David has 20+ years’ experience across a broad range of industries in both private and public sectors including retail, construction, technology start-ups, internet commerce and transportation. He has been with the MassDOT management team since 2016 and took on the Chief Information Officer position in 2020. Prior to joining MassDOT, he was with Monster Worldwide for 12 years and lead the Global Business Technologies and Operations team as Vice President. David has a background in finance, project management and technology and holds an MBA from Salem State University.

Brian Cohen is the Vice President of the Center for Digital Government and Center Digital Education, a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government and education. Prior to joining the Center, Brian was Vice Chancellor and University CIO for the City University of New York (CUNY).
As the Vice-Chancellor and University CIO at CUNY, Brian directed the Office of Computing and Information Services (CIS), developed, and managed the enterprise IT vision, strategy and day-to-day technology operations of the University. His areas of focus included academic and business systems, cloud strategies, IT policies and procedures, Cybersecurity, project management, IT resiliency and disaster recovery, and network and telecommunications.
Brain also served in leadership roles with the City of New York. Among his many accomplishments, Brian developed the City of New York’s E-Government strategy, implemented the City’s award-winning nyc.gov website, and managed the City’s effort to address the Y2K technology challenge.

Ted Coyle is a technologist and creative with 25+ years of consulting and sales experience across commercial and government sectors, from Fortune 100 to Silicon Valley startups.
Ted was an independent consultant and expert network advisor prior to his current role as a creative free agent within Oracle’s Government Mission Modernization group. He is an early adopter of many foundational technologies including blockchain and graph and believes that Web3 is just the latest part of that foundation.
Among his many roles, he advises world renowned artists, creatives, and organizations on smart contract technology and the Web3 ecosystem.

Chris is a highly skilled technology professional bringing 20+ years of IT experience to HUB Tech. He leads a successful Managed Services and Security program which has grown to be one of the top programs in the country. HUB’s Managed Services and Security program is focused on keeping our customers Connected, Managed, and Secured. Prior to HUB Chris has spent most of his career in the enterprise space working mostly in the financial vertical where he held various roles from solution architect to technology risk manager.

Jason is the Global Field Chief Technology Officer for Prisma SASE at Palo Alto Networks. He is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation initiatives across global organizations. Jason collaborates with CIOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders on strategies aimed at enabling business outcomes.
His recent previous experience includes being the global head of Zscaler’s business consulting practice, and eight years at GE where his organization was responsible for enabling GE’s cloud journey through network and network security transformation.

Chuck Grindle, Ph.D. (Colonel, retired, U.S. Army) is an Information Scientist who joined Amazon Web Services in March of 2020 as an Executive Government Advisor and has since transitioned to lead the AWS Professional Services in the East. Chuck specializes in information security, policy and strategy. He previously served as Kentucky’s Chief Information Officer. Chuck graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and was commissioned into the Army as a Field Artillery Officer and then transitioned his career to Information Technology. In addition to holding key military positions in IT, he has taught academic courses on a variety of subjects including security issues and cyber operations. He earned his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Science and holds a second Master’s Degree from the U.S. Army War College in Strategic Studies.

Robert Groat is the EVP of Technology and Strategy for SMX. He brings 30+ years of experience in designing, developing and delivering products and services, especially in financial services, healthcare, federal, and DOD sectors.
Under Rob’s leadership, SMX has developed large-scale cloud solutions for Treasury, DOJ, DOI, U.S. Navy, Fannie Mae, Siemens, Medtronic, and more. The first use of virtualization technologies in theater (for the forward-deployed Marine Expeditionary Forces) took place under his leadership, as did the first government-wide solution hosted in the AWS cloud. 
He has co-published numerous papers on advanced optimization mathematics, holds a patent in numerical analyses methods, and was the winner of the Northern Virginia Technology Council CTO Innovator of the Year award for his pioneering work in deploying cloud solutions for the federal government.
Rob holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Computer Engineering, and several professional certifications across AWS, Google, and Microsoft.

Chris Guido is an experienced technology leader for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with knowledge of cybersecurity, cloud architecture, digital services, and software engineering. Early in his career Chris worked as IT Consultant leading large scale software implementations. In 2014 Chris joined the Office of the Comptroller as CIO where he oversaw the department’s computer operations and the Commonwealth’s enterprise financial applications. As CIO other responsibilities included high level IT strategy; identifying areas of cyber risk; as well as implementing risk strategy applications to mitigate those risks. In 2020 Chris joined the Business Enterprise System Transformation (BEST) team as a program and technology leader. The BEST Program sets out to implement a new Financial ERP software solution that will support a wide range of business functions used by all 150+ state agencies.

