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Recent History of CIOS Leaving Federal Agencies
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CMS
Tony Trenkle, the chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, left after seven years to become IBM's chief health information officer for its federal business. He was replaced by Dave Nelson, CMS' director of the Office of Enterprise Management. Read more -
SBA
Chase Garwood left the Small Business Association after about 1 year there and returned to the Homeland Security Department, where he spent the first 11 years of his post-Army career. He was succeeded by Renee Macklin, who was the acting CIO at the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration. Read more. -
GSA
Casey Coleman stepped down as GSA's CIO after seven years on the job to join AT&T Government Solutions. Deputy CIO Sonny Hashmi became the acting CIO upon Coleman's departure. Read more. -
GSA
Dave McClure stepped down as the General Service Administration's associate administrator of GSA's Office of Citzen Services and Innovative Technologies after five years. He joined the Veris Group as its chief strategist. Phaedra Chrousos was named as McClure's replacement at GSA. Read more. -
USAID
Jerry Horton stepped down as the CIO at the U.S. Agency for International Development after four years on the job. He left to take a position in the State Department's CIO office. Jay Mahanand became the acting CIO on Horton's departure. Read more. -
MACPAC
Mathew Chase left the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission after three years to become a vice president at Avalere. Jim Boissonnault succeeded Chase at MACPAC. Read more. -
Commerce
Simon Szykman stepped down as the Commerce Department chief information officer to become the CTO of Attain's federal services division. Szykman spent seven years as a federal CIO -- four at Commerce and three at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Steve Cooper, a former Homeland Security Department and Federal Aviation Administration CIO, succeeded Szykman. Read more. -
NARA
Mike Wash stepped down after three years as chief information officer at the National Archives and Records Administration to become the chief technology officer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Swarnali Haldarm, the former deputy CIO at NARA, replaced Wash. -
ICE
Thomas Michelli, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief information officer, stepped down after two years to become the deputy CIO for the Coast Guard. Kevin Kern succeeded Michelli at ICE. Read more. -
NSA
Gen. Keith Alexander stepped down as the head of the National Security Agency after nine years on the job to take a position at IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. Adm. Mike Rogers, head of the Navy's Cyber Command and a former intelligence director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeded Alexander at NSA. Read more. -
Interior
Interior Department Chief Information Officer Bernie Mazer stepped down after four years to become a senior adviser in the Interior IG Office. He was succeeded by Sylvia Burns, who was the acting associate deputy CIO for service planning and management. Read more. -
DoD
Rob Carey, the Defense Department's principal deputy chief information officer, left DoD after four years in the post to become the vice president and general manager of public sector cybersecurity at CSC. Read more. -
NOAA
Joe Klimavicz left the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after spending more than seven years as its CIO and director of high performance computing and communications to become the Justice Department's new CIO. Read more. -
DoD
Teri Takai, the Defense Department's chief information officer, left her post after serving as DoD's top information technology policy official for 3-1/2 years. She went on to join the board of directors for FirstNet. Read more. -
Air Force
Lt. Gen. Michael Basla stepped down after two years as the Air Force's chief information officer to retire. Lt. Gen. Bill Bender, the number two DoD official in the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq in Baghdad, was tapped as Basla's replacement. Read more. -
Treasury
Robyn East retired as the Treasury Department's chief information officer after three years. Sonny Bhagowalia, a former technology executive for the Hawaii state government, was named East's successor at the Treasury in October. Read more. -
Fed CTO
Todd Park stepped down after two years as the federal Chief Technology Officer to recruit talent from Silicon Valley for the Obama administration. Megan Smith, vice president at Google, was named in September as Park's replacement. Read more. -
Energy
Bob Brese stepped down as the Energy Department's chief information officer after four years to take a private sector job at Gartner, where he serves as an adviser for IT Executives and CIO Signature programs. Read More. -
Fed CIO
Steven VanRoekel stepped down as the federal Chief Information Officer in September to head up the administration's response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa as the U.S. Agency for International Development's chief innovation officer. VanRoekel served as the federal CIO for three years. Read more. -
DIA
Grant Schneider, the Defense Intelligence Agency's chief information officer, left that job after seven years to become the senior cyber adviser in the Office of Management and Budget's E-Gov organization. Janice Glover-Jones, the deputy CIO for DIA, will be the acting CIO until a new one is named. Read more. -
ICE
Kevin Kern stepped down as the CIO of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement directorate at the Homeland Security Department after only four months on the job. He joined Greenwich Associates to become the executive vice president and chief technology officer for operations & technology at First Data. Read more. -
RAT Board
Shawn Kingsberry, the CIO at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, left that job after five years to take a private-sector job at TASC as the director of cloud services. Read more. -
Army
Mike Krieger, who was the deputy Army chief information officer/G6 for six years, retired. He was replaced by Gary Wang. Read more.
