IBM Center for The Business of Government

Dr. Morgan Swink teaches and leads research in areas of supply chain management, innovation management, project management, and operations strategy. Dr. Swink’s current research projects address digital transformation, innovation management, servitization, visibility, collaborative integration, and financial impacts of supply management policies. He has been ranked among the top ten innovation management scholars in the world, and among the top 75 most productive operations management scholars. Dr.

Dr. David Preston is a Professor of Information Systems at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration and M.B.A from the University of Georgia and a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from the University of Florida. His research interests include the role/impact of executive IS/business management with regard to organizational IS, IS strategic alignment, and strategic implementation of analytics.

Mark Newsome is the Center's Healthcare Fellow and an IBM Senior Partner, Industry Leader, U.S. Federal Healthcare Consulting. He has an extensive background in health care management, government affairs, and business development. He is a retired Army Medical Service Corps Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with over 25 years of active duty service culminating as Army Medical Congressional Budget Liaison with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller, Pentagon.

As the Acting Director, Chief Data Officer, Ms. Kuharske leads with the focus on creating a culture that embraces a robust programmatic approach in data management and to identify, prioritize, and execute data and analytic initiatives that are aligned to the DISA enterprise strategies and business outcomes. Ms. Kuharske serves as a senior cross-functional change agent across the directorate and authoritative source of information for decision making managers and plan