Nominated by their peers, the G2X Change Agent Award recognizes Federal IT and Consulting leaders from industry and Government who are working every day to take calculated risks and positively disrupt the Federal market, while having a measurable impact on the culture and the critical missions of the organizations they serve.
Check out this year’s Program Awardees here.
Congratulations to the 2022 Change Agent Awardees:
Abraham George
Program Manager, Customer Experience & Data Science
Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs
Amanda Purnell, PhD
Director, Data and Analytics Innovation
Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem
Anne Lord Bailey
Director, Clinical Tech Innovation
Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem
Augie Turano, PhD
Director, Data Migration and Data Syndication
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Barbara C. Morton
Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer
Veterans Experience Office, Department of Veterans Affairs
Ben Amor, PhD
Lead, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Palantir Technologies
Brock Ramos
Technical Project Manager
Office of Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics, Internal Revenue Service
Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer
NetImpact Strategies
Dave Vennergrund
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Data Insights
GDIT
David Spirk
Chief Data Officer
Department of Defense
Donald Burgess
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
Donna Roy
Strategic Advisor, National Security Sector
Guidehouse
Jan Millard
Technical Project Manager
Internal Revenue Service
Jason Nemecek
National Soil Data Applications Scientist
Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture
Kate Maynor Sweeney
Section 508 Program Director
Office of Governance, Strategy, and Policy, Office of Enterprise Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Ken Gersing, MD
Director of Informatics, Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Laura Morton
Program and Management Analyst (Evaluation Data Strategy)
Farm Production and Conservation, US Department of Agriculture
Maria (Coqui) Aspiazu
Digital Branch Chief
Office of Communications, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
Mark Junda
Acquisition Adviser – Digital Service Expert
United States Digital Service
Mark Plaugher
Deputy Director, Information Systems Group, CCSQ
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Martin Swanson
Supervisory Tax Analyst
Internal Revenue Service
Matt Graviss, PhD
Chief Data Officer
Department of State
Michael Whitecar
Chief Operating Officer
Avētus
Mike Eddings
President and Chef Executive Officer, OptumServe Technology Services
OptumServe
Mike Horton
Chief Data Officer
Department of Homeland Security
Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry
Chief Technology Officer
Food & Drug Administration
G. Nagesh Rao
Chief Information Officer
Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce
Olexiy (Alex) Karakcheyev
IT Specialist
Office of Communications, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
Pamela Isom
Director
Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office, Department of Energy
Polly Hall
Executive Director, Procurement Innovation Lab
Department of Homeland Security
Preston Werntz
Chief Data Officer
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Rachel Fuhrman
Assistant Director
Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs
Ram Iyer
Chief Data Officer
Food and Drug Administration
Raymond Wedgeworth
Director, Data Analytics and Systems Group
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Rich Baca
Chief Data Officer, Marketing and Regulatory Programs
US Department of Agriculture
Rita Breen
Agile and HCD Practices Director
National Government Services
Robert Burger
Director, Division of Applications Development & Support
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Robert Wood
Chief Information Security Officer and Director of the Information Security and Privacy Group
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Rupal Lamorena
Managing Director, Technology
Accenture Federal Services
Steven Greenspan
Senior Director
ECS Federal
Vidit Majmudar
Sr. Technical Advisor, Data and Systems Group Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Zach Fain
Senior Vice President of Business Transformation
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