About the Board
Members serve to provide funding recommendations and monitor progress and performance of approved modernization projects.
The TMF Board is made up of 7 voting members:
- The Administrator of the Office of E-Government (Federal Chief Information Officer)
- A senior official from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) with technical expertise in information technology development
- A member of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- Four employees of the Federal Government primarily having technical expertise in information technology development, financial management, cybersecurity and privacy, and acquisition
Additionally, alternate board members with expertise in information technology, cybersecurity, and acquisition provide added insight and can stand in as a voting board member.
Voting Board members
Chair - permanent member
Clare Martorana, Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget
Throughout her career, Clare Martorana worked to improve and simplify the digital experiences people have when interacting with businesses and government. Martorana most recently served as Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, where for the past two years she stabilized and secured agency operations to deliver better digital-first services for the Federal workforce. Martorana began her public service career as a member of the U.S. Digital Service team at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, establishing the agency’s enterprise-wide Digital Modernization effort to deliver for veterans the 21st-century digital experience they deserve. Prior to joining the government, Martorana was President at Everyday Health and Senior Vice President and General Manager and editor-at-large at WebMD.
Senior Tech Official from GSA - permanent member
David A. Shive, Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration
David A. Shive is the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration. Mr. Shive oversees the GSA IT organization, and is responsible for information technology operations and ensuring alignment with agency and administration strategic objectives and priorities. He joined the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief Information Officer in November 2012. Concurrent to his role as CIO, David served as the Acting Commissioner of the newly formed Technology Transformation Service from July - November 2016. Prior to being named CIO, he was the Director of the Office of Enterprise Infrastructure, responsible for the enterprise information technology infrastructure platforms and capability that support the GSA business enterprise. He was also the Acting Director of HR and FM Systems for the GSA CFO and CPO offices. Prior to joining GSA, he served in the District of Columbia government as a Chief Information Officer. In this role, Mr. Shive had executive responsibility for agency IT operations including financial systems, security and privacy programs, internal controls and compliance, strategic planning, enterprise architecture and performance management and measurement programs and directed the transformation of enterprise systems and processes, to public/private cloud hybrid.
Cybersecurity Official from DHS - term member
Chris Butera, Senior Technical Director for Cybersecurity Division, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Chris Butera is the Senior Technical Director for the Cybersecurity Division (CSD) of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, Mr. Butera is focused on advancing CISA’s cyber capabilities and services, leading CISA’s zero trust efforts, prioritization of cyber R&D work, and leading strategic work in the ICS and OT space. Mr. Butera brings a wealth of experience to his role with over 20 years in various cybersecurity and IT leadership positions in Federal and local government as well as the private sector. Throughout his Federal career, Mr. Butera has led much of the CISA’s cyber defense operations including the government’s response to the most significant cybersecurity incidents facing the United States dating back to 2014. Prior to this role Mr. Butera briefly served as the Acting Deputy Executive Assistant Director for the Cybersecurity Division during the 2021 presidential administration transition. Previous roles at CISA include Associate Director of Threat Hunting, Deputy Director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), and Chief of the NCCIC Hunt and Incident Response Team. Mr. Butera’s interests lie in analyzing new forensic artifacts, developing new analytical tools, vulnerability research, and emerging technologies.
Term Board members
Sheena Burrell, Chief Information Officer, National Archives and Records Administration
For the past 20 years, Sheena Burrell has worked within Chief Information Officer (CIO) organizations in multiple Federal agencies as a change agent for greater automation and modernization of Information Technology, with the goal to decrease the Federal Government’s technical debt. Sheena Burrell became the CIO for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in August 2022, where she creates systems and tools that allow customers to permanently preserve digitized, as well as “born” digital, information to assist in discovering NARA’s holdings. Prior to becoming CIO, Ms. Burrell served for two years as NARA’s Deputy CIO and three years as the CIO’s Business Manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Prior to this, Ms. Burrell served 15 years at the Social Security Administration in a number of capacities.
Harrison Smith, Acquisition Innovation Advocate, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Harrison Smith serves as the Acquisition Innovation Advocate with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, supporting the digitalization and acquisition portfolios of the organization. Previously, he was the Director of Enterprise Digitalization for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as well as the Deputy Chief Procurement Officer within the IRS, where he was responsible for supporting all acquisition programs and contractual commitments for equipment, supplies, and services for IRS and Treasury Departmental Offices. Prior to joining the IRS, Harrison served in several roles at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Industry Liaison. As the Industry Liaison, he was responsible for providing leadership and direction for DHS offices and outside officials for all aspects of the DHS industry engagement program. He also served as a principal advisor to the Chief Procurement Officer on matters relating to all aspects of procurement. Harrison has 20 years of operational procurement experience with various IRS, DHS Naval Sea Systems Command offices, including acting as the Contracting Officer for several multi-billion dollar IT procurements. As the Director of the Enterprise Acquisitions Division with DHS, he was responsible for a portfolio of 25 strategically-sourced contracts with a cumulative value of $68 billion. He has also worked in policy and strategic analysis positions on the Hill, and has supported the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Business Initiatives and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel under the auspices of the Presidential Management Fellows program.
