Advisory Board
Jim Williams
Mr. Williams has 40 plus years of successful public and private sector experience, including 30 years in the US Federal Government, with over 18 years as a federal senior executive. He was the U.S. General Services Administration’s Acting Administrator under President George W. Bush and GSA’s first Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner. He led the Presidential Transition for GSA in 2008-2009. Mr. Williams was also the first Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT Program, which was successfully implemented at DHS to track the entry of foreign visitors with biometrics after 9/11. Earlier, Jim was the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) leader of their Procurement and Program Management organizations, and co-chair of their Shared Services Design Team. He was the federal government’s computer procurement expert for the US-Japan 1990 Supercomputer Procurement and the US-Japan 1992 Computer Procurement Trade Agreements. He is the Co-Chair of the Chief Acquisition Officer’s Council at the Partnership for Public Service and he has held several other leadership positions for private sector industry associations. He has received numerous awards, including two Presidential Rank Awards and four Federal Computer Week FED100 Awards. He has an MBA from The George Washington University and a B.S. in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dave McClure, Ph. D.
Dave McClure has over 40 years of distinguished leadership experience in government technology and management reform.
Before retiring at the end of 2022, Dave served as Principal Director for Technology Strategy and Consulting at Accenture Federal Services where he led the AFS CIO Leadership Agenda, helping to advance CIO modernization strategies in the federal market. He advised a wide range of civilian and defense clients on technology-modernization strategies and secure digital-transformation projects grounded in cloud computing. He advised agency IT and non-IT leaders on essential strategies, approaches, and investments designed to improve measurable mission performance outcomes.
James Manzelmann
RADM/Mr. James Manzelmann has fifty years of extensive experience in a blended three track career including 33 years as a United States Navy Officer Active/Reserve, 27 years as a licensed professional commercial Architect in the private sector, and 20 years in the federal government as a senior executive for the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. His significant leadership assignments include Executive Officer second in command of Fleet Intelligence Center Pacific, Reserve Intelligence Area Commander, Area 4, San Diego, California, Commander, Naval Reserve Intelligence Command, Division President Phoenix, Arizona for the Benham Group Architecture Engineering firm, Vice President for Federal Programs CRSS/Jacobs Engineering Irvine, California, Facility Functional Manager General Defense Intelligence Program, Deputy Director for Mission Services Defense Intelligence Agency, and Associate Deputy Director for Facilities and Logistics Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Examples of notable programs and projects under his leadership include the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Headquarters and Intermodal, the Pasadena Blue Line, the expansion of Disneyland Anaheim, California called The California Adventure, the expansion of the Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters Bolling AFB, the Intelligence Community Campus Reston Virginia, and the Intelligence Community Campus Bethesda, Maryland. Mr. Manzelmann’s civilian award recognition includes Defense Intelligence Agency’s Diversity Management Award, two Meritorious Presidential Rank Awards 2006 & 2011, De Fleury Silver Medal Corps of Engineers 2018, and Top Federal 100 2019. RADM Manzelmann’s military awards include the Navy and Marine Corp Distinguished Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, three Navy Commendation Medals, two Navy Achievement Medals, and the Vietnam Service Medal.
Tim Rund
During his time with the federal government, Mr Rund successfully led several shared services enterprises. Upon retirement, Mr Rund joined the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as their first Director of Shared Services Strategy. While at CSC Mr. Rund was a member of a CIO Council-sponsored Subcommittee on IT Shared Services. Later, Mr. Rund collaborated with the Partnership for Public Service (PPS) in the standup of a federal government-focused “Shared Services Round Table” and later, in the establishment of the “ODNI IC Shared Services Round Table”. While at Microsoft Mr Rund was an early supporter and an inaugural Board Member of the Shared Services Leadership Coalition (SSLC). He has been actively engaged in the Shared Services Forum series sponsored by SSLC, the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and the Senior Executives Association (SEA); the annual Shared Services Summit in collaboration with SSLC and ACT-IAC; the GWU / SSLC modules on Shared Services and the establishment of a CHCO-focused Working Forward Forum. Mr Rund is currently an Independent Advisor to The Clearing for Public Sector Strategy and Shared Services. Mr Rund earned both his BS and MS degrees from The George Washington University. He is a 2015 recipient of the Federal Computer Weekly’s FED-100 award for his work in support of advancing the adoption of shared services across the federal government.
Dave Mader
Dave Mader is a distinguished shared services leader with extensive experience in government and industry. He previously served as chief strategy officer for the civilian sector for Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Government & Public Services practice. In his role, he collaborated with numerous agencies to implement the President’s Management Agenda and reform plans as well as agency-wide shared services strategies. Dave has also developed and driven agency strategies to help reduce improper payments for government distribution programs. With more than 40 years of government and consulting experience, Dave regularly consults with House and Senate staff and members to help explore legislative remedies for top issues. Earlier in his career, Dave served as Controller of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and also held numerous positions with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where he led a major shared services transformation in the 1990s. Dave is the recipient of both the Distinguished and Meritorious Presidential Rank awards, the Treasury Secretary’s Honor award, and is a Fellow and past board member of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 2018, he was recognized by the Association of Government Accountants with the Distinguished Federal Leadership award for spearheading transformational work in shared services. He is a frequent speaker and author of strategic government issues.
Emily W. Murphy
Emily W. Murphy is a leading expert in government contracting and the business of government. Throughout her career, Emily has held multiple leadership roles in the federal government, including serving as Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration. Currently, she is a Senior Fellow with the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University Business School, where she provides thought leadership and research on procurement issues. Additionally, she consults with government contractors through her company, Government Procurement Strategies, LLC. She serves on the Boards of Advisors for SkillStorm and Vita Inclinata and is a Board Advisor to Fortress Information Security. Emily is an independent director for Medical Properties Trust, a publicly traded REIT.
