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2018 FEDERAL 100
Federal 100 Judges
FCW receives hundreds of nominations for the Federal 100, and an independent panel of judges reviews every one to identify the most worthy winners each year.The experts, all
of them past winners themselves, are the Federal 100’s “secret sauce,” and FCW is grateful for their time and expertise.This year’s panel is pro led below.
Daniel J. Chenok
Executive Director
IBM Center for the Business of Government
At IBM, Chenok combines his deep knowledge of how gov- ernment works with his busi- ness experience in the private sector. He started his career in government as branch chief for information policy and technol- ogy at the Of ce of Manage- ment and Budget and moved to the private sector in 2003. A three-time Federal 100 award winner, Chenok won FCW’s industry Eagle award in 2016.
Mary Davie
Deputy Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration
A career public servant and acquisition expert who has held a wide range of IT lead- ership roles at GSA, Davie permanently assumed the FAS deputy commissioner role in late 2017 after serving in an acting capacity for several months. She is also deeply involved in the broader federal IT community, having served as president of the American Council forTechnology and as an ACT-IAC Executive Commit- tee member. Davie has been a Federal 100 winner four times and won the government Eagle award in 2016.
Margie Graves
Federal Deputy CIO
Of ce of Management and Budget
Graves joined OMB on a tem- porary detail in 2016 after hav- ing served as a Department of Homeland Security executive almost since that agency’s cre- ation. She assumed her current role in early 2017 and served as acting U.S. CIO for most of last year. Graves was DHS’ deputy CIO for six years and was act- ing CIO for that agency as well. She is a two-time Federal 100 winner.
Jeanette Manfra
Assistant Secretary for the Of ce of Cybersecurity and Communications,
National Protection and Programs Directorate Department of Homeland Security
As DHS’ chief cybersecu-
rity of cial, Manfra supports the department’s mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Her previous positions include acting deputy undersecretary for cybersecu- rity and director for strategy, policy and plans at NPPD; senior counselor for cyberse- curity to the DHS secretary; deputy director of DHS’ Of ce of Emergency Communica- tions; and director of critical infrastructure cybersecurity for the National Security Council staff at the White House. She is also an Army veteran, having served as a communications specialist and a military intel- ligence of cer.
Essye Miller
Acting CIO
Department of Defense
A career member of the Senior Executive Service, Miller was appointed DOD’s acting CIO in December 2017. She also serves as the department’s deputy CIO for cybersecurity and senior information security of cer. She has held a number of other IT leadership roles, including director of cybersecurity for the Army CIO/G-6 and director of information management and CIO for Headquarters Air Force. Miller was a Federal 100 award winner in 2017.
Venkatapathi “PV” Puvvada
President
Unisys Federal Systems
Puvvada oversees all federal government operations at Uni- sys, where he has served in a variety of leadership roles since 1992. He has been Unisys Fed- eral Systems’ CTO and led the unit’s federal civilian agency business for four years before assuming the top job in 2014.
A four-time Federal 100 award winner, Puvvada is actively involved with the Professional Services Council, where he is currently on the board, and the Industry Advisory Council, which he chaired in 2007 and 2008. He was FCW’s industry Eagle award winner in 2015.
David M. Wennergren
Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting
Wennergren, who won FCW’s government Eagle award in 2007, has served as chairman of Federal 100 judging several times. He moved to the private sector in 2013 and now focuses on IT modernization and trans- formation with a range of fed- eral customers. His long career at the Defense Department includes serving as deputy
CIO and as the Department of the Navy’s CIO. A three-time Federal 100 winner, he also
is a past vice chairman of the federal CIO Council.
Renee Wynn
CIO
NASA
A career public servant, Wynn joined NASA in July 2015 as deputy CIO and stepped into her current role a few months later. She came to NASA from the Environmental Protection Agency, where she had worked for more than 25 years — the nal two as acting assistant administrator for the Of ce of Environmental Information. Wynn is the current president of the American Council for Technology.
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