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Note: Winners’ affiliations in this list reflect where the accomplishments being recognized took place. Some individuals have since changed jobs; those moves are noted in the profiles that follow.
Kamran Khaliq
Senior Cyber Advisor, Office of the CIO
Department of Health and Human Services
Donna Klecka
Vice President, Defense Division, Information and Technology Solutions Group
ASRC Federal
Frank Konieczny
CTO
Department of the Air Force
Clair Koroma
Bureaucracy Hacker, Defense Digital Service
Department of Defense
Christopher Krebs
Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Department of Homeland Security
Rick Kryger
Deputy CIO
Department of Labor
Samuel Leitner
Data Scientist and AI Program Manager
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Eric Markow
Director, Web Applications Program Management Office Internal Revenue Service
Brad Medairy
Executive Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
Travis Methvin
Project Manager, Naval Commercial Cloud Services Department of the Navy
Col. Robert J. Mikesh
IT Lead, Operation Warp Speed
Department of Defense
Christina Monaco
Chief Ventures Officer
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Mark F. Newsome
Partner, Veterans Affairs and Defense Health
IBM Global Business Services
Laurence “Larry” Nichols III
Digital Forensics Investigator and Cybersecurity Engineer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrea Norris
Director of the Center for IT and CIO
National Institutes of Health
Col. Marc Packler
Commander, Cyberspace Capabilities Center
U.S. Air Force
Victoria Yan Pillitteri
Computer Scientist and FISMA Project Leader
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Laura Prietula
Deputy Director, Veterans Experience Office, Multi-Channel Technology Directorate Department of Veterans Affairs
G. Nagesh Rao
Acting CIO, Bureau of Industry and Security
Department of Commerce
Jim Richberg
Public Sector Field CISO
Fortinet Federal
Geo Saba
Chief of Staff for Rep. Ro Khanna
House of Representatives
Mark Santaw
CIO/G-6, Criminal Investigation Command
Department of the Army
Gissa Sateri
Director
REI Systems Inc.
James Saunders
Chief Information Security Officer
Small Business Administration
Andrew Schnabel
Vice President, Federal
Zscaler
Cristy Scott
Contracts Director
Department of Health and Human Services
Sonal Shah
Executive Director
Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation
Robert Shea
National Managing Principal, Public Policy
Grant Thornton
Nancy Sieger
CIO
Internal Revenue Service
Harrison Smith
Deputy Chief Procurement Officer
Internal Revenue Service
Nicholas Speece
Chief Federal Technologist
Snowflake
David Spirk
Chief Data Officer
Department of Defense
Robert Stein
Senior Vice President, North America Public Sector Salesforce
Elham Tabassi
Chief of Staff, IT Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Theresa Terry
Branch Chief, Contracting
Department of the Air Force
Michael Thieme
Assistant Director for Decennial Census Programs, Systems and Contracts
Census Bureau
Kiersten Todt
Managing Director
Cyber Readiness Institute
Nick Totten
Associate CIO
Department of the Treasury
Zachary Trojak
Area Vice President
Medallia
Dr. Ryan Vega
Chief Officer, Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning, Veterans Health Administration Department of Veterans Affairs
Eileen Vidrine
Chief Data Officer
Department of the Air Force
Rick Wagner
President
Microsoft Federal
Trevor Wagner
Testing and Sharing Lead, Procurement Innovation Lab Department of Homeland Security
Stephen “Steve” Wallace
Systems Innovation Scientist, Emerging Technology Directorate, Defense Information Systems Agency
Department of Defense
Lt. Gen. Chris Weggeman
Deputy Commander, Air Combat Command
U.S. Air Force
Lloyd “Colt” Whittall
Chief Experience Officer
Department of the Air Force
Sharon Woods
Executive Director, Cloud Computing Program Office, Defense Information Systems Agency
Department of Defense
Eliana Zavala
Management Analyst, Office of Federal Procurement Policy Office of Management and Budget
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