Todd Park joined the Health and Human Services Department as chief technology officer in August 2009. He is the former co-founder and board director of AthenaHealth, a practice-management company. Prior to his position at AthenaHealth, Park was a healthcare-management consultant with Booz Allen and Hamilton.

Park’s current duties include reporting to Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services William Corr and working with HHS leadership and agencies across the department to improve the health of Americans. He has also served a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on health IT and health reform policy, and as senior health care adviser to Ashoka, where he helped start a venture to bring affordable telehealth, drugs, diagnostics, and clean water to rural India.

Park earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College.

Laurie Morman serves as chief of staff at the Office of Management of the Department of Energy. In that capacity, Morman is responsible for human resources, budget and financial support, IT, administrative support for the Office of the Secretary, and competitive sourcing. Before her current position, Morman was director of DOE’s Administrative, Budget & Resource Management Group.

Other positions Morman has held at DOE include executive assistant to the director, management analyst, and freedom of information and privacy specialist.

Morman earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Marymount University, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from The College of William and Mary.

Joe Rose is the Department of Education’s chief enterprise architect. In this role, Rose has created and developed the department’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) program. Under his supervision, DOE established an effective EA governance structure, comprehensive future state vision, and an actionable enterprise-wide Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy.

Prior to his current position, Rose served as chief technology officer at the National Center for Education Statistics, where he led the development of Internet-based systems and services for data collection and publication. Before joining NCES, Rose held an IT position at the Census Bureau.

Rose is a graduate of University of Maryland College Park.

Scott Quehl was nominated in 2009 by President Obama as assistant deputy chief management officer at the Department of Commerce. Quehl was formerly president of Quehl Advisors, LLC, and senior managing director at Public Resources Advisory Group, where he advised state and local governments on issues related to capital market, budgeting, and management initiatives. At Public Financial Management, Quehl took a leave of absence to serve as acting, then permanent, chief financial officer of the Metropolitan Police Department for the District of Columbia.

Previously, Quehl has held positions at the Office of Management and Budget, JPMorgan Securities, Inc, the World Bank and the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He also has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras.

Quehl has a master’s degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Lawrence University.

Christine Shafik serves as director of the Office of Risk Management, Office of the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Energy. Shafik is responsible for ensuring effective oversight of the department’s financial resources planning and managing a comprehensive financial management oversight program. She is also responsible for implementing an effective internal control program and managing the department’s audit resolution and follow-up activities. In addition, Shafik provides a corporate financial review, analysis and reporting capability to the chief financial officer.

Before joining the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Shafik was director of the Northeast Inspection Region in the Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General. Prior to joining DOE, Shafik was a senior program analyst at the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Commerce,  where she managed international trade programs.

Julie Boughn serves as director and chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Before joining CMS, Boughn worked for 15 years as branch chief at the Social Security Administration.

Boughn has a master’s degree in information systems from the Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Maryland College Park.

Capt. Danelle Barrett is an information professional officer and assistant chief of staff for C4 for commander, Carrier Strike Group 2 for the Department of the Navy. She is also the former communications officer on COMCARSTRKGRU Twelve.

Prior to her current position, Barrett served as deputy knowledge manager at Multi-National Forces Iraq (MNF-I). Her key achievements there include developing an assessment of MNF-I knowledge-management state of affairs and creating and executing a fleet test of an open-standard chat capability on NIPRNet that included NATO, the Air Force, the Naval Postgraduate School, and afloat units.

Carol Bales is a senior policy analyst at the Office of Management and Budget. She is responsible for capital planning and investment, information security, and counterterrorism-information sharing. Bales also serves as portfolio manager for E-Authentication, a system used by USDA agencies to enable customers to obtain accounts that will allow them to access USDA Web applications and services via the Internet. Up until 2008, Bales served as lead policy analyst for HSPD-12 and the federal government’s transition to Internet Protocol Version 6.

Before her current position at OMB, Bales served as deputy associate CIO for cybersecurity at the Department of Energy. In that role, she helped developing and implementing an information security program to include ensuring the continued successful operation of cybersecurity programs and initiatives throughout the department. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, she held positions at the Department of Justice and NASA.

Some of Bales’s awards include a 2008 OMB Special Achievement Award for HSPD-12 implementation, a 2007 AFFIRM Leadership Award for Innovative Applications, and a 2005 Federal 100 Award.

Bales earned her bachelor’s degree in information systems from the University of Maryland.

Emma Antunes has been the Web manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center since 1995. As such, she is responsible for technology expertise, Web policy and governance, and community leadership. Antunes also held a major part in developing and launching NASA’s internal social network, Spacebook.

Antunes holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University. She is also the recipient of a 2010 Federal 100 Award.

John D. Negroponte is the former U.S. deputy secretary of state and director of national intelligence, and currently serves as research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at his alma mater, Yale University.

Negroponte began his career in 1960 when he joined the Foreign Service and was posted in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also was a four-time ambassador, with assignments that took him to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Iraq. In addition, Negroponte also served as assistant secretary of state for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs.

In the private sector, Negroponte was employed as executive vice president for global markets at The McGraw-Hill Companies, where he oversaw the company’s international activities.

Negroponte served as the United States permanent representative to the United Nations from 2001 until he became U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Negroponte then became the principal intelligence adviser to President George W. Bush and the nation’s first-ever director of national intelligence in 2005, with responsibilities that included overseeing and coordinating intelligence-community employees across 16 federal agencies and departments. In 2006, Negroponte became deputy secretary of state and served as the department’s chief operating officer.

Negroponte has twice received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Medal. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Negroponte the National Security Medal for his outstanding contributions to U.S. national security.