Leadership Team Biographies

Paul A. Brinkley, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation

Paul A. Brinkley currently serves as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation. He oversees business modernization for the Department of Defense while also leading economic revitalization efforts in Iraq. In May 2006, Mr. Brinkley established the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Iraq, with the mission to improve economic conditions for the Iraqi people. At the time, unemployment exceeded 50% and economically motivated violence among idled workers was a key contributor to the escalating casualties among U.S. forces. Under his leadership, the Task Force, in support of Multi-National Force Iraq commanders, has restored jobs to thousands of Iraqis and helped bring stability and security to the country.

Mr. Brinkley continues to lead the Task Force in Iraq, where he spends an average of two weeks every month. The Task Force focuses on private sector development, revitalization of closed factories and industries, transitional privatization of the state-sector economy, banking modernization, and agricultural development.

In 2004, Mr. Brinkley was appointed to modernize business practices at the Department of Defense and oversee an annual spending budget of $4 billion on defense business modernization programs. He subsequently established and served as founding co-Director of the Business Transformation Agency (BTA), a new governmental organization designed to accelerate improved finance, accounting, logistics, supply chain, and human resource management processes and associated systems within the Department. Since its inception, the BTA has received a number of awards and recognition by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congress for significant, broad improvements in defense business practices.

Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Mr. Brinkley held a number of senior executive roles with technology companies. Mr. Brinkley received a bachelor's and master's degree in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. A licensed professional engineer, he is the recipient of four U.S. patents, and has published research on process optimization, production economics, and artificial intelligence. Mr. Brinkley also served on the economic development advisory council to the Fujian Provincial Government in the People's Republic of China.

Mark E. Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategic Sourcing and Acquisition Processes

Mr. Krzysko assumed his position as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Strategic Sourcing and Acquisition Processes on January 9, 2006. As a senior leader in the Department of Defense (DoD), Mr. Krzysko is driving the implementation of strategic sourcing across the Department. In this role, he is responsible for transforming business capabilities and determining new sourcing opportunities. He also serves as the Department lead for sourcing initiatives across the federal government.

Most recently, Mr. Krzysko served as Director of the Supply Chain Systems Transformation Directorate (SCST). As the focal point for supply chain systems, he was responsible for transformation, implementation and oversight of enterprise-level capabilities for the acquisition, logistics and procurement communities. In addition, Mr. Krzysko advised the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation on supply chain matters and served as the functional process proponent to the Department's Business Transformation efforts. Mr. Krzysko joined the Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy office as Deputy Director of E-Business in 2002. He was responsible for transformation of the acquisition community into a strategic business enterprise, including driving the adoption of e-business practices, leading the move to modernize processes and systems, and managing the investment review process and portfolio of business systems. Mr. Krzysko served as the Director of Electronic Commerce Solutions for the Naval Air Systems Command from 2000 to 2002. Prior to this post, he served in various senior-level acquisition positions at the Naval Air Systems Command. In addition, he served as Program Manager of Partnering, the Acquisition Business Process Re-engineering Effort, and as Acquisition Program Manager for the Program Executive Office for Tactical Aircraft.

Mr. Krzysko holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Maryland, University College, and a Master of General Administration, Financial Management from the same institution.

Elizabeth McGrath, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Business Transformation)

Ms. McGrath currently serves as the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Business Transformation). Ms. McGrath's responsibilities include integrating and coordinating with the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Principal Staff Assistant (PSA) organizations, ensuring all business transformation requirements are aligned to the PSA goals and objectives. Ensuring
coordination maximizes synergies and capabilities between the Under Secretary of Defense functions for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L), Personnel and Readiness (P&R), and Comptroller (C).

Preceding her current position, Ms. McGrath served as the Deputy Director for Systems Integration, Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). At DFAS, Ms. McGrath replaced the Department of Defense's (DoD's) numerous legacy systems via her finance and accounting migration strategy, executed with a collective annual budget of approximately $130M-$1B over the life cycle. Also managing the financial architecture supporting DoD-wide standard financial systems, working to integrate it with the Department's evolving Enterprise Architecture. The project scope included logistics, personnel, medical, acquisition and financial missions including many Acquisition Category IAM and III Programs. Prior to joining DFAS, Ms. McGrath served in a variety of Program Management roles culminating in Program Executive Office (PEO) level oversight responsibility. She possesses extensive knowledge of acquisition-related statutes, regulations and policies with over 15 years applied acquisition experience with Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP) and Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS). Internationally, she served as the Business and Acquisition Manager with the United Kingdom and held numerous other financial, acquisition and Program Management positions within the U.S. Department of the Navy.

