As Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy, Tom Pyke leads the Department’s management of information technology, ensuring that the Department acquires and manages its IT resources so as to provide strong support for DOE missions, and at lowest cost. Mr. Pyke has led DOE in revitalizing its cyber security program and improving its IT capital investment review and enterprise architecture processes. The Department of Energy’s annual IT budget is $2.1 billion.

Before joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Pyke was the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Commerce, from 2001 to 2005. At the Department of Commerce, Mr. Pyke was a senior manager of information technology for over 30 years. As Commerce Chief Information Officer, he led major improvements in the Department's IT security posture and IT planning and capital investment review processes. Previously, Mr. Pyke was with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services. He then created and led NOAA’s High Performance Computing and Communications program and became NOAA’s first CIO. He was also Director of the GLOBE Program for Vice President Al Gore, leading an interagency team that created an international environmental science and education program now involving over 21,000 schools in 110 countries. Tom began his career at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), where he was Director of the Center for Computer Systems Engineering and then Director of the Center for Programming Science and Technology.

He earned a BSEE as a Westinghouse Scholar from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and an MSE in Computer Systems as a Ford Foundation Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pyke is the author of more than 40 technical papers and reports and has lectured widely at conferences and symposiums. He has received numerous awards, including the Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award and two Presidential Meritorious Rank Awards, and he is listed in Who's Who in America.

Mr. Pyke is a senior member of the IEEE, a Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of the ACM, AAAS, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Omicron Delta Kappa. He is a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences, from which he received the Engineering Science Award.