Board of Advisors
The Data Transparency Coalition is steered by a Board of Advisors.
Mike Atkin has been a professional facilitator and financial information industry advocate for over 20 years. He is currently the Managing Director for the Enterprise Data Management Council – a business forum for financial institutions, data originators and vendors on the strategy and tactics of managing data as an enterprise-wide asset. Mike is an active participant in standards initiatives and has been involved with many organizations including the Reference Data Coalition (REDAC), the Securities and Financial Information Markets Association (SIFMA), the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the UK Reference Data User Group (RDUG). He was also a member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Market Data and a member of both ISO TC68 and ANSI X9D. Mike has been the Managing Director of the EDM Council since February 2006.
Gila J. Bronner, CPA, is President and CEO of Bronner Group, LLC, a woman-owned, multi-disciplined professional services company that delivers comprehensive strategy, transformation and accountability consulting services to state and local governments and federal agencies. Throughout her distinguished career, Ms. Bronner has assisted several hundred government entities throughout the United States and Puerto Rico in streamlining business practices, conducting extensive management audits, improving financial management processes, implementing new enterprise systems, improving internal controls, and developing strong public oversight and accountability mechanisms.
Ms. Bronner is highly respected by government lawmakers and regulators as an expert on auditor independence and related accountability and internal control issues and is a nationally recognized authority on governmental accounting, auditing, compliance and oversight. She has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of auditor independence, government efficiency, performance management, grants management, homeland safety, and is a recognized thought leader on public sector implementation and compliance issues associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Ms. Bronner has comprehensive experience as a board member and deep knowledge of institutional governance. She currently serves or has served on numerous significant civic and professional boards, as well as several independent oversight and advisory commissions. Ms. Bronner has also served on numerous transition teams at the State and local levels of government. In addition, she participated as a member of the VA-DOD reinvention team during the Clinton/Gore National Performance Review.
Pursuant to a Presidential appointment, Ms. Bronner has served as a member of the governing board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ms. Bronner formerly chaired the Museum’s Audit Committee and Finance Committee and is also a current or former member of the Museum’s Executive, Ad-Hoc, Investment, Audit, Finance, and Strategic Planning Committees. She also served as an initial member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Advisory Council, Financial Audit Committee (FAC).
Greg Bateman is the Senior Director, Acquisition Programs, Policy and Strategy for Microsoft Federal. In this role, he leads a team of former industry and federal government leaders tasked with engaging Executive Branch agencies to share private sector best practices on efficient operations of large organizations.
Through June of 2010, Mr. Bateman was the Director, Joint/Defense Agencies. In this role, Mr. Bateman led a team with overall responsibility for Microsoft’s relationship with the various DOD agencies, combatant commanders, and executive organizations such as the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Prior to taking this position, Mr. Bateman had responsibility for Microsoft’s relationship with the US Marine Corps and served as the Program Manager for Microsoft’s participation in the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) program.
Previously, Mr. Bateman has had several roles at Microsoft, starting in 1997, when he joined Microsoft’s commercial practice in Washington, DC. Mr. Bateman has had a long career in the IT industry, having served in various positions at Oracle Corporation, TIBCO Software and BTG.
Mr. Bateman has a Master’s of Business Administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park and an undergraduate degree in International Studies from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He considers himself a news junkie and is lifelong student of international affairs. He is based in the Washington, DC area, where he lives with his family.
Tim Day is Vice President of Government Affairs for Teradata based in Washington, D.C. He founded and has led Teradata’s Government Affairs activities since 2007. After 14 years on Capitol Hill and serving as Chief of Staff to former Congresswoman Deborah Pryce (R-OH), Tim joined NCR Government Affairs in 2001 as Vice President.
Tim directs Teradata’s public policies, both federal and state, and influences government decisions that grows and protects the use of data warehouse technology and Teradata’s business operations. Tim is a member of the Teradata Law Department Leadership Team reporting to Laura Nyquist, Teradata General Counsel and Secretary.
Tim has more than 25 years of management experience in federal government and high-tech government affairs. He has been a speaker at various seminars and symposiums on Capitol Hill addressing a wide variety of topics important not only to Teradata but the technology industry overall.
Tim earned a Bachelor’s degree from Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio in 1987. In 1998, he was accepted as a delegate to the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) and serves on the board of directors of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). He resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Earl E. Devaney served as Chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (Recovery Board) until his retirement in December 2011.
On February 23, 2009, six days after signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, President Obama named Devaney to head the Recovery Board, which is charged with overseeing spending under the $787 billion program. In announcing Devaney’s appointment, the President said: “Earl has doggedly pursued waste, fraud and mismanagement. He has the reputation of being one of the best [Inspectors General] that we have in this town…. I can’t think of a more tenacious and efficient guardian of the hard-earned tax dollars the American people have entrusted us to wisely invest.”
As Chairman of the Recovery Board, Devaney oversaw the construction of the first-ever standardized, government-wide spending accountability and transparency platform. Using the Recovery Board's platform, federal inspectors general opened more than 1,800 investigations of questionable grantees and contractors. Nearly 400 people were convicted or pleaded guilty; $15.7 million was recovered from grantees and contractors; and $27 million was prevented from being paid out. From June 2011 until his retirement, Devaney also chaired President Obama's Government Accountability and Transparency Board (GAT Board), which was charged with recommending ways to expand the Recovery Board's spending oversight innovations to all federal spending. The GAT Board released its initial recommendations on December 14, 2011.