Emily served as the GSA Administrator from 2017 to 2021, leading a workforce of more than 11,000 federal employees, and overseeing 371 million square feet of office space and $75 billion in annual contracts. As Administrator, Emily increased GSA’s sales by 36%, from $55 billion to $75 billion, increased retained earnings by $8.2 billion, and saved customer agencies $21.6 billion. She led GSA through both the longest government shutdown in history and the COVID pandemic, each of which posed substantial challenges for federal buildings, land ports of entry, and court houses. Under her leadership, GSA had the highest customer, vendor, and employee satisfaction scores in the history of the agency.
Prior to being confirmed as Administrator, Emily served as the Senior Advisor at GSA and oversaw the merger of the Federal Acquisition Service and the Technology Transformation Service. During the administration of President George W. Bush, Emily was appointed as GSA’s first Chief Acquisition Officer from 2005 to 2007. In that role, she was responsible for more than $40 billion in acquisition programs. Emily also served at the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2004 to 2005 as the Senior Advisor for Government Contracting and Business Development, and as Acting Associate Administrator for Government Contracting.
In addition to her seven years of senior roles in the Executive Branch, Emily spent nine years serving in various procurement policy and leadership roles for the House of Representatives. She served as Counsel and Professional Staff Member to the Committee on Armed Services, negotiating acquisition and industrial base provisions in the annual defense authorization bill. She also held Senior Counsel and Policy Director roles for the Committee on Small Business from 2011-2016, where she directed the legislative and oversight agenda of the Committee. Emily previously worked for the Committee from 1997-2000, focusing on government contracts matters, disaster loan policy, and telecommunications issues. During her tenure with Congress, Emily drafted numerous contracting reform provisions that ultimately became law.
In the private sector, Emily was the General Counsel and Vice President for Operations for TerreStar National Services Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Networks, which operated integrated satellite and terrestrial telecommunications systems. She also practiced government contracts law with Wiley LLC from 2001 to 2003.
Emily is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Smith College. She is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, the Economic Club of Washington DC, and the Chief Executives Organization.
Mark Forman
Mark Forman is a distinguished IT executive and thought leader with over three decades of experience leading technology modernization initiatives in industry and government. As an industry executive with consulting firms IBM, Unisys and KPMG, Mark has led advisory and service delivery teams for governments worldwide. As the first Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology in the US Office of Management and Budget (also known as the first Federal CIO), he spearheaded groundbreaking reforms leveraging modernization and commercial best practices. He oversaw over $80 Billion in Federal IT spending, led the Federal CIO Council, and created and managed implementation of the Federal E-Government Strategy comprising twenty-five multi-agency Presidential initiatives that enhanced interactions between the Federal Government and individuals, businesses, and state governments. For these contributions he was awarded the prestigious Eagle Award presented to the single most consequential Federal IT leader by Federal Computer Week in 2003. Earlier in his career, Mark worked on innovative government reforms to bring commercial practices and technology into government as a member of the staff of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. Highly respected for his thought leadership, Mark has delivered over 150 speeches worldwide and frequently appears in media as a trusted voice on government modernization and public policy. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the Ohio State University.
Glenn Davidson
Glenn is a senior-level executive with over 40 years of experience driving major change initiatives – from the inside, an organizational executive, and as a consultant – across the public sector, including Federal, state and local governments; higher education institutions; NGOs and multi-lateral agencies; and not-for-profits. He is best known for his expertise in human capital matters, including talent acquisition, enablement, development, and management.
Until his recent retirement, Glenn led Deloitte’s workforce development practice, helping federal, state and local governments retool and optimize their workforce development programs; better engage with commercial employers, educational institutions and other stakeholders in the ecosystem; improve their labor participation rates, skill and reskill job seekers; and help employers recruit and retain employees. Among his clients were Virginia’s Secretary of Labor and the Commissioner of Virginia Works.
Immediately prior to joining Deloitte, Glenn served as a Presidential Executive Fellow and Executive Director of Enterprise Services for the US Department of Commerce where he was responsible for planning, designing, building and running the first cabinet department-level, multi-function, shared services operations in the Federal Government.
Earlier in his career, Glenn worked in Federal and state government. He was a legislative aide to Ohio Congressman Ronald M. Mottl in the 1980s. He also served as chief of staff to Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder in the 1990s.
Glenn is a graduate of the American University from which he holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from the George Washington University. He serves as an advisory board member of the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, a member of GO Virginia’s Region 7 Council, and a Board of Directors member of the Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation.
Suzette Kent
Suzette Kent is a global business transformation executive. She served as the Federal Chief Information Officer for the United States from 2018 until July of 2020. Her career has included leadership roles ranging from partner at Accenture and EY to managing director at JP Morgan. She currently leads her own advisory business through which she continues strategic transformation work with clients around the world, across industries and in the public and private sectors. Her career has always centered on technology transformation, cybersecurity, digital enablement, workforce development and ways that technology can be leveraged to solve challenges. Suzette is a strategic advisor to many companies, national security firms, and multiple emerging AI companies. Suzette also serves on the Boards of a bank, a public university, and develops emerging technology educational content for public company boards.
Robert Shea
Robert Shea is Chief Executive Officer of GovNavigators. Before launching GovNavigators, Robert was National Managing Principal, Public Policy, at Grant Thornton. Robert has a more than 25 year history of working to improve government performance. He recently served on the Commission for Evidence-based Policymaking. Robert served as associate director for the U. S. Office of Management and Budget, as senior management counsel for the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and, before that, as legislative director for Congressman Pete Sessions. He also served on the staff of House Committee on Government Reform. He has a J.D. from South Texas College of Law and a B.A. from Connecticut College. He recently joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center.