Allen is the Acting CIO of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has been in this role since December 2008.  Before this position, Allen was the Deputy CIO for Business and IT Modernization.  Prior to that, Allen was the Associate Chief Information Officer for Cyber Security at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Additionally, Allen served as the Assistant Inspector General for IT at the U.S. Department of State from 2003 to 2005.  Before working there, Allen was the Director of the Network Lifecycle Management Division from 2002 to 2003. Allen was the Branch Chief for the centralized information technology help desk from 2000 to 2002.

Allen also has a military background. He served in the U.S. Air Force where worked as an Information Manager, as well as an Electronics Countermeasures specialist. Allen graduated from Central Michigan University, where he earned a Master’s of Science Administration. He attended University of Maryland University College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Studies. He also attended Strayer University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.

Staton is the Deputy CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy. He has held this position since October 2006. Prior to working at the Department of Energy, Staton worked in the Federal government in different IT positions. He spent over 26 years in various positions in the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Staton also served in the Senior Executive Service as the Director of Central Operations at NOAA’s National Weather Service. Following that, in 2001 Staton was the CIO for the National Weather Service and the following year he became CIO of the NOAA. Additionally, Staton was named Director of High Performance Computing and Communications for NOAA.

Staton graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He has received several honors and awards in his career such as the GSA Interagency Committee on Information Resource Management Technical Excellence Award and the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal.

Teeter is the Deputy CIO for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior this role he was t he Chief Enterprise Architect for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Teeter has over 27 years of experience working in various positions and areas at the Department of Health and Human Services. One of his major focuses during these 27 years has been IT project and program management. However, recently his focus has shifted on enterprise information resource management programs and enterprise architecture endeavors.

Before embarking on his career at the Department of Health and Human Services, Teeter spent time at the Social Security Administration, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the CDC, Teeter held the position of Chief Enterprise Architect. Teeter graduated with a degree in biology.

Graves is the Deputy CIO of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Before she was selected for this role, in September of 2008, Graves was the Executive Director of the Enterprise Business Management Office, which is within the Department of Homeland Security Office of the CIO. Additionally, she was the Deputy Program manager for the Border and Transportation Security IT Integration Program.

Outside of her public service, Graves has over 20 years of experience in management consulting. She has held a variety of executive positions in the management consulting industry and has experience in the following areas: systems engineering, business process reengineering, financial management, strategic planning, venture capital planning, as well as mergers and acquisitions. She worked at A.T Kearny, Inc. for 10 years and she also spent time at Technology Applications, Inc, Planning and Researching Corporation, and Advanced Technology, Inc.

Graves graduated from the University of Virginia, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. She later went on to earn a MBA from University of Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

Pyke is the CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy.  Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Pyke worked at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was the CIO there from 2001 to 2005.  Pyke worked at the Department of Commerce for over 30 years in senior management roles and his focus was on information technology. During his time as CIO at the Department of Commerce, he was in charge of major enhancements in IT security, planning, and investments.

Pyke started his career at the National Bureau of Standards. He was the Director of the Center for Computer Systems Engineering and following that he was the Director for the Center of Programming Science and Technology. After that, Pyke joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where he became an Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services. He was in this role for 6 years before he became the NOAA Director for High Performance Computing and Communications. Following that, he was NOAA’s first ever CIO.

Pyke graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology where he was a Westinghouse Scholar. He later earned a Master’s in Computer Systems from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow. Pyke has received several awards in his career such as the Who’s Who in America, the Department of Commerce Gold Medal award, Engineering Science Awards, and 2 Presidential Meritorious Rank Awards.

A member of the Senior Executive Service, McMillin is the deputy chief of warfighting integration and deputy CIO of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. McMillin partakes in leading five directorates and four field-operating agencies consisting of more than 1,800 military and civilian personnel and contractors supporting a portfolio valued at $17 billion.

Prior to his current assignment, McMillin was the deputy director of the Air Force staff in Washington, D.C. He began his federal civil-service career in the early 1980s as an auditor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency. He later served as an operations and maintenance budget analyst for Naval Air Systems Command, and as a procurement budget analyst for the Office of the Comptroller of the Navy.

