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TechAmerica Foundation Announces New GTO-21 Commissioners

Contact: Charlie Greenwald at 202.682.4443 or charlie.greenwald@techamericafoundation.org
Anne Caliguiri Savoie at 703.284.5305 or anne.savoie@techamericafoundation.org

Washington, DC (August 2, 2010) – Washington, DC  –  TechAmerica Foundation today announced the full membership of the Commission on Government Technology Opportunity in the 21st Century (GTO-21) on the morning of the body’s inaugural session. The group of leading technology management and procurement experts from industry and academia met today for the first of several working sessions to produce recommendations for improving the purchase and implementation of large-scale IT systems by the federal government.

“TechAmerica Foundation is proud to support such an impressive collection of expertise in this Commission,” said TechAmerica Foundation Chairman Phil Bond. “This is a serious effort to produce actionable recommendations for attainable, meaningful change in the way the government manages large-scale IT implementations. We look forward to helping the Commissioners produce their recommendations by Oct. 1 in time for the Administration to factor them into its FY 2012 budget planning.”

Linda Gooden, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions and Dr. Steve Kelman of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government co-chair the Commission. Renato (Renny) A. DiPentima, former CEO of SRA International Inc. and a senior adviser at Providence Equity Partners, and Christopher Yukins, co-director of The George Washington University’s Government Procurement Law Program, serve as co-vice chairs.

New commissioners include:

• Anne Reed, GM, President & CEO, Acquisition Solutions, Inc. (bio)
• Gerald Woolever, VP & Client Executive, ACS-a Xerox Company (bio)
• Margaret Rooney, AVP, Channel Marketing, AT&T (bio)
• Greg Baroni, Chairman & CEO, Attain, LLC (bio)
• Federico Genoese-Zerbi, VP IT Business Partners, Boeing (bio)
• Toni Townes-Whitley, VP, Consulting Services, CGI (bio)
• Jim Sheaffer, President, NA Public Sector, CSC (bio)
• Gene Procknow, Federal Market Leader, Deloitte Services, LLP (bio)
• Val Lyons, Leader of the Government and Public Sector Practice, Ernst & Young (bio)
• Ray Muslimani, President & CEO, GCE (bio)
• Roger Stough, VP for Research & Economic Development, George Mason University (bio)
• Steve Perkins, Partner, Chief of Strategy, Grant Thornton (bio)
• Dennis Stolkey, Senior Vice President, HP (bio)
• Todd Ramsey, GM, Public Sector, IBM (bio)
• Bob Dix, Vice President, Juniper Networks (bio)
• Ed Kearney, President & CEO, Kearney & Co (bio)
• Mark Forman, Partner, KMPG (bio)
• Teresa Carlson, VP. Federal, Microsoft (bio)
• Hugh Taylor, VP, Washington Operations, Northrop Grumman (bio)
• Michael Clancy, VP and Associate General Counsel, Oracle (bio)
• Randolph Barr, VP and Chief Security Officer, Qualys, Inc. (bio)
• T.W. Scott, VP, Mission Operations, Raytheon (bio)
• Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat (bio)
• Tom Sisti, Chief Legislative Counsel, SAP (bio)
• Mike Bennof, Executive Vice President, SXC Health (bio)
• Tom Anderson, President, Wyle Information Systems (bio)
• Jim Williams, former head of the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (Ret.) (bio)

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About TechAmerica Foundation
TechAmerica Foundation educates industry executives, policy makers and opinion leaders on the promise of technological innovation to advance prosperity, security and the general welfare. Launched in 2009, the foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit, non-partisan affiliate of TechAmerica, the leading voice and resource for the U.S. technology industry. It disseminates award-winning industry, policy and market research covering topics such as U.S. competitiveness in a global economy, innovation in government, and other areas of national interest. The foundation also organizes conferences and seminars to explore pertinent issues with government and industry representatives and to share the foundation’s findings. Learn more about TechAmerica Foundation atwww.techamericafoundation.org.