Nitin Pradhan

Nitin Pradhan Managing Partner, GOVonomy Nitin Pradhan is the Managing Partner of GOVonomy, the nations first strategic technology-sourcing marketplace for the public sector.GOVonomy connects public organizations with new technology products and productized services from growth companies and helps arrange strategic discussions, demonstrations and pilots for increased understanding, education, purchasing and integration to reduce technology deployment cost and increase speed of execution. Nitin is also the CEO of Public Private Innovations (PPI), the first nation’s growth accelerator focused on the public sector. The PPI program is a capacity and capability builder that provides immediate access to high-end advice, guidance, research, analysis, design, development, prototyping, productizing, testing, engineering, staffing, operations and troubleshooting expertise at a fraction of the cost of maintaining such expertise in house. Nitin is also an expert author for Information Week, and is on the board of Innovative Solutions Consortium. Nitin was a recent Obama administration appointee and award winning, nationally recognized federal CIO for the US Department of Transportation (DOT) where he provided IT vision, strategy, policy and oversight for US DOT’s more than $3.0 billion IT portfolio, the 6th largest in the federal government. Nitin’s focus has been on utilizing technology transformatively, innovatively and strategically to drive significant business and public value. The CIO magazine honored Nitin Pradhan with CIO 100 award for the innovative approaches to use IT to reduce costs and increase efficiency and public value. Computer World magazine also named Nitin to its Computer World Premier 100 lifetime recognition award where he joins an elite group of top US IT executives. Nitin has been on Information Week’s “Government CIO 50: Driving Change in the Public Sector” for bringing a businessperson’s point of view to management of IT strategy, policy and implementation. Under his leadership, the US DOT Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has also won awards from the White House, Information Week, GTRA, AFFIRM, and the U.S. General Services Administration for leadership, innovation, open government, governance, service and culture. Prior to joining US DOT, Nitin was an IT Executive at Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), the 11th largest school district in USA. FCPS’ IT department was ranked in the CIO Magazine’s Top 100 IT Organizations and Computer World’s 100 Best Places to Work in the nation during Nitin’s tenure. Prior to joining FCPS, Nitin was the Managing Director of Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT). Nitin has also been the co-founder and CEO of a wireless startup. Nitin has a BS in engineering and a MBA in marketing from India, as well as a MS in accounting from The American University, in Washington DC.