Todd Gustafson is President of HP Federal LLC and Head of U.S. Public Sector at HP Inc. In this role, Gustafson is responsible for managing customer and partner relationships, strategic financial plans, product and technology strategies, sales force strategy and structure, and P&L ownership within HP’s U.S. Public Sector business. As the leader of HP Federal LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HP Inc., he is focused on providing IT innovation, enabling business outcomes, and supporting the U.S. government, State and Local Government, K-12, and High-Ed across the United States.
With a 30+ year tenure at HP, Gustafson has held a variety of leadership positions in Channel Sales, Direct Sales, and ISV Marketing. Most recently, Gustafson took on the role of Vice President of U.S. End User Sales, which included the Commercial customer segment. From 2006 to 2012, he was Vice President for the Personal Systems Group (PSG) Commercial Solutions organization. Prior to that, Gustafson was the Vice President of U.S. Workstation sales.
Gustafson graduated from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. He currently resides in Massachusetts, where he continues to be an avid road cyclist and remains actively involved as leader in various community organizations.

Julia Gutiérrez is the Chief Digital Officer for the City of Boston. She is a technologist with a background in public policy and digital service delivery. Julia is passionate about using technology, data, and design to increase access to services and improve interactions between government and the people it serves. Her goal is to reimagine and deliver exceptional government services that are accessible, inclusive, and equitable.
Previously, Julia was at Massachusetts Digital Service where she worked with partner organizations across state government on the delivery of their services to constituents, most recently partnering with the new Department of Family and Medical Leave to launch Paid Family and Medical Leave for Massachusetts workers. Prior to her time at Mass Digital, Julia worked at Fundación IDEA, a Mexican public policy think tank on social development and youth development policy projects.
Born and raised on the Mexico-US border in South Texas, Julia holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University.

Robin leads a team of 200+ IT professionals, supporting the IT needs of numerous government agencies, boards, and commissions. Her goal is to deliver business value to her organization through the use of technology. Prior to her time at Administration and Finance, Robin was the Chief Information Officer for the Massachusetts State Treasury. Robin also spent many years in the private sector, serving as manager and software engineer in MathWorks, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Hewlett Packard, as well as adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University, teaching Computer Science classes.

Stephanie Helm joined the MassCyberCenter at MassTech Collaborative in September 2018. A career U.S. Navy officer, she brings to the role deep expertise developed during her career. In her role as Director of the MassCyberCenter, she is focused on enhancing conditions for economic growth through outreach to the cybersecurity ecosystem in Massachusetts while fostering cybersecurity resiliency within the Commonwealth. Stephanie has guided the efforts of the Center through the establishment of resiliency working groups, a higher education training and education working group, statewide cybersecurity awareness campaigns and outreach to key stakeholders.
Prior to joining MassCyberCenter, Stephanie served as a consultant with the Naval War College, providing subject matter expertise in the area of cyberspace, space, and information operations. Her work focused on supporting war gaming efforts in the new warfare domain of cyberspace operations.
During her 29 year Navy career, Stephanie held numerous leadership roles including as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Security Group Activity, Norfolk, VA. Additionally, she had assignments with the Chief of Naval Operations; Commander, Second Fleet/Striking Fleet Atlantic, U.S. Central Command; National Security Agency; Naval War College; and Naval Security Group commands in California, Italy, and Maine. She retired with the rank of Captain.
She received her B.A. from the University of California and her Masters from the Naval War College.

Dan Johnson heads State and Local Government customer engineering for Google, a position he has held since January of 2020. Dan and his team are responsible for working with a range of government customers to apply advances in big data and machine learning to their business problems. Prior to his current role, Dan led Financial Services customer engineering for Google working in Global Banking and Financial Markets.
Dan started his career 19 years ago at NLV Financial Corporation as a Systems Programmer. His path leading to Google in 2013 includes leadership and engineering roles at Cisco Systems, ATT and the University of Oregon.
"Through ML and AI, cloud computing will provide both the data storage and the processing power necessary to train new models tackling new problems that were previously incalculable."
Mr. Johnson holds a BA in Economics from the University of Washington and a MS in Organizational Leadership from Colorado State University.

