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In May 2011, the New York State Senate unanimously confirmed Governor Cuomo's nomination of RoAnn M. Destito as Commissioner of the Office of General Services. Citing her experience as a 19-year member of the New York State Assembly, Cuomo stated, "Commissioner Destito will play a crucial role in modernizing our state operations and helping to restore performance to state government. She will use her wealth of experience, business acumen, and good judgment to cut costs throughout government and deliver more for the people of New York."

Commissioner Destito is leading transformational changes at the Office of General Services as it implements programs in support of Governor Cuomo's vision to change the way government does business and make it more effective, efficient, and responsive to the needs of citizens. Destito is intensifying OGS' focus on procuring services and commodities at best value and maximizing the use of state-owned and leased office space.

As a longstanding public servant, Destito is committed to Governor Cuomo's call to restore public trust and create a government that New York can be proud of.

From Rome, New York, Destito was elected to represent the 116th Assembly district (Oneida County) in 1992. During her time in the Assembly, she worked to advance and strengthen the state's procurement practices, opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses, and support for military families.

Beginning in 2001, Destito served as chairwoman of the Assembly Standing Committee on Governmental Operations, which provides legislative and budget oversight to the Office of General Services. Her experience on this committee gave Destito the unique opportunity to work with OGS on legislation related to procurement lobbying, energy policy, emergency contracting, and leasing transactions.

Commissioner Destito holds a degree in Industrial Relations from LeMoyne College. Prior to her election to the Assembly, she worked at the Muscular Dystrophy Association, SUNY College of Technology, and was president of the YWCA of the Mohawk Valley. Destito is the first woman to be confirmed as OGS Commissioner.

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John Thomas Flynn is the creator and host of TechLeader.TV - a Webcast on public sector information technology and politics - since 2006. John served as the first Chief Information Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of California, and is a former President of the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO). He also served as a White House Appointee in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations.

John is a co-founder and partner with Flynn, Kossick & Associates, a business consulting, research and training organization dedicated to serving both business and government with a focus on information technology investment, management, procurement and oversight in the public sector.

For two decades, he has been at the center of the renaissance to upgrade the public sector's management and utilization of its information technology assets. He has been a member of the U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Information Technology Advisory Board since 1995, focusing on the federal government's implementation of Clinger-Cohen Act which instituted CIO's in federal agencies. He is a member of the faculty at Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology, Sacramento Campus since 2008, and also taught at Northeastern University and Emmanuel College in Boston.

He has nearly two decades of private sector experience in systems integration and information technology marketing fields. An acknowledged leader and visionary, he has written and spoken extensively on effective government operations, and government's ability and capacity to successfully manage its information technology assets.

John has a bachelor's degree in economics from Boston College; studied economics and international relations at the University of Vienna, Austria; and has an MBA from The American University in Washington, DC.

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The Department's core mission is to efficiently collect tax revenues in support of state services while acting with integrity and fairness in the administration of the tax laws of New York State. Balancing efforts to promote voluntary compliance -- the cornerstone of the State's system of taxation -- with the duty to enforce New York's tax laws is a focal point of the Department's management strategy. The Department administers more than 40 state and local taxes and fees which requires the annual processing of 24 million tax returns and the collection and accounting of more than $95 billion in annual state and local revenue; other responsibilities include the State's treasury function. The Department's workforce of approximately 5,200 employees is based in Albany and district offices across the State, and its annual budget is $468 million.

Mr. Mattox previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Operational Risk Management, and Chief of Staff in the Controllers, and Finance and Resources Divisions.

Before joining Goldman Sachs & Co., Mr. Mattox was a Senior Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank where he led merger integration and business development initiatives in the Management Consulting Center and then Capital Market Fiduciary Services. He also served as a consultant at Monitor Company.

He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an M.B.A from Stanford University.

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Robert (Bob) Samson was General Manager of IBM's Global Public Sector since January 2006, responsible for sales of IBM solutions and technologies to government, education, healthcare and life sciences industries. He was also a member of the Company's senior management team, the Performance Team, comprised of the Company's top 40 senior executives. In addition he was a member of the Integration and Values team focused on living IBMs unique values in the marketplace.

In August 2009, Bob retired from IBM after 36 years.

