Nick Nayak has over 24 years of senior private, public and academic leadership experience. He has been a dynamic figure in the field of federal acquisition – helping to professionalize the federal acquisition workforce; implement methods to obtain acquisition savings; and recruit the next generation of acquisition professionals. Nick served as Deputy Director for IRS Procurement responsible for support to the United States tax collection system. In this capacity, he managed operational procurement enabling IRS to collect nearly $2.7 trillion annually, funding a significant portion of the federal government. Prior to serving as Deputy Director, Nick served in several high-impact leadership positions, including Director, Strategic Acquisition Initiatives, Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology Acquisition, Assistant to Director, Information Technology Program Management Office, Project Executive for the IRS Commissioner’s Security Readiness Project and Director, Treasury Acquisition Institute (TAI). Nick has served in virtually every acquisition workforce role in government including program manager, contracting officer, procurement analyst, contracting officer’s technical representative, technical evaluation chair, purchase card approving official and competition advocate, as well as, contracts administrator, cost estimator and proposal writer in the private sector. Nick has served as an adjunct professor for several universities and taught over 45 undergraduate and graduate business courses. Less   View all posts

Michael Clark currently serves as USAID Contracting Officer Division Chief in the Bureau of Management. He oversees negotiation of contractracts to procure IT systems, developing and/or modifying procurement strategies, administering complex service contracts or pricing structure for extensive IT acquistions for USAID world-wide information management systems. With over 22 years Federal Government Contracting experience, Michael coordienates with senior USAID Internet Technology (IT) program officials, legal council, audit and finance officials, serving as the technical expert for IT procurement policies and procedures to ensure that Federal procurement laws and regulations are followed in acquiring IT tecnology goods and services in support of the USAD modernization plan. Prior to joining the CIO officie, Michael served as contract officer with an unlimited warrant managing a procurement Team within the USAID office of Acquisition and Assistance (M/OAA) supporting a rapid-response portfolio consisting fo the office of transition initiatives (OTI) within the pillar bureau for Demoncracy, Conflict and Humanitarian assistance (DCHA), responsible as signatory for annual obligations of program funds from various funding sources and managing grants and cooperative agreements, personal service contracts, and a multiple award. Before joining USAID in 1998, Michael served as a contract specialist for 9 years at the Naval Air Technical Services Facility in Philadelphia, PA, performing contract negotiations and administration for delivery orders, basic ordering agreement and fixed price contracts; issuance of delivery orders under existing requirements contacts and coordinating with Department of Defense government rerpsenatives at the contractor's plants for contact negotiations of all Naval Aircraft Technical Maintenance manuals. Less   View all posts

Jerry Horton joined the US Agency for International Development as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in February 2009. As CIO, Mr. Horton is responsible for information management. business services, infrastructire operations, and cyber security across USAID. Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Horton was the Associate Director and CIO for the US Mint in The Department of the Treasury, and he acted as the US Mint's Deputy Director from June 2005 through Spetember 2006. Before Joining the Federal Government, Mr. Horton spent five years working in the .COM field with a diverse set of startups and small businesses located in Austin, Texas and Washington, DC> Mr Horton worked at Motorola Semiconductor, in Austin, TX, from 1993 through 1997. beginning as a systems analyst and progressing to manager of the Network and Computing group before ultimately leading the New Technology Development group. Prior to his time with Motorola, Mr. Horton managed a large scale technology transition for the EPA in Corvalis, OR, initiated the global customer support operation for nCube, a supercomputer manufacturer in Beaverton, OR, worked as a developer for Cray Compuer Corporation, a supercomputer spinoff of Cray Research Inc., and started the software development group of Shepard's/McGraw-hill, a leagal publisher in Colorado Springs, CO. Less   View all posts