Christine McCarthy is the Director of Operations for the Executive Office for Administration and Finance (A&F). She has 15 years of experience in state and local government. She is a self-motivated, innovative leader with a successful track record in managing large scale organizations and projects.
Christine works with senior management to develop long-term strategic and operational strategies to meet organizational objectives. Christine continues to work with A&F supported agencies in developing cost-effective solutions and communicating with internal and external stakeholders. Christine managed an IT infrastructure rollout and a cloud migration of email and data. This project was in response to the COVID pandemic to allow remote work by Commonwealth employees.
Christine is a graduate of Northeastern University. She completed the Suffolk University Moakley Center for Public Administration and Massachusetts Municipal Associations Certificate Program where she received a Certificate in Local Government Leadership and Management and a 2021 recipient of the Manuel Carballo Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service for her work on the Future of Work Initiative.

Jeff McCue was appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer for the Commonwealth on October 21, 2019.
Jeff’s role as leader of the Human Resources Division (HRD) includes overseeing a wide range of Human Resource functions to 42,000 Executive Branch employees. Working with the HRD team, his responsibilities include administering collective bargaining contracts with thirteen unions; recruiting, development and retention for new employees; facilitating an inclusive work environment; administering workers compensation for over 100,000 Commonwealth employees; and many other integral functions. Jeff is committed to transforming how HRD can better enable agencies and employees to serve the constituents of Massachusetts.
Prior to joining HRD, Jeff served as the Commissioner at the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) where he guided the integration of DTA’s public assistance programs with the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. In doing so, the DTA has expanded employment and training services for adults, dislocated workers and youth.
Over the course of 39 years, Jeff has held a multitude of senior level positions in state government, including leading HR for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and UMass Boston. Jeff has shown a passion for innovative approaches for culture change in each of the leadership positions he’s held.

Monica is a Managing Director and leads Deloitte Global Public Sector AI & Data Operations practice. The practice focuses on helping federal agencies, state and local governments, and higher education institutions enhance their mission effectiveness through data- and AI-powered transformations.
Monica is a thought-leader with close to 25 years of experience in helping government agencies on their data and analytics journey. She engages with clients across Federal, State and Local government to help organizations tie together business strategy and technology to drive their digital transformation and data strategy. Prior to Deloitte, Monica was the Vice President of Public Sector at both ThoughtSpot and Qlik, both software analytic companies.

Mr. Montgomery is a strategist and executive advisor at VMware. Chris helps public sector organizations align their mission objectives with a supporting IT Strategy that enables digital transformation. He is recognized in the industry as a cyber security expert and thought leader for organizational change management associated with technology modernization.

For over a decade Charlie was as a Member of the New York State Assembly, where he served as the
Ranking Member of the Insurance Committee and a member of the Ways & Means, Banks and Social Services Committees.
He also was the elected Chairman of the Nassau County Board of Assessors and Nassau County Real Property Tax Director.
Charlie additionally served for almost a dozen years as Director of Government Relations & External Affairs for the New York State Department of Transportation’s New York City Region.
He was a lawyer/lobbyist in both Albany and New York City and then formed his own consulting firm.
He is a graduate of Duke University and Fordham University School of Law.

Vince Pastore is the Director for the State, Local and Education division at VMware. During the Pandemic, Vince worked directly with the New York State Governor’s Chamber responsible for delivering vital services by transforming the customer experience for unemployment, tax, Covid response, motor vehicles, health and human services, and first responders.
While working with NY State and New York City, Vince led a VMware team that assisted NYC to rapidly deploy remote mobile workspace solutions that were leveraged to enable The City employees to continue to provide critical services, during the pandemic. Vince has been leading customer experience and engagement transformation within the technology segment for over 30 years, spanning BBN Technologies, Microsoft, Infosys, Verizon, and VMware. Notably, Vince was instrumental in helping launch the first online trading, banking, and billing fulfillment services, while at BBN Technologies and Microsoft. During his 15 years at Microsoft, Vince was part of the commercial response taskforce helping NYC respond to Y2K. He also mobilized teams to help assist NYC remediate and restore critical network and technology services during 9/11/2001. Vince was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Vince has served as a presenter and participant at the NY State and City Digital summit.

Deborah is an accomplished C-level influencer, with a broad range of experience in government, policy, cybersecurity, privacy and information technology. She is an experienced and highly respected thought leader who has held executive roles for over two decades. She recently retired from her position as New York state’s chief information security officer (CISO) after over 35 years of public service.
In that role, as part of New York state’s information technology transformation and consolidation initiative, she helped redesign how the state protects its data. As state CISO, she directed the state’s comprehensive cybersecurity governance, risk management and compliance program, providing strategic leadership and vision and assuring business-aligned, risk-based investments that maximized business opportunity and minimized cybersecurity risk. She also directed the NYS Cyber Command Center, hotline, procedures for reporting and response to cyberthreats and digital forensics.
She holds multiple industry certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC); SANS Strategic Planning, Policy and Leadership (GSTRT) Global Information Assurance Certification; and Project Management Institute certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Nicholas Speece is the technical leader for the Snowflake Federal team. His vast experience of more than 20 years covers the areas of cyber security, enterprise data center hardware and software, software development, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. He is a ten-year veteran of the United States Air Force and a dedicated technologist.