President Bill Clinton appointed Devaney as the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior in 1999. During his tenure at the Office of Inspector General (OIG), he oversaw the public corruption investigations that led to the convictions of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Interior Deputy Secretary Steven Griles. He also presided over the oil and gas investigations that engulfed the Minerals Management Service from 2007 to 2009.
Devaney’s commitment to leadership – he graduated from Georgetown University’s prestigious Leadership Coaching Program – is reflected in the OIG’s #1 ranking among agency subcomponents in both Strategic Management and Work/Life Balance in the highly regarded “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” 2009 survey.
Before becoming the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior, Devaney spent eight years as the Director of the Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training for the Environmental Protection Agency. In that job, he supervised all of EPA’s criminal investigators, the agency’s forensics laboratory, and its enforcement training institute. In 1998, he received the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award for outstanding government service.
Devaney began his federal law enforcement career with the Secret Service in 1970, following his graduation from Franklin and Marshall College. At the time of his retirement from the Secret Service in 1991, Devaney was Special Agent-in-Charge of the Fraud Division and was recognized as an international expert in white collar crime.
Eric Gillespie is the Managing Partner at Seattle, Washington based Viano Capital, an investment firm focused on data and information services companies. He is the former Senior Vice President of Onvia, a Nasdaq-listed firm that provides research and tools to track, analyze and report the activities of more than 89,000 federal, state and local government agencies. At Onvia he created and led the private sector transparency initiative recovery.org, which provided early and comprehensive visibility into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Prior to working for Onvia, he was the founder of The Patent Board, the leading provider of standardized intellectual property data and patent analytics to the financial services industry, and the creator of The Wall Street Journal’s Patent Scorecard. As an expert in the private sector's use of public sector data, he is a sought-after media spokesperson and has testified before the before the US Congress on matters of government transparency, data and public sector technology. Mr. Gillespie also worked for IBM, Scient, CSC and other leading technology companies, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
As director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, Jim Harper works to adapt law and policy to the unique problems of the information age, in areas such as privacy, telecommunications, intellectual property, and security. Harper was a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee and he recently co-edited the book Terrorizing Ourselves: How U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It. He has been cited and quoted by numerous print, Internet, and television media outlets, and his scholarly articles have appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Harper wrote the book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. Harper is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy, and he maintains online federal spending resource WashingtonWatch.com. He holds a J.D. from UC Hastings College of Law.
Beth Simone Noveck is a Professor of Law at New York Law School. She served in the White House as United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer (2009-2011) and leader of the White House Open Government Initiative (@opengov). As a result of the Administration’s Open Government efforts, today every department and agency has an Open Government Plan that outlines specific and innovative commitments to create more effective government. Also hundreds of thousands of collections of government information are now freely available to the public on the Web and citizens have burgeoning opportunities to use new platforms to participate in their democracy.
Dr. Noveck served on the Obama-Biden Transition Team and was a volunteer advisor to the Obama for America campaign on issues of technology, innovation, and government reform.
She focuses her scholarship, activism and teaching on the future of democracy in the 21st century. Specifically, her work addresses how digital networks impact institutions and how we can use such technologies to strengthen democratic culture. With the support of the MacArthur Foundation in 2011-12, she is developing an agenda for interdisciplinary research on institutional innovation.
She founded the Democracy Design Workshop Do Tank, a program for the design of law, policy, and technology to foster openness and collaboration. She envisions the opportunity for institutional innovation as a series of solvable design problems. Together with students at New York Law School and with the support of the Omdiyar Network, MacArthur Foundation and seven leading patent-holding firms, she designed and built the U.S. government’s first expert network (http://www.peertopatent.org). The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Council of Europe and AmericaSpeaks have sponsored her research on online communities by funding then Cairns Project, graphical software to support group formation and collaboration. She also received a grant from ICAIR to support the creation of Democracy Island, an experimental space within a virtual world for research on citizen participation. She is currently working with colleagues inside government and out on the design for “IOPedia,” a platform for mashing up and visualizing public corporate accountability data and tracking the evolution of organizations.
Dr. Noveck founded the State of Play conference, the first (and still ongoing annual) conference on videogames, virtual worlds and society. She was named “One of the Hundred Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company magazine and “One of the Top 5 Game Changers” by Politico in 2010. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, she holds a PhD from the University of Innsbruck and is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings Institution Press 2009), which will appear this year in Arabic and Chinese and in an audio edition (http://www.universitypressaudiobooks.com/detail.php/61), and co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (NYU Press 2006). She tweets @bethnoveck.
Campbell Pryde is the President and CEO of XBRL US. Before taking on the President and CEO position, Mr. Pryde led the development and maintenance of taxonomies as Chief Standards Officer, playing an integral role on the executive team. Mr. Pryde joined XBRL US from Morgan Stanley, where as Executive Director in the Institutional Securities Group, he managed the equity research XBRL-based valuation framework. He has been involved with XBRL since 2001, and served as Chairman of the XBRL US Domain Steering Committee during the critical initial build of the US GAAP Taxonomy under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Pryde was a Partner in the Risk and Advisory Practice of KPMG LLP. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