Pritha Mehra, CIO and Executive Vice President, United States Postal Service
A catalyst for industry-defining innovation, Pritha Mehra oversees one of the world’s largest technology infrastructures. With breadth and depth of expertise across a range of verticals from marketing to technology, she has been tapped to steward critical change in every role of her career. Today she serves as the Chief Information Officer of USPS, re-envisioning and transforming the enterprise for greater performance and innovation at scale.
Pritha is a thought leader on digital transformations and is focused on modernizing mission-critical ecosystems, platforms and networks to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive market environment – overseeing a technology operation that processes more than 115 petabytes of data a year. She led the widely-acclaimed program that set up the digital infrastructure to receive and fulfill orders for 885 million COVID tests to 90 million households. In just 3 weeks, her team set up the 2-click website and backend systems that accepted 44 million orders on the first day.
As Vice President of Information Technology at USPS, she modernized the multi-billion dollar IT operation by restructuring and standing up Enterprise Architecture frameworks that embrace Cloud/Edge, Event Streaming, DevSecOps, Machine Learning, and AI models to drive mission-critical performance and improve customer experience. As Vice President of Mail Entry and Payment Technology, she transformed the USPS business enterprise and mailing industry by overseeing widescale innovations for end-to-end customer visibility and an evolution to a modern mail supply chain, including revamped payment and fraud systems and a marked increase in customer satisfaction.
Pritha has been honored with numerous awards and recognitions including the Women in Logistics and Delivery Services 2022 Award for Excellence, FedScoop’s Top Boss in IT for 2021 and 2022, Postal Service recognition for superior achievement, the Postmaster General Award and a Woman Worth Watching by the Profiles in Diversity Journal. Under her leadership, the USPS CIO received the 2023 Current Data Streaming Award for Innovation and the 2022 Service to the Citizen Award for its COVID-19 distribution system.
A thought leader on digital transformation, Mehra has been a featured speaker at a Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Summit, Google Government Summit, Current Next Generation Kafka Summit, the NYC AI Summit, a GovCIO Podcast on transformation, in the MIT Technology Review, on GovExec TV, and in FedScoop TV’s Leading in the Era of AI and a series on Building a Broader IT Modernization Strategy.
Pritha holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Maryland and a Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University.
Katherine Sickbert, Associate Director for Technology Strategy and Delivery, Federal Reserve Board’s Monetary Affairs Division
Katherine Sickbert is the Associate Director for Technology Strategy and Delivery in the Federal Reserve Board’s Monetary Affairs Division. She brings intellectual leadership to ongoing efforts to modernize technology capabilities for researchers, economists and statisticians working in monetary policymaking, and supports many of the Board’s enterprise IT transformation initiatives. She also helped stand up the Board’s enterprise AI enablement workstreams in early June 2023. Before the Federal Reserve Board, Katherine served as the Deputy CIO of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), with rotations as the acting CIO and acting deputy chief operating officer, where she lead cloud and IT transformation efforts across the agenda. She led the government-wide Salesforce Federal Community of Excellence for many years and more recently served as the small agency executive lead on the Federal Cloud and Infrastructure Community of Practice. She has held technology and cloud leadership roles at the General Services Administration, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Salesforce, and brings a breadth of experience in the areas of technology and innovation, data, human capital, cybersecurity and risk management, IT portfolio management, and federal technology acquisitions. Katherine holds a BA in Spanish and a BS in Business Marketing Management from Virginia Tech. She earned her MBA from the University of Maryland.
Alternate Board members
Drew Myklegard, Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget
Drew Myklegard is the Deputy Federal CIO of the White House tech policy office. He is responsible for driving technology modernization and improving mission delivery by ensuring over $120B in Federal IT spending is well managed. Prior to joining the White House, Drew served as the Executive Director of Product Engineering at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Drew led the implementation of VA’s Lighthouse Application Programming Interface (API) Platform which enabled over 6 million veterans to securely share their health and benefits data with approved third parties – revolutionizing how veterans manage their health care. In addition to his public service, Drew is an active member of the Army Reserves and completed one tour in Iraq.
Patrick Newbold, Chief Information Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Patrick Newbold is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Director of the Office of Information Technology. He is an accomplished IT executive with a distinguished career in federal service. Prior to joining CMS, Patrick served as the Deputy CIO for Strategy for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), managing business, strategy, and customer engagement.
