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The American Council forTechnology- Industry Advisory Council has chosen David Wennergren to be its new CEO. His first day was May 13.
Wennergren, who most recently was a managing director at Deloitte
address technology challenges. “Tech- nology is fundamentally changing the way government and industry work,” he said. “We need to learn and share the best examples of what works so that agencies can actually use them.”
He also stressed the need to enlarge the pool of government participants in those conversations. The CIO Council haslongworkedcloselywithACT-IAC, and Wennergren told FCW he wants similar engagement with chief finan- cial officers and chief human capital officers. He promised ACT-IAC would “reach out to all the centers of energy where new work is underway.”
The Defense Department announced in April that Brett Goldstein will suc- ceed Chris Lynch, the Defense Digital Service’s founding director.
Goldstein comes to the job after being a special adviser at the Depart- ment of the Navy, where he provided technical expertise on projects as varied as restructuring the Navy’s personnel
Brett Goldstein and Chris Lynch
and manpower systems and developing data analytics and machine learning for the Joint Special Operations Command.
He has a mix of government and private-sector experience. He was a managing partner at Ekistic Ventures
and CTO at GCM Grosvenor, a global investment and advisory firm. He was also Chicago’s first chief data officer and later CIO.
DDS employees serve on a term- limited basis, and Lynch left his post voluntarily, DOD officials told FCW. He was expected to help with the leadership transition through early May.
Trey Kennedy, a senior adviser to the CIO Council, has taken a job in the Justice
Department’s
Office of the
CIO.
David Wennergren
Consulting, has served as CIO at a num- ber of defense agencies, vice chair of the federal CIO Council, and executive vice president and
Kennedy
began his
work in sup-
port of the
council’s IT
management
efforts in January 2016, spanning two administrations and easing the transition of new IT personnel. He won a Federal 100 award in 2017.
AlyciaYozzi, an analyst in the General Services Administration’s Office of Infor- mation Integrity and Access, is expected to take over Kennedy’s responsibilities on the CIO Council. She has also worked in GSA’s Office of Governmentwide Policy, where she focused on digital strategy and customer experience and served as a platform manager for Digital.gov.
The role of the CIO council is to serve as an interagency setting that supports agency CIOs in their efforts to improve federal design, acquisition, development, management, moderniza- tion and use of information resources.
— FCW staff
chief operating officer at the Profes- sional Services Council. He is a Federal 100 winner and in 2007 won FCW’s Government Eagle award.
He succeeds Kenneth Allen, who served for 14 years as ACT-IAC’s executive director and last summer announced his plan to step down. The new position of CEO is designed to give the office more control and responsibility and provide continuing leadership despite the regular changes in membership of the organization’s two component boards.
“It is truly an honor to be selected as the CEO of...an extraordinary and long- standing force for good in the federal technology community,” Wennergren said. “ACT-IAC has a very special place in my heart. We have seen the power of the partnership when government and industry work together.”
His vision is to build on the organiza- tion’s history of fostering collaboration between government and industry to
Trey Kennedy
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