Justin Ackerman is the Administrator of the Ohio Digital Academy and IT Workforce Initiatives for CyberOhio. Previously, he was a Human Resources Manager for the state of Ohio overseeing IT acquisition & management and created the statewide IT Apprenticeship Program.
As a first-generation college graduate, he holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Capital University in Leadership & Management and Spanish and a Master of Human Resources Management degree from the Ohio State University.

Jonathan Carroll is the Midwest Regional Executive for State Government Strategy at T-Mobile. Before taking on this role, he served as a four-term State Representative in the Illinois General Assembly from 2017-2024. While in the General Assembly, Jonathan secured approximately $10M in capital funding for community infrastructure, catalyzing substantial progress and elevating the district's infrastructure. His legislative record includes making Illinois a leader in food allergy safety & training, improving education, humanely treating animals and a bipartisan universal 72-hour waiting period for all gun purchases. During his time in the legislature, he would regularly work with both sides of the aisle for the betterment of the state.
Jonathan was involved on several key committees including Executive, General Appropriations, Cybersecurity, Consumer Protection, Police and Fire, Townships & Counties, Cities & Villages, Insurance, Public Utilities and Gaming.
Before entering politics, Jonathan was a Special Education teacher serving children with learning and social/emotional disorders. After leaving the classroom, Jonathan founded Carroll Educational Group and IEP Experts supporting young learners driven by innovative strategies and a proactive approach to addressing challenges. Jonathan's commitment to educational support services, including specialized offerings in Special Education advocacy and consulting, showcases his deep sense of responsibility to the community.
Jonathan attended DePaul University earning an undergraduate degree in Communication and a Master of Arts from Northeastern Illinois University in Education. Away from work, Jonathan enjoys spending time with his two children and Cavapoo Theo, watching sports (especially the Cubs and Bears), cooking and fishing.

Destiny joined the State of Ohio, Department of Administrative Services, State Human Resources Division in 2021 as a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant before moving into the role of State Talent Acquisition Manager in 2023. Prior to serving Ohioans, she worked in HR/Talent Acquisition at Nationwide Children’s Hospital for six years recruiting for a wide range of positions. Destiny is a Recruiter Academy Certified Recruiter and Certified Lean Practitioner. During her undergrad, Destiny attended Muskingum University where she dually received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Public Health. She has also received her MBA in Human Resource Management from Lousisana State University.

Holly Drake was appointed State of Ohio Chief Information Security Officer in February 2023 and brings extensive experience managing cybersecurity and privacy teams in complex organizations. As CISO, she leads the Office of Information Security and Privacy that supports the productivity, innovation, and organizational objectives of the state to provide secure services to Ohio citizens.
Drake was most recently Deputy Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor for CyberOhio within the office of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. As a member of the CyberOhio team, she built cybersecurity governance and technical maturity to protect Ohioans and their state government from today's complex challenges.  
Her information governance and oversight career initially spanned senior roles in private sector organizations ranging from mid-market to Fortune 50 in size where she drove the development of privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance initiatives. Prior joining to the State of Ohio, Drake built a bespoke privacy program for The Ohio State University, one of the largest educational institutions in the United States. She also led the cybersecurity governance teams, with responsibility for policy, cybersecurity control framework, risk assessment, disaster recovery, and data governance. 
In either the public or private sectors, her mission is to always bring a pragmatic, collaborative approach to solving business and compliance challenges by balancing the uses of information while keeping core privacy and cybersecurity principles at the fore. 
A graduate of The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Capital University, Drake also maintains CIPP, CIPT, CISSP, and CISA certifications. She currently serves several industry initiatives while outside of work, she is a volunteer and advocate for literacy initiatives in her community.

Adam Frumkin is a leader with experience in developing, directing, and executing business transformation and strategies. He has an established record collaborating with other executives to bring clarity to strategic business decisions and implementing technology to transform business processes.
He has focused experience in strategic planning, cultural & organizational development and emotional intelligence, process reengineering, enterprise system implementations, cybersecurity and disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
Council Chair to the PTI Executive Committee of the City/County CIO Leadership Council and Vice Chair for the NACo IT Standing Committee. Additionally, named as one of the 2023 Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers by Government Technology and StateScoop – Local Smart County Executive of the Year 2021 and the Columbus Business First – BizTech Executive of the Year 2021.
He is an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University, and for the PTI Certified Government Chief Information Officer (CGCIO) through Rutgers University.

James Hawk has been in the Networking Industry for 28 years with over 2 decades of his career leading Sales & Systems Engineering Teams & Organizations both within the US and Globally. Prior to joining Cradlepoint in April of 2019 as the North America Field Sales Engineering Leader, James led Juniper Networks’ Global Corporate Systems Engineering Organization.

Kurt McDowell has been employed by the Ohio Legislative Information Systems (LIS) since 1997. Kurt has held multiple positions at LIS from Intern, Network Engineer, Sr. Network Engineer, Engineering Group Manager and finally his current position, Director. LIS is a non-partisan agency established to facilitate the legislative process. LIS strives to provide the very highest quality professional information technology services through robust, reliable, cost-effective systems that meet the needs of the legislative agencies they support. Kurt received a BA in CIS from The Ohio State University and a MBA from Ashland University.