Ms. McGrath holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from George Mason University and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute (FEI). She is certified Acquisition Level III in Program Management, Financial Management and Logistics, is a member of the DoD Acquisition Professional Community.

K. Eileen Giglio , Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategic Plans and Initiatives

Ms. Giglio currently serves as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategic Plans and Initiatives. Ms. Giglio's responsibilities include coordinating the alignment of strategic Business Transformation efforts with those of other Department initiatives such as Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Project (DAPA). She is responsible for integration and communication of ideas for business transformation initiatives and will oversee the modeling and testing of assessments applicable to Business Transformation from external reviews. She will ensure these efforts, and others from the Defense Science and Defense Business Boards, are applied efficiently and synergistically for the benefit of the Department. In this capacity Ms Giglio drives change management to result in comprehensive, integrated and transparent processes to support the DUSD (BT) and his direct reports, including the ADUSD for Strategic Sourcing and Acquisition Policy. Ms. Giglio also serves as the Director of the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Panel Liaison Office and manages the Panel’s resource center, events, implementation issues and responses to inquiries. She is also responsible for the functional requirements for the USXPORTS System and commercial requests for DoD technology exports.

Ms. Giglio formerly served as the Deputy Director of the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Project. Prior to that assignment, she served as the Director, Special Projects in the Office of International Technology Security for the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). During the course of her career, Ms. Giglio has served at the White House, State Department, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and as a Defense Legislative Assistant to Representative Hal Daub (R-Nebraska). She was one of the original employees at the On-Site Inspection Agency, serving as Chief of Congressional Affairs and Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Her career has been dedicated to national security policy issues serving as a government liaison with the press, the Congress and industry.

Ms. Giglio is a Senior Executive Fellow of Harvard University's JFK School of Government. She graduated from the University of Nebraska with a major in Political Science and a minor in German.

Dennis E. Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area

Mr. Wisnosky is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation (OUSD (BT)).

As Chief Technical Officer, Mr. Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) - the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies. Mr. Wisnosky ensures that the federated architectures of the BMA fully support the Department's vision, mission, strategy and priorities for Business Transformation, and that each tier of the overall architecture is clearly defined with appropriate focused accountability aligned to the management structure of the DoD. He verifies that the BEA and component architectures remain consistent and compliant with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), and will support and collaborate with the DoD Components to unify architecture planning, development, and maintenance through a federated approach. Mr. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DoD Chief Information Officer.

Mr. Wisnosky has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) consulting and training, including extensive experience in business process reengineering and enterprise architecture efforts. His specialty is deriving solutions to effectively move organizations from their "as-is" state of inefficiency to their "to-be" state of achieving strategic and tactical objectives. Mr. Wisnosky is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. In addition, he is the author of several books including DoDAF Wizdom, considered the decisive source within DoD and other government organizations for managing enterprise architecture projects. Mr. Wisnosky holds a bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics fiom California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in Management Science from the University of Dayton, and a master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

John E. Nyere, Special Assistant for Supply Chain Systems

Mr. Nyere currently serves as the Special Assistant for Supply Chain Systems in the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation.

Mr. Nyere has 34 years of federal sector program management, leadership, technical and functional experience as both a uniformed and private sector professional. His fifteen years of extensive, continually progressive, multifunctional DoD logistics experience included corporate oversight, key leadership positions, materiel management/readiness, supply, maintenance, transportation, and medical service operations/plans/programs. He has eighteen years of information technology (IT) experience principally in logistics, but also in communications and other functional IT systems. For the last seven years, Mr. Nyere headed his own company. During that period, Mr. Nyere was the Y2K test coordinator for logistics. He led the Interface Assessment Working Group, a DoD-wide body, through the process of plan development, test planning, test execution and critical date rollovers. For his Y2K efforts, Mr. Nyere was awarded the Presidential Y2K Medal by the USD (AT&L) for contributions to the nation. Subsequently, he focused on efforts related to enterprise integration and architected logistics processes for the Department of Defense. He contributed to both the Materiel Supply and Services Management components of the Business Enterprise Architecture and the Enterprise Transition Plan.

He is a member of the Supply Chain Council and advises its Technical Development Steering Committee. He recently led the Supply Chain Council's development and release of the Design Chain Operational Reference (DCOR) model Version 1 in March 2006. The DCOR model was originally developed by HP and was conveyed to the Council in 2004. He is a graduate of Washington State University and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.