managing Computer Resource Program, the Dartmouth Senior Management Program, as well as IBM’s Systems Engineering Program.

Sankaran is the Director of Federal Health Architecture. This is an E-Gov Initiative that is managed by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services.

Sankaran has received several awards, including the AFFIRM’s Leadership Award, and he was also named to Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100. One of his major successes was last year when several federal agencies and private sector organizations showed their ability to securely exchange information with Nationwide Health Information Network. This information exchange was able to take place due to the CONNECT gateway software solution built by Federal Health Architecture.

Before working at the Department of Health and Human Services, Sankaran worked as the director of IT and product operations at Carescience, Inc. This is a healthcare applications services provider; Sankaran has a successful track record in the healthcare IT industry. Sankaran received a degree in Engineering from Bharathiyar University in India.

Joshua B. Sawislak is a Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the GSA, and as of Feb. 28, 2008, has also served as the Acting Chief of the Office of Emergency Response and Recovery (OERR), which is responsible for leveraging all resources within GSA into one central office and providing support and assistance to first responders, emergency workers and recovery teams.

Sawislak’s core responsibilities as senior advisor are to provide advice and management support on a wide range of issues related to GSA goals of integrity efficiency, and accountability. He also facilitates and coordinates interagency working groups, industry information exchange, and other special projects.

Before working with the GSA, Sawislak held management positions on several of the country’s largest transportation projects .  He has also managed projects in management consulting, emergency planning, environmental management, transportation planning, and infrastructure development. A graduate of The George Washington University, Sawislak is a member of the Transportation Research Board, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Michael Robertson is the Associate Administrator of Governmentwide Policy and Chief Acquisition Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration, titles he has held since Aug. 10 of 2009. He was also appointed as White House Liaison on March 4, and continues to serve in that role.

His associate administrator position has him directing the Office of Governmentwide Policy, which develops and evaluates policies for management of the federal government’s internal operations. As chief acquisition officer, he develops and reviews acquisition policies, procedures, and related training for GSA and federal acquisition professionals. He also serves as the functional manager of GSA’s acquisition workforce.

Prior to his work at GSA, Robertson was the deputy working group lead for the Energy and Environment Agency Review Team on the Obama-Biden Transition Project. His work with Obama stretches farther back, though. He was the Director of Congressional Affairs on the Obama for America presidential campaign, where he was the primary point person for securing endorsements and superdelegate support from House and Senate members. And when Obama was still the senator of Illinois, Robertson was Legislative Coordinator and Deputy to the Chief Counsel. In this position, he managed the appropriations process, handled judicial nominations, and conducted political outreach to promote Obama’s legislative priorities. And in 2004, he worked in Chicago on Obama’s Senate campaign.

Robertson is a California native and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts. He earned his Juris Doctor from Golden Gate University School of Law, and is currently enrolled in the Georgetown University Law Center’s Masters of Law program.

Vivek Kundra is the federal chief information officer at the White House. President Barack Obama appointed Kundra in March 2009. As federal CIO, Kundra is responsible for directing policy and planning for IT investments at the federal level and providing oversight for IT spending throughout the federal government.

Before beginning his role as federal CIO, Kundra served at chief technology officer for the District of Columbia in Mayor Fenty’s cabinet. As CTO, Kundra was responsible for technology strategy and operations for more than 80 agencies.

In 2008, Kundra was named IT Executive of the Year and has been named in the top 25 CTO’s in the nation. Kundra has also served as assistant secretary for commerce and technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a strong proponent of cloud computing and has helped to move a number of federal agencies toward the cloud-computing model.

Kundra attended the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia and has a master’s degree in IT from the University of Maryland.

Casey Coleman is the chief information officer for U.S. General Services Administration, a position she’s held since Sept. 2, 2007. In her role, Coleman is faced with the task of  aligning technology with the administration’s strategic business objectives and efficiently and effectively managing its information technology solutions. She manages the $500 million GSA IT program.

Prior to her current position, Coleman served as the CIO for the U.S. General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) for almost a year, and before that, she served two years as the GSA Federal Technology Service CIO.  She  was also the head of the GSA Office of Citizen Services from June 2002 through July 2004, where she developed and successfully launched the USA Services government-wide citizen customer service program.

Coleman got her start at Lockheed Martin, where  she spent several years in software and system engineering roles, developing onboard command and control systems for military systems employed during the Gulf War.  She also served for a year as a Congressional Legislative Fellow in 1994.

Hailing from Texas, Coleman graduated with honors from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and then earned a master’s degree in business administration and finance from the University of Texas at Arlington.