As Undersecretary of Community Development in the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, Ashley Stolba works to advance the Baker-Polito Administration’s agenda to encourage growth and vitality in cities and towns and foster economic opportunities for residents.
Undersecretary Stolba leads the team that manages numerous community grant programs spanning state agencies and quasi-public organizations and awarding funds for public infrastructure projects, local capacity building, and planning for future growth. As the chief liaison between the Executive Office and municipalities, Stolba also focuses on issues such as expanding broadband and internet access to Massachusetts residents, protecting and expanding missions, jobs, and investments at Massachusetts military installations, and, alongside the Lieutenant Governor as Vice Chair of the Seaport Economic Council, helping coastal communities develop and improve local assets to facilitate economic development.
Prior to joining the Baker-Polito Administration, Stolba was Chief of Staff at the Harvard Allston Land Company, the entity charged with managing the development of Harvard University’s 36-acre Enterprise Research Campus. She has also held roles as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Associate Counsel at the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and Policy Analyst for House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones.
A native of Mashpee, MA, she received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Miami and her juris doctor from Suffolk University Law School.

Renee Tarun is Deputy CISO at Fortinet. She is focused on enterprise security, compliance and governance, and product security. She is also author to the book, Fight Fire with Fire: Proactive Cybersecurity Strategies for Today's Leaders.
Renee joined Fortinet as the Vice President, Information Security in early 2017. Immediately prior to joining Fortinet, she served as Special Assistant to the Director, National Security Agency (NSA), for Cyber and Director of NSA’s Cyber Task Force, in which she advanced NSA’s execution of its cybersecurity and cyber-related missions by acquiring, investing, and overseeing resources; defining and integrating mission capabilities; and shaping agency strategy and national level policy.
As the Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Information Assurance Directorate at NSA, her focus areas included strategy, planning, integration, and relationship management, in cybersecurity and related disciplines across NSA and the Department of Defense (DoD).
Renee also served as Senior Cyber Strategist in a joint DoD-DHS organization which orchestrated joint efforts in operational planning, policy, and strategy, for cyber issues across the US Government.
She was the Portfolio Lead for the Protect Data and Networks and Operational Resiliency Portfolios for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information and Identity Assurance. Previous assignments include computer scientist, information technologist, and a variety of policy, programs, and resource jobs.
Renee is also a board member for the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering, creating synergy between the school and the professional community by addressing workforce development demands, industry expectations, and employment trends.

Matt Thibault leads the cybersecurity business for AT&T’s Public Sector, specifically focused on securing the missions of State, Local, and Education (SLED) customers across America. Entering the industry as a cybersecurity solutions architect and serving as Chief of Staff for the Public Sector organization, Matt brings together deep technical knowledge with an understanding of the business and customer landscape to own and direct the relationship with key leadership across the Federal and SLED markets.

Curt Wood serves as the Cabinet Secretary and Commonwealth’s Chief Information Officer, overseeing the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS), whose mission is to provide secure and quality digital information, services, and tools  to constituents and service providers when and where they need them. Governor Baker created EOTSS, formerly MassIT, in 2017 to standardize, centralize, and secure infrastructure and core services.
Before joining EOTSS, Secretary Wood served in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) as the Undersecretary for Forensic Science and Technology and as Chief Information Officer. At EOPSS, Mr. Wood was responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight to various EOPSS departments, including the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the State Crime Laboratory, the Office of Technology and Information Services, the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services, and the State 911 Department.
Secretary Wood has an established track record of public sector innovation, especially in using technology to improve service delivery. During his tenure at EOPSS, he directed the successful transition from the Commonwealth’s legacy E-9-1-1 system to the more advanced and robust Next Generation 9-1-1 platform, which enhanced public safety’s response to emergency calls for service. He also oversaw the multi-million dollar modernization of the state’s mission critical criminal justice information systems and services.
Prior to his public safety role, Secretary Wood worked in the private sector as a senior business and technology consultant, where he led large public safety and justice information technology engagements across the United States. He has held several national Justice Information Sharing leadership roles, including sitting on the Board of Directors of the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS).
Secretary Wood received his master’s in Criminal Justice Administration from Anna Maria College and a bachelor’s in Communications from Salem State College.