Following those positions, McMillin performed duties as a management support director and executive director at the Naval Plant Representative Office in Melbourne, Australia. He returned to the Pentagon as a budget analyst for the Defense Business Operations Fund in the Office of the Comptroller of the Navy where he stayed until 1992.

From 1992 to 1997, McMillin served as the technical director, then as the deputy director for program analysis and financial management at U.S. Transportation Command. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1997 as USTRANSCOM’s deputy director for plans and policy.

Later, he was assigned to U.S. Air Force headquarters as associate director of programs in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Programs. He was then appointed director for policy, planning and resources for the Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer.

McClam is the deputy chief information officer for policy for the USDA, Office of the Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction for IT and cybersecurity policies, capital planning and enterprise architecture for USDA’s IT program.

Before joining USDA, McClam served as the acting and deputy CIO at the United States Small Business Administration. His responsibilities included overseeing the management and operations of the agency’s IT enterprise; data center and telecommunication operations; and IT infrastructure support for 79 locations throughout the continental United States, Guam and Puerto Rico.

In his role as the acting CIO, McClam modernized the agency’s aging COBOL Loan Accounting Systems mainframe system that supported a $90 billion loan portfolio, and he also served as the managing partner and executive lead responsible for implementing a government-wide, multimillion-dollar business gateway IT solution.

McClam also held a position as the lead Internal Revenue Service executive responsible for the successful year 2000 code-renovation initiative. At the Department of Justice, he served as the assistant director of the Information Management & Security Staff, where he managed and oversaw IT requirements for the department’s major law enforcement and litigation components.

McClam earned his Master of Public Administration from the Troy State University, and he also completed advanced graduate degree studies in Information Systems Management from the University of Southern California, as well as attended advanced management studies as a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.

Swart is the CIO for the U.S. Department of State. She has held this position since February 2008 and currently is a member of the Senior Foreign Service and has a rank of Minister Counselor.

Before her role as CIO for the Department of State, Swart was the Deputy CIO for Business, Planning, and Customer Service and the Chief Knowledge Officer. Swart worked in the Foreign Service from 1989 to 2006 and she held various positions overseas, as well as in Washington. For example, one of the positions she held was Dean of the School of Applied Information Technology at the Foreign Service Institute.

Some of her other duties included: Information Management Officer in Cairo, Egypt, Office Director for Customer Service, Bureau of information Resource Management, Deputy Executive Director in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Special Assistant in the Bureau of Administration, as well as various Information Management assignments in Caracas, Venezuela.

Swart graduated from National War College. She also attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she earned her undergraduate degree.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sorenson is the Department of the Army staff’s chief information officer/G-6. Before his current position, Sorenson was the deputy for acquisition and systems management to the assistant secretary of the Army.

After graduating from the United States Military Academy,  Sorenson was commissioned as a second lieutenant in field artillery, serving in tactical units at III Corps Artillery and in Germany. Following his transfer into the Military Intelligence Corps, he served as the division artillery intelligence officer and completed several assignments at the division staff and operational level.

Sorenson has more than 20 years of acquisition experience as a certified U.S. Army material acquisition manager. Some of his acquisition assignments have included director of program control; course director for the Executive Program Managers Course; director of science and technology integration; product manager for ground-based common sensor-light programs; and project manager for night vision/reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition.

Sorenson received his bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy and earned an MBA from Northwestern University. He is also a graduate of the program manager and executive program managers courses at the Defense System Management College; the Armed Forces Staff College; and the Army War College.

Hitch is the CIO of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has held this position since 2002. Before working at the Department of Justice, Hitch worked as a Senior Partner at Accenture. While he worked at Accenture, for 28 years, he helped lead various government organizations (such as Department of Sate, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and several state and local governments) through big change initiatives.

Hitch also served in the U.S. Navy for 5 years, and he attained the rank of lieutenant. Hitch graduated from George Washington University, where he earned a Master’s of System Management. Prior to that, he attended Muhlenberg College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics.