Speakers

Paul Roetzer is founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and founder of Ready North (formerly PR 20/20), HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of Marketing Artificial Intelligence (Matt Holt Books, 2022) The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). As a speaker, Roetzer is focused on making AI approachable and actionable for marketers and business leaders. A graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Roetzer has consulted for hundreds of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Lou Anne Brossman is CEO and founder of Government Marketing University. Her passion for “bringing clarity to the clutter in government marketing” drove her to found GMarkU. Lou Anne has over 35 years of public sector government marketing leadership experience gained while working for some of the leading companies in the market (Juniper Networks, immixGroup, EMC). She is a customer-centric, solution-oriented marketer. She has in-depth knowledge of product and services branding, communications and strategic planning and is committed to increasing client’s competitiveness, market share and profitability.

She is a sought-out speaker on Government Marketing Best Practices and is well recognized and respected for her ability to drive Thought Leadership campaigns on relevant federal, state and local government policies and mandates. Lou Anne has served on numerous boards including immixGroup and Trezza Media and was a founding member of the Women’s Center Executive Council. Lou Anne was honored with the Heroines in Technology award presented by Women in Technology and she was the recipient of the ACT IAC Dedication to Making a Difference award. In 2017 Lou Anne was a finalist for “2017 Women Business Owner of the Year” in the National Association of Women Business Owners and was named a “2017 Trending 40 Federal Entrepreneurs and Innovators.

Born into media, Jeffrey Wolinsky grew up in a family-owned and operated full-service advertising agency where marketing and advertising were part of the menu at the dinner table. For the past 20 years he has worked with hundreds of local and national companies on creative media concepts and execution. Jeffrey currently the Publisher for Federal News Network, leading the overall products mission and vision as well as serving a sales lead role for WTOP and 2060 digital. WTOP is the number-one revenue-producing radio station in the country and has evolved from a radio station into a digital news organization that currently provides outreach to its massive radio, digital, and social audiences. In addition, it offers external digital services to its clients so that WTOP can provide marketing services beyond its proprietary audience, helping clients target any audience through digital marketing. Jeffrey has delivered 3 main stage original speeches at GAIN, the premier event for Government Marketers from the Government Marketing University and has been featured on numerous podcasts as well as part of many panel discussions. He’s a certified facilitator of the creative problem-solving process and a five-time finalist and 2013 winner of the National Sales Manager of the Year Award presented by Radio Ink, a leading trade publication. A graduate of University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Jeffrey coaches youth sports and cheers on Maryland basketball; he brings his three sons to as many of their games as possible.

As the Cyber Technology Officer, Mr. Thomas advises the Commander on all aspects of intelligence, cyber and related technologies, working with intelligence, cyber and science and technology organizations to generate and ensure the integrity of capabilities, concepts, policies, operational programs, studies and training that support and enable Marine Corps maneuver in the cyberspace. He works to enable cyber and intelligence focused compute and store, collaboration, access control and identity management, data encryption and governance. He leads defensive cyber operations for the hybrid cloud environment and champions setting the conditions to adopt and implement principles of zero trust. He supports leading the USMC risk management framework modernization efforts and creates opportunities for emerging technology needed for connected and denied disrupted and intermittent environments. He leads enabling cyber and intelligence for compute and store, collaboration, access control and identity management, data encryption and governance creating use of processes, tools, techniques and protocols for proactive network resiliency and command and control with data driven decision making. Mr. Thomas demonstrates his passion for talent management through partnerships with industry, academia, institutions, and federal agencies.

Prior to Mr. Thomas’ assignment at MARFORCYBER, he served as the Chief Acquisition and Financial Officer for Network Cross Functional Team, Army Futures Command. He was responsible for the focused integration of network, command, control, communications, and intelligence to enable mission command across the Army’s tactical network through transport
agnostic, data centric, modern security architecture and Cyber Electro-Magnetic Dominance. Mr.
Thomas had oversight of a diverse team responsible for resource management, portfolio
integration, market research, contracting, logistics and sustainment for the coordination and
direction of the development of long-term acquisition strategies.

Previously, he has served as Chief Engineer and Chief of Technical Management at Project
Manager Distributed Common Ground Systems – Army, Fielding and Training. He developed
long-term strategies for technology research, investment, integration, and fielding of the Army’s
cornerstone intelligence system for sensor tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination
(PED) at all echelons.

Mr. Thomas began his career as a Department of Defense civilian with the Communications-
Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC) where he led research projects on Network Robustness and developed Cyber Offensive Operations techniques. He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps and subsequently held acquisition positions including information assurance engineer, lead systems engineer and Assistant Program Manager within the Army and including a joint duty assignment at the International Programs Office. He has also served as a Strategic Initiative Officer at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Acquisition Logistics and Technology.

Mr. Thomas holds a Master of Engineering in Telecommunications from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Economics from Rutgers University along with several technical certificates. He is a graduate of the OPM Senior Leadership program in Organization Leadership. He holds Defense Acquisition University Level III certification in both program management and systems engineering. His leadership philosophy is to exemplify integrity, agility, humility, and have a people first approach. He strives to be approachable, provide unity and collaboration, and sound judgment.