While at SSA, he served as the Social Security Administration (SSA) Chief Information Officer and most senior agency executive leading information technology, software engineering and cybersecurity risk management and operations. He also co-founded the agency’s Office of Transformation, driving wholesale change across the agency, led the agency’s digital modernization efforts. Before joining SSA, he was the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) and Director of Enterprise Information Technology for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In this role, he was the principal advisor to the CIO on information management/technology, policy, and administrative issues for the directorate. He was responsible for IT service delivery for over 37K users.
Throughout his federal career, he has advocated for digital transformation, IT modernization, and enabling business goals through technology. He has served on the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board since 2023, where he evaluates federal agency project proposals submitted for funding under the Modernizing Government Technology Act. Patrick lives in greater Washington D.C. with his wife, Katie, and enjoys travel, early morning exercise, and movies of all genres.
Laura Stanton, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information Technology Category, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration
Laura Stanton serves as the OMB-appointed government-wide IT Category Manager and the Assistant Commissioner for the Information Technology Category (ITC) within the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service.
As Assistant Commissioner for ITC, Stanton oversees more than 6,000 contracts that enable access to IT solutions for federal, state, local, and tribal governments. ITC facilitates over $38 billion in annual government IT spending and has delivered nearly $2 billion in savings to agencies.
As the Government-wide IT Category Manager, Stanton supervises 13 best-in-class (BIC) IT acquisition vehicles across various agencies, accounting for over $77 billion in annual obligations.
Her expertise has significantly contributed to IT modernization and efficiency across federal agencies. Stanton, a recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award and the Government Eagle Award, is recognized for her dedication to improving government IT acquisition and management.
Michael Duffy, Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Management and Budget
Michael Duffy serves as the interim Federal Chief Information Security Officer, responsible for driving cybersecurity policy, planning, and implementation across the Federal Government.
Prior to joining the White House, Duffy was the Associate Director for Capacity Building within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Cybersecurity Division. In that role, he oversaw the management, growth, and modernization of CISA’s external cybersecurity service portfolio including the federal civilian government’s flagship cybersecurity program – the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, which provides agencies with foundational cyber capabilities and enables interactive, operational cyber defense for the Federal IT Enterprise. At CISA, Duffy transformed how CISA coordinates with interagency and critical infrastructure partners to influence, communicate, and implement government-wide priorities; built the cybersecurity directives program which established the federal government and CISA as an industry leader in cybersecurity; spearheaded strategic efforts to drive resiliency and operational visibility across the federal enterprise; established the Federal Enterprise Improvement Team to advance and unify collective cyber defense; and designed and matured the United States’ first government-wide shared cybersecurity services office which provides modern security capabilities to over one hundred agencies, dozens of critical infrastructure entities, and protects over four million assets.
Shelly Hartsook, Acting Associate Director for Cybersecurity Division, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Shelly Hartsook is an Acting Associate Director within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Cybersecurity Division. She leads CISA’s efforts to build the capacity of its customers in addressing our nation’s most pressing cybersecurity challenges through the delivery of externally-facing cybersecurity services, including the capabilities under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program, and enabling support, including cybersecurity training, guidance, and resources. She also leads CISA’s oversight and engagement with federal agencies under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA).
Ms. Hartsook joined CISA in October 2020 after spending more than fifteen years in the private sector as a leader in cybersecurity transformation for the Federal Government, where she was instrumental in shaping and advancing core practices related to Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) and adoption of multi-factor authentication. She specializes in defining and implementing new policies, strategies, architectures, and services in response to emerging cyber needs. At CISA, she led efforts to define a long-term strategic recovery roadmap in the wake of the SolarWinds incidents, which helped spearhead the future direction of CISA’s cybersecurity strategy. Ms. Hartsook has also helped drive several initiatives tied to Executive Order 14028 - “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” including implementation of Endpoint Detection and Response capabilities, advancing adoption of Zero Trust Architecture principles, improving logging, and the development of the Federal Enterprise Improvement Team.
Matt Montaño, Associate Chief Information Officer, The National Park Service
Matt has led technical transformation at national and international organizations to improve digital services through innovation, agile practices, and human-centered design. In prior roles, he launched the Federal Government’s Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence and modernized digital services and customer experience programs across agencies to include the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. He additionally served as the Chief Information Officer for the National Eye Institute and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System. Matt is currently working on improving digital experiences for The National Park Service’s employees and visitors, improving digital accessibility to beautiful lands off the beaten path, and modernizing the Service’s data analytics program. Prior to joining the Civil Service, Matt was a Medical Service Corps Officer in the U.S. Army, where he led research programs to advance healthcare technology and services for soldiers and their families.