Keith Thurston is the Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator in the Office of Technology Strategy - part of the Office of Governmentwide Policy at General Services Administration. His work calls for him to work with a number of Governmentwide initiatives and groups to help formulate technology guidance, direction and policy. In that role - he has worked with Federal CIO Council since its inception in 1996 and focuses on the new policy issues as the technology evolves. He was a part of the management of the Quicksilver Task Force that produced the recommendations for the President’s E-Gov initiatives.

Before joining GSA in 1990, he was with U.S. Treasury and IRS working in technology and network communications for 15 years.

He holds a Bachelors degree in Business and a Masters of Business Administration in Telecommunications.

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