Kathryn Darnall Helms
2024 Recipient
Chief Data Officer
State of Oregon
Paula Peters
2024 Recipient
Deputy CIO for Digital Transformation
State of Missouri
Nick Stowe
2024 Recipient
State Chief Technology Officer
State of Washington
Roger Gibson
2023 Recipient
Chief Operating Officer
State of New Jersey
Susan Kellogg
2023 Recipient
Chief Deputy State Chief Information Officer & Chief Services Officer
State of North Carolina
Alex Wong
2023 Recipient
Chief Information Technology Architect
State of Kansas
Luke Charde
2022 Recipient
Director of User Experience Design & Web Content Management
State of New York
Sean Hughes
2022 Recipient
Assistant Secretary for Technology, Security and Operations & COO
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ashely Laymon
2022 Recipient
Chief Experience Officer
State of Maryland
Rick Klau
2021 Recipient
State Chief Technology Innovation Officer
State of California
Dale Richardson
2021 Recipient
Chief Operations Officer
State of Texas
Julia Richman
2021 Recipient
Deputy Executive Director
Governor’s Office of Information Technology
State of Colorado
Everton Heron
2020 Recipient
Director of Technology & Operations
Division of TennCare
State of Tennessee
Kierston Howard
2020 Recipient
Deputy Director
Department of Labor and Employment
State of Colorado
Douglas B. Smith, III
2020 Recipient
CIO, Director of Information Technology
Office of the Attorney General
State of Florida
Nikhil Deshpande
2019 Recipient
Chief Digital Officer
State of Georgia
Tony Powell
2019 Recipient
CIO, Department of Health
State of Florida
Tere Shade
2019 Recipient
Business Solutions Manger
State of Texas
Chris Cruz
2018 Recipient
Deputy CIO
State of California
David McCurdy
2018 Recipient
CTO
State of Colorado
Rajiv Rao
2018 Recipient
CTO
State of New York
Derek Bridges
2017 Recipient
Program Administrator, OAKS
State of Ohio
Carrie Mayne
2017 Recipient
Chief Economist, Department of Workforce Services
State of Utah
Steve Nichols
2017 Recipient
PhD, Chief Technology Officer
State of Georgia
John Hickenlooper
2016 Recipient
Governor
State of Colorado
Dr. Bill Hazel
2016 Recipient
Secretary of Health and Human Resources
Commonwealth of Virginia
Delano Squires
2016 Recipient
Director
Connect.DC
Terry Branstad
2015 Recipient
Governor
State of Iowa
Chris Clark
2015 Recipient
Executive Director, Office of Administrative and Technology Services, Cabinet for Health and Human Services
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Secretary Michael Leavitt
2015 Recipient
Program Director, Electronic and Information Resources Accessibility
State of Texas
Mark Walker
2014 Recipient
Deputy Tax Commissioner/CIO
Ohio Department of Taxation
Dianna Anderson
2014 Recipient
Chief Data Officer
Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
Selvi Stanislaus
2013 Recipient
Executive Officer
State of California
Scott Gessler
2013 Recipient
Secretary of State
State of Colorado
Dave Heineman
2012 Recipient
Governor
State of Nebraska
Ruth Johnson
2011 Recipient
Secretary, Department of Children and Family Services
State of Louisiana
David Y. Ige
2010 Recipient
Senate Technology Leader
State of Hawaii
Chris Johnson
2010 Recipient
Vice President of Geospatial Technologies, U.S. Space and Rocket Center
State of Alabama
Eric Swanson
2010 Recipient
Director, Center for Shared Solutions and Technology Partnerships, Department of Technology, Management and Budget
State of Michigan
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