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WBJ Special Section WBJ Announcement Winners Press Release

Congratulations to the 2023 Capital ORBIE winners!




Leadership

Aaron Weis

Super Global

Lauren Knausenberger

Global

Anne Kottmeier


Large Enterprise

Ghada Ijam

Enterprise

Judith Apshago

Large Corporate

Judith Conklin

Corporate

Scott Frost

Healthcare

Tim Skeen

Super Global Finalists

Niki
Allen

Cindy
Hoots

Lauren
Knausenberger

John
Russell

Global Finalists

Vishal
Gupta

Anne
Kottmeier

Adam
Levy

Aaron
Ruleman

Jerry
Tuan

Large Enterprise Finalists

Jay
Cavalcanto

Ghada
Ijam

Sovan
Shatpathy

David
Shive

Brad
Stone

Enterprise Finalists

Judith
Apshago

Guy
Cavallo

Rukevbe
Esi

Jamie
Holcombe

Michael
Misumi

Mike
Uster

Large Corporate Finalists

Ronda
Cilsick

Judith
Conklin

Mittal
Desai

Bert
Hardy

Vanetta
Pledger

Corporate Finalists

Scott
Frost

Vasili
Ikonomidis

Bill
Jewell

Kristanne
Littlefield

Charlie
Myers

Sean
Regunath

Healthcare Finalists

Ed
Grogan

Michael
Mistretta

Jackie
Rice

Tim
Skeen

Shant
Tossounian

Leadership Award Recipient

Aaron Weis, Google

Aaron is the Managing Director of Technology at Google Public Sector. He is responsible for the Technology strategy, accreditation, and solutions development for all Technology at Google Public Sector. Aaron oversees engagement with Engineering, Compliance, and Sales to ensure alignment and prioritization of resources in support of the GPS Technology Strategy, to bring the capabilities of Google Cloud to Public Sector customers including Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, Federal Civilian Agencies and State, Local and Educational customers. Before arriving at Google, Aaron was the CIO for the Department of the Navy. In that role, Aaron was responsible for the information technology and cyber activities for the Navy and Marine Corps, overseeing a workforce of more than 50,000 and the final authority for more than $12 billion in annual budget. Reporting to the Secretary of the Navy, Aaron was Principal Assistant for Information Management and accountable for policy, programming and budgeting associated with technology at the Department. While in role, Aaron established a broad Modernization program, consolidating 200 global networks and deploying modern cloud-based capabilities to 700,000 sailors, marines and civilians. Prior to the Department of the Navy, Aaron was the Senior Advisor to the Department of Defense CIO. He was focused on driving strategy and support for the critical CIO programs, including Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Enterprise Cloud, Cyber, and Command, Control and Communications (C3). He led the effort to develop the DoD Enterprise Cloud Strategy as well as the DoD IT Modernization strategy. Aaron led the first ever CIO accreditation of the $46 billion IT budget across the Department.

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