Since Bob joined IBM in 1973 he has held sales management and executive positions in a number of US locations. He was named Vice President of State and Local Government in 1995, and Vice President
Public Sector for North, South and Central America in 1999. In January 2000 he moved to run the
Company's hardware business and was named Vice President Worldwide Sales and Operations for IBMs Storage Systems Group and in 2003 he was named group Vice President for Worldwide Systems Sales with global responsibility for server, storage, supercomputer and advanced technology sales.

In 2006 Mr. Samson returned to the Public Sector as the General Manager for Global Public Sector.
In May of 2006 Mr. Samson received a lifetime achievement award from Government VAR magazine in recognition of his many years of working with governments around the world. In April 2008, EWeek, CIO
Insight and Baseline named him one of the 100 most influential people in the technology industry. Mr.
Samson's most recent speech delivered at the National Defense University, "Challenges and
Opportunities the Power of Values to Change the World" appears in the September issue of VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY.

Currently, Bob owns a small business "The Lemon Tree" located in the Adirondack Park of NY State which specializes in a number of recreational sports products.

In January of 2010 Bob was named by New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo to the SAGE
Commission (Spending and Government Efficiency). While on the Commission Bob was named the Chairman of the Information Technology Subcommittee. In this role Bob helped lead the largest I/T transformation in New York State history which resulted in the creation of a new organization: Information Technology Services. Over 4000 members of the State I/T workforce moved to this organization in November of 2012 from the silos of agencies. This project is considered to be the largest and most successful State Government I/T transformation in the United States.

Mr. Samson is a graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He also completed the Program for Management Development (PMD60) at the Harvard Business School. He has served on the
Boards of Wake Forest Calloway/Babcock School of Business, the New York State Museum, Tech Valley
High School and the Deerfoot Lodge camp for boys. He is also on the board of nFrastructure an
Information Technology company located in Clifton Park, NY. Bob and his wife Linda live just outside of
Albany, NY. They have 3 children, Rob, Dan and Sarah as well as a daughter in laws Jennifer, Sarah and son in law Benjamin. Bob and Linda have 3 grandchildren, Emma, Henry and Layla.

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Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H., is the 15th New York State Commissioner of Health. He heads one of the nation's leading public health agencies with a budget of more than $50 billion, and administers the state's public health insurance programs, which cover 5 million New Yorkers. The Department also regulates hospitals and other health care facilities, conducts research in a premier biomedical laboratory, and supports public health and prevention initiatives.

A native of Buffalo, Dr. Shah is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Medicine. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA and a National Research Service Award Fellow at New York University. Before becoming Commissioner, he was Attending Physician at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, Associate Investigator at the Geisinger Center for Health Research in central Pennsylvania, and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Value and Comparative Effectiveness at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Dr. Shah has been a leading researcher in the use of large-scale clinical laboratories and electronic health records to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of care. He is a nationally recognized thought leader in patient safety and quality, comparative effectiveness, and the methods needed to transition to lower-cost, patient-centered health care for the 21st century.

His vision for New York is a state where every resident has access to affordable health insurance coverage, high quality care, and early screening and other services to prevent chronic disease and improve overall health.

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Aaron Shidler is Vice President Oracle Applications Development at Oracle. He is responsible for driving product strategy and product management for the Oracle Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions and Oracle CRM On Demand solutions, which consists of sales, service, marketing, and commerce applications available on premise or in the cloud. Mr. Shidler is also responsible for aligning the Siebel and CRM On Demand solutions to the customer experience portfolio. Prior to this role, Mr. Shidler was Vice President, Oracle Fusion Product Strategy, CRM, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Master Data Management (MDM) Applications.

A 20-year veteran of Customer Experience Solutions, Mr. Shidler joined Oracle through the acquisition of Siebel Systems in 2006. At Siebel, he was Group Director of CRM Products, where he led product management for a number of CRM applications.

Prior to Siebel, Mr. Shidler served as Vice President of Operations at Value America where he was responsible for Customer Support Applications, First Data Merchant services where he was AVP, Quality Assurance, and Federated Department Stores Credit Services where he held management positions in the Mail and Phone Order and Bankruptcy Departments.

Mr. Shidler holds a degree from the University of Cincinnati.

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