APHSA is a bipartisan, nonprofit membership organization representing the state and local human service agencies through their top-level leadership.

Tracy L. Wareing is the Executive Director of American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), a bipartisan, nonprofit membership organization representing the state and local human service agencies through their top-level leadership. APHSA houses nine affiliate organizations, whose members administer program-level and system-support operations in the states.

For the last 14 years, the IBM Center for The Business of Government has implemented a mission of bringing external research and leadership perspectives to causes and potential solutions for hard problems facing the public sector.  With the retirement of Jonathan Breul after his very successful tenure as the Center’s Executive Director – Jonathan’s career and major information on government management are eloquently documented by Senior Fellow (and leader of many Center activities) John Kamensky’s

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Whitney ForsterIBM Media Relations(202) 551-9524wdforste@us.ibm.com Jonathan Breul to Retire as Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government Dan Chenok Appointed as Successor

Matt Leighninger is the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC), an alliance of the major organizations and leading scholars working in the field of deliberation and public engagement. The DDC represents more than 50 foundations, nonprofit organizations, and universities, collaborating to support research activities and advance democratic practice, in North America and around the world. Over the last seventeen years, Matt has worked with public engagement efforts in over 100 communities, in 40 states and four Canadian provinces.

Harvey Koeppel is Executive Director of the Center for CIO Leadership. In this capacity, Harvey sets the Center’s strategy and directs internaland external operations. He also serves as Chairman of the Center’s Advisory Committee.

David Venturella is the executive director for ICE’s Secure Communities program, which was announced in March 2008. The program is designed to change immigration enforcement by using technology to share information between law enforcement agencies and by applying risk-based methodologies to focus resources on assisting all local communities remove high-risk criminal aliens.

Career Overview Jonathan D. Breul was the Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government and a Partner in IBM Global Business Services. The IBM Center for The Business of Government helps public sector executives improve the effectiveness of government with practical ideas and original thinking. The Center sponsors independent research by top minds in academe and the non-profit sector, and creates opportunities for dialogue on a broad range of public management topics.

Local and state governments are under tremendous pressureto do more for citizens and to do it better. Technology hasenabled governments to do just that, and nowhere is this