Bob Nevins is the Industry Executive Director for Health and Human Service for Oracle Government and Education. Bob has wide background of experience in the health and human services market both in the private and public sector. Bob spent over 20 years in a variety of senior leadership roles in Massachusetts state government. He was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Massachusetts Health Connector.
Other senior roles have included the Director of Mass.gov, where he oversaw the development of the statewide portal and ambitious eGovernment initiatives. He also served as the Deputy Commissioner for the MA Department of Revenue where he drove new and emerging technologies in the child support enforcement and tax administration programs. Bob began his career in government with the MA child welfare agency.

Born in Columbus and raised in Central Ohio, Sam Orth has spent the last 41 years helping government and education use technology to create value for the citizens of Ohio. He joined Mayor Ginther’s team as Chief Technology Officer and Director of Technology on July 3, 2016.
His focus at the city has been helping the Mayor, Cabinet and city modernize how IT is used to serve the citizens of Columbus and the region. His first major initiative was partnering with Public Safety to adopt the city’s first body-warn camera program. Other major projects have included creation of the city’s first Data Analytics and Integration program, modernization of the city’s data centers and infrastructure, adoption of a new 311 platform, and expanding technology access for city employees to enable telework during the pandemic.
He is currently working with the Public Safety to develop the city's Real-Time Crime Center program and and is working with the Smart Columbus and the Digital Equity Coalition to address the Digital Divide in Columbus and the region.
Prior to serving as the CTO for Columbus he served as the CTO for the Management Council of the Ohio Education Computer Network, and State Chief Information Officer for the State of Ohio. While State CIO he worked with IT leaders across government to modernize state IT operations by fostering inter-agency collaboration, IT consolidation and shared services. While at the state, he chaired the Ohio Broadband Council and Multi-Agency Radio Communication steering committee and served on the OARNet Governing Board.
From 1997 to 2004, Sam served as the Executive Director of the Ohio SchoolNet Commission where his team implemented nearly $1B in educational technology programs - including expanding the capacity of broadband connectivity for Ohio’s schools and placing over 600,000 computers in Ohio’s classrooms. While at SchoolNet, he was a founding partner with OARNet to fund and light what was then known as the Third Frontier Network. TFN grew to become what we know as the Broadband Ohio OarNet network today.
Before joining state government in 1996, he spent 14 years in the private sector IT where he owned his own consulting company, worked for central Ohio computer resellers and served as a Systems Engineer and Market Development Executive for Apple Computer. His private sector career was focused extensively on K-12 and government.
He is passionate about information technology’s role in serving government and education, and is well known for his collaborative, team-oriented, citizen-focused approach.

Natalie Sisto is a Managing Director at Accenture and serves as the Global Solution Lead for Talent and Workforce Transformation in Public Service. She is a mission-inspired and results-driven leader with 16 years of strategy, management, and digital consulting experience. Natalie is passionate about helping people, organizations, and communities unlock their value and ability to contribute. She serves higher education, health, nonprofit and government organizations, with an emphasis on strategy development, organizational design, and talent management. In addition, she has worked with Fortune 100 companies in retail, insurance, banking, healthcare and communications to develop talent strategies and higher education partnerships. In Ohio, Natalie has helped advance our state’s economic development agenda and orchestrated growth of our advanced manufacturing workforce (semiconductor, EV, etc.). Based in the Columbus, OH, office, she leads Accenture’s Corporate Citizenship engagement and serves as a Trustee on the Board of Alvis and on the Community Board of COSI. Natalie received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Mark began service as Chief Information Officer at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in July of 2021. The department is responsible for supporting Ohio’s workforce and unemployment programs, along with the programs for cash assistance, food assistance, and child support. The agency is also responsible for the end-point support of 17,000 users in 180 county departments, administering the above statewide programs.
Prior to joining JFS, Mark served as the Chief Operating Officer at OIT in the Ohio Department of Administrative Services. Over the course of a 30+ year career in state service, he has also held leadership positions at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and Ohio Office of Budget and Management.
Mark lives in central Ohio, is a graduate of Franklin University.

As Chief of Infrastructure Services, Jeff Swan leads the Infrastructure Services Division of the DAS Office of Information Technology.
Jeff oversees data center operations, which includes the Network, Storage, Servers, Mainframe, Cloud Brokerage and Engagement, Office 365, Identity Management, Customer Service Center, Business Relationship Management, ServiceNow, and Desktop Services teams. Jeff’s focus is on customer engagement and delivering service, support, and solutions to state agencies. He provides leadership and guidance for critical operations and initiatives as well as strategies for rate optimization, disaster recovery, and the Cloud Smart platform.
Prior to being appointed Chief of Infrastructure Services in November 2023, Jeff served as the Chief Information Officer for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for nearly 4 years. Before working at DNR, he was at DAS, leading the Servers and Cloud teams for 6 years. Prior to that, he was the Network Services Supervisor at the Ohio Department of Health, where he began his state service in 1996 after a private-sector career.
Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Franklin University.