Richard Mangogna
On April 8th, 2008, Mr. Richard Mangogna was appointed by President George W. Bush as the US Department of Homeland Security's Chief Information Officer (CIO). Mr. Mangogna was responsible for deploying a $5.4 billion budget in pursuit of the Secretary's Information Technology vision. In this capacity, he played a key role developing the IT priorities, policies, processes, standards, guidelines and procedures that enable DHS to fulfill its ambitious mandate.
Prior to his appointment as DHS CIO, Mr. Mangogna served as Under Secretary of Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), where he was charged with assessing the Temporary Worker Program (TWP) and Immigration Reform Transformation Initiative (IRTI). He also played a key role enhancing call center surge capability following Hurricane Katrina, and was responsible for performing a comprehensive review of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Mr. Mangogna came to Federal service following a 40 year IT and management career in the private sector, culminating in his appointment as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for JP Morgan Chase. Reporting directly to the CEO, he had responsibility for managing 28,000 personnel in 26 countries worldwide. As the result of his extraordinary experience managing change across complex organizations, Mr. Mangogna was given responsibility for leading the CEO's Merger Team. In this capacity, he oversaw 13 mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures during his tenure. This included oversight of the merger between JP Morgan and Chase Manhattan Banks, which created one of the world's largest global financial institutions.
A veteran of the United States Air Force, Mr. Mangogna is currently CEO of the Mason Harriman Group, a firm consisting of former Fortune 200 CxO’s, Divisional Presidents and SME’s each with a minimum of 25 years experience. John Meincke
Brigadier General (ret) John Meincke retired as Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (J6) at the U.S. Central Command. He also served as Vice Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and as the Executive Officer of the Directorate of Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
While at U.S. Central Command, General Meincke developed the Theater C4ISR Control Center (TCCC) for CENTCOM. This allowed the monitoring and coordination of all CENTCOM network elements throughout his area of responsibility. TCCC's integration into the Global Network Operations and Security Center allowed DISA to immediately visualize and assess the impact of network status on combat operations.
General Meincke also secured the first operational fiber optic connectivity for DoD communications systems within the Middle East. He held additional senior leadership positions within the Air Force, including Headquarters USAF Director of Information Technology Systems and Director of Information Technology Policy, where he created overarching C4 systems security policy for the Air Force.
John is currently CEO of SENGEX LLC, a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business providing information technology support to commercial and government clients. John Garing
Number 12 on Fast Company's 2009 ranking of the most creative people in business, John Garing served as the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Director of Strategic Planning and Information. Responsible for supporting the Director in decision making, strategy development, funding and resource allocation, he was instrumental in establishing DISA as an IT thought leader.
Mr. Garing also enhanced DISA’s relationships with the private sector. These strategic business relationships led to innovations and revolutions in acquisition to include the first use of managed services, capacity-on-demand, utility pricing, and alternate service concepts, channels, and delivery. He led internal and public messaging, and redesigned the annual DISA Customer Partnership Conference – now the premier Defense IT conference with 4,000 attendees. Mr. Garing also served as DISA CIO. In this role, he transformed management of business performance and led the strategy for the first DISA enterprise architecture of three frameworks - service delivery, business systems, and knowledge.
From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Garing led the Defense Enterprise Computing Centers (DECC), a collection of 18 major data centers serving over 5 million customers. Through centralization and automation of DECC systems he consolidated operations, and introduced best practices in financing, managed services, and capacity on demand computing. This enabled a 500 percent increase in storage capacity, a 1500 percent increase in processing power, while slashing operational costs by $300 million.
A retired Air Force Officer, John Garing is currently a Principal Consultant with Suss Consulting.
Jeff Snyder
Jeff Snyder is currently Vice President of Cyber Programs at Raytheon Corporation. He has also held executive level positions with SAIC as Vice President of Business Development, General Dynamics, and Veridian Corporation, leading teams in winning over $6 billion in new business over the course of his career. His customers include the majority of the Intelligence, Defense, Homeland Security, Federal Civil Agencies, and many commercial clients, with a key focus in the areas of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection.
A scientist by training, Mr. Synder holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, graduated from the Navy's Graduate Nuclear Engineering Program, and completed his MBA at the University of Central Florida. He has served on the board of the Centech Group since 2001.
