IBM Center for The Business of Government

Mark K. Cassell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Kent State University, where he teaches courses in public policy and administration, comparative public policy, and urban politics. His scholarship is mainly concerned with understanding public sector transformations. His work includes How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (Georgetown University Press, 2003).

Angela Carrington, a Vice President and Partner, is currently the Quality and Delivery Excellence Leader for IBM Public Service, which includes Federal, State and Local, and Education.  She has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of financial management, project management, procurement and contracts management, budgeting, accounting and experience in delivering complex large-scale systems implementation and analytics programs.

Colin Campbell was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1943. He was educated in that city and at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, where he received his A.B. (Hons.) in political science in 1965. In 1966, he obtained his M.A. in political science at the University of Alberta. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1973. From 1975 to 1983, Campbell taught at York University in Toronto where he became professor of political science and coordinator of the Public Policy and Administration Program.

John J. Callahan, was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution during 2001. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Management and Budget, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Information Officer of theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1995 until 2001. During that time he also served as Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. In 1997, Dr. Callahan served on the President’s Management Council(PMC). He was appointed vice chairman of the Chief Financial Officers Prior to his work at HHS, Dr.