SIIA today announced the founding members of the Public Sector Innovation Group (PSIG) Board of Directors. PSIG is a newly formed division of SIIA dedicated to helping technology firms take advantage of the evolving federal investment in cloud-related technologies.
Newly appointed board members are executives from SIIA member companies and will add a critical voice to the ongoing debate on a host of key issues affecting the government IT industry, including cloud computing, FedRAMP, mobility, security, big data, procurement and innovation. The PSIG Board will help develop the Division’s initiatives and determine the projects, activities and events—which will include thought leadership around the implementation of cloud computing and an executive roundtable series with key decision-makers.
The Public Sector Innovation Group Board of Directors will be chaired by Doug Bourgeois, Vice President and Chief Cloud Executive at VMware, Inc.
All executives were appointed to serve one‐year terms.
Public Sector Innovation Group Board of Directors 2012:
• Mike Binko, President and CEO, kloudtrack
• Doug Bourgeois, VP & Chief Cloud Executive, VMware, Inc.
• Bart Epstein, SVP and GM, Military and Federal, Tutor.com
• Mark Forman, Founder, Government Transaction Services
• Tom Gann, Vice President, Government Relations, McAfee
• Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist, RedHat US Public Sector
• Joel Hinzman, Senior Director, Federal Affairs, Oracle
• Robert Hodges, Federal Business Development Lead, Bancroft Technology Group
• John Landwehr, VP Digital Government Solutions, Adobe
• David Lucas, Chief Strategy Officer, Global Computer Enterprises
• Preston McGee, Director of Business Development, Peniel Solutions LLC
• David Mihalchik, Business Development Executive – Federal, Google
• Michelle Rudnicki, VP, Cloud Computing IBM
• Jeff Ward, Vice President – Federal, Fiberlink
Laura Greenback is Communications Director at SIIA.