In his leisure time, Shery enjoys traveling, reading books to increase his knowledge base, sports/exercise, being an active leader within his church and community, and spending time with family and friends.

Maria A Roat became the Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer in May 2020, bringing 35+ years of professional experience in information technology.

Ms. Roat served as the Small Business Administration Chief Information Officer October 2016 – May 2020 where she led SBA’s digital transformation to a more proactive and innovative enterprise services organization responsive to the business technology needs of SBA program offices and small businesses & entrepreneurs across the United States. 

Ms. Roat served more than 2 years as the U.S. Department of Transportation Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for establishing and leading DOTs technical vision and strategic direction, driving innovation and planning for technology growth supporting internal and external facing mission activities.

Ms. Roat served 10 years at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joining in June 2004 and serving in a number of capacities including Federal Risk Management and Authorization Program (FedRAMP) Director, FEMA Deputy CIO, Chief of Staff for the DHS CIO, USCIS Chief Information Security Officer and CIO Chief of Staff, and Deputy Director, Technology Development, for TSA’s Secure Flight Program.   

Prior to joining DHS in 2004, Ms. Roat was in the private sector for 5 years deploying and managing global enterprise network management systems, as well as running Network and Security Operations Centers.

Ms. Roat was previously with the Navy Medical Information Management Command, Norfolk, and other Commands serving in the areas of global enterprise network management and engineering, and IT operations.

Ms. Roat retired from the U.S. Navy in 2007, with 26 years of active duty and reserve service, in which she obtained the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer, Information Systems Technician.  Ms. Roat served in numerous leadership positions including Command Master Chief for the Reserve Intelligence Area Washington (2002-2005) and the Center for Navy Leadership Mid-Atlantic (2005-2007). 

Ms. Roat is a graduate of the University of Maryland (UMUC), Harvard Business School Executive Education Program for Leadership Development, and the Navy Senior Enlisted Academy. 

Kim leads the U.S. Federal, SLED, Healthcare, and East Enterprise Marketing teams at Nutanix, the San Jose-based software-as-a-service company behind the industry’s leading hyperconverged infrastructure platform. In her role she drives strategy and execution of demand generation, awareness, and thought leadership programs. Throughout her career, Kim has authored a variety of innovative marketing initiatives, including VMware's Government & Education Innovation Summit, the Virtualization Expert and Federal IT Challenge programs on WTOP and a Federal Evangelist Development program that was instrumental in bringing the power of virtualization to U.S. government customers all over the world. When asked about her 20+ years working with high-performance sales teams, she has this to say, "Working with sales teams as a trusted advisor is the most rewarding and exciting place to be in a sales-driven organization. I have been lucky to work with some of the very best servant-oriented people in IT throughout my career."

Prior to Nutanix, Kim worked in both the vendor and agency communities, building successful government marketing programs at VMware, Hewlett Packard, Peregrine Systems, and BMC Software and working with IT and government clients as part of Ogilvy Public Relations and ENC Marketing. She began her professional career at Arthur Andersen, where she was responsible for relationship marketing, as well as marketing for the Real Estate, Financial Services and Healthcare practices.

As the CTO of Clarity Innovations, Paul Puckett is responsible for the strategic vision for mission enabling cybersecurity, engineering and data products and services. Paul has previously served in the Senior Executive Service of the DoD and as  a civilian in the Intelligence Community driving outcomes along the digital transformation journey of the federal government. From incepting DevOps and Continuous ATOs in the DoD/IC for the most secure and contested environments worldwide, to catalyzing and leading the global cloud modernization of the world’s third largest organization; Paul loves shaping unique blends of people, process and technology to support the National Security Strategy of the United States and our allies

Juliana Slye is the Founder and CEO of Government Business Results (GBR), a nationwide firm headquartered in Virginia. Tech companies rely on GBR for the Go-To-Market services (strategy, marketing, content, enablement) and staffing support they need to more effectively market and sell to government agencies. Recently, GBR was named one of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc.

Juliana has 20 years of experience helping tech companies achieve success in the government markets. Her career roles in the government industry included field marketing, sales, product management, product marketing and business management.   Prior to founding GBR in 2010, she was responsible for running the global government industry teams, including business strategy, marketing, enablement and solutions, for tech titans Autodesk, Adobe, Macromedia and Silicon Graphics (SGI). Juliana is actively involved in National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA), where she serves in in various leadership roles.  She is a sought-after speaker, and regularly delivers training, seminars and panels on government marketing and business growth topics.

With 10+ years of experience, Molly is a Director of Marketing at Carahsoft, the trusted government IT solutions provider. With a passion for strategic marketing and a keen understanding of market dynamics, Molly has played an integral role in driving Carahsoft's marketing initiatives. Her ability to transform challenges into opportunities and her knack for forging meaningful connections make her a respected leader.

Outside of her professional accomplishments, Molly finds joy in her personal life as a wife and mother of two children.