NEWS ROOM | Press Releases
For immediate release: October 11, 2001
Contact: Nancy Howard
NASCIO ELECTS NEW LEADERSHIP
(Lexington, KY) - NASCIO, representing chief information of the states, elected Rock Regan, Chief Information Officer for the State of Connecticut, to be the president of the association for 2001-2002. Regan succeeds Aldona Valicenti, CIO for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, who will continue to be an officer of the executive board. The new slate of officers was voted on by the membership electronically rather than at the annual conference which had to be cancelled as a result of the events of September 11, 2001. The new slate of officers became official on October 10, 2001. The following are the new and returning officers and directors. For more information about individual executive board members please visit the State Profiles section of the NASCIO website at http://www.nascio.org/aboutNascio/profiles/.
Officers
President - Rock Regan, CIO, Connecticut
Vice President - Gerry Wethington, CIO, Missouri
Secretary/Treasurer - Robert N. Stafford, CIO, New Mexico
Past President - Aldona Valicenti, CIO, Kentucky
Returning Directors
Anthony Herbert, Deputy CIO, Montana
Wendy Rayner, CIO, New Jersey
Mary Barber Reynolds, CTO, Illinois
Larry Singer, CIO, Georgia
New
Directors
Robert Feingold, CIO, Colorado
Gregory Jackson, CIO, Ohio
Terry Savage, Director, Department of Information Technology, Nevada
Curtis Wolfe, CIO, North Dakota Corporate Leadership Council Representative
Holli Ploog, President, Dyncorp Management Resources
Federal
CIO Council Representative (ex officio)
Edward Meagher, Special Assistant to the Secretary for IT, U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs
"I'm honored to have been chosen by my peers to serve as NASCIO president," stated Regan. "NASCIO's mission has taken on new urgency, with technology evolving rapidly and changing how government operates. Over the next year it is my expectation CIO's will continue to unite and mobilize with new momentum to provide expertise, partnership and action in seeking the highest standards of technology use in government."
"This new momentum starts immediately, with next month's Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Forum to discuss how security relates to state IT systems. NASCIO will issue a conference report after the meeting. We will continue to focus on this issue as well as other NASCIO initiatives including adaptive enterprise architecture, digital government and component reuse."
Other NASCIO projects for the coming year include compendiums on digital government in the states and federal privacy laws. NASCIO will also unveil its adaptive enterprise architecture toolkit. NASCIO will issue briefs on resource funding pools, return on investment and privacy of social security numbers. Expect updates on HIPAA and accessibility. NASCIO members will also participate in discussions on forming a state security information sharing and analysis center.
NASCIO represents the state chief information officers from the 50 states, six U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Members include cabinet and senior level state officials responsible for information resource management. Other IT officials participate as associate members and private sector representatives may become corporate members. Association Management Resources, Inc. (AMR) provides NASCIO's executive staff. For more information on the association visit NASCIO on-line at www.nascio.org.
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