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Dwight Boddorf is the borough manager of Tarentum, Pennsylvania. Tarentum, which is home to nearly 5,000 residents, is a Pittsburgh suburb along the Allegheny River. Boddorf is a military veteran.

GoldenGov: City Executive of the Year

Collin Hill is the chief information officer for the consolidated city and county of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. In this role, Hill leads the city’s Information Services Agency and works across more than 45 local government agencies and departments on the city’s technology priorities.

GoldenGov: City Executive of the Year

Rob Lloyd is the chief technology officer for the city of Seattle, Washington. Prior to the role in Seattle, Lloyd was the Deputy City Manager with oversight of Transportation, Aviation, and Technology services, and before that Chief Information Officer.

GoldenGov: City Executive of the Year

Eugene Mejia is the chief information officer for the city of Gilbert, Arizona. Before becoming the city’s IT lead, Mejia was the Chief AI Strategy & Transformation Officer for the city, where he lead artificial intelligence efforts. Before that, Mejia worked as the city’s assistant chief technology officer.

GoldenGov: City Executive of the Year

Chris Seidt is the director of Louisville, Kentucky’s information technology office. Seidt has spent the past 20 years in a variety of roles across the city.

GoldenGov: County Executive of the Year

Ed Althof is the chief technology officer for Orange County, California. Before joining the county in 2022, Althof was a deputy CIO for Ventura County, California, as well as a community services commissioner for the city of Mission Viejo, California.

GoldenGov: County Executive of the Year

Matt Harrison is the chief technology officer of Fairfax County, Virginia, and the director of the county’s information technology department. Before Fairfax County, Harrison served as director of information technology for Stafford County, where he led successful updates to critical IT operations, including the rollout of modernized Wi-Fi services across government and public safety locations, infrastructure upgrades and the deployment of advanced Microsoft applications and cloud services.

Bio courtesy of FairfaxCounty.gov

GoldenGov: County Executive of the Year

Bob Leek is the chief information officer for Clark County, Nevada. In the role, Leek leads the county’s IT team of nearly 200 employees and drives the county to innovate and efficiently deliver solutions. Leek comes to the role after more than 30 years experience in IT in both the public and private sectors.

GoldenGov: County Executive of the Year

Archie Satchell is the chief information officer of Palm Beach County, Florida. Satchell has worked in various technology roles for Palm Beach County since 1991. Before becoming the county’s CIO, Satchell was a deputy CIO and served in a variety of director roles.

GoldenGov: County Executive of the Year

Juan Torres is the Chief Information Officer for the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, the largest County in the State of Ohio. As CIO, he provides leadership, budgeting, and technology strategy to 14 county agencies supporting 1,400 employees. He is a trusted advisor on technology initiatives and solutions for elected officials of Franklin County.

Bio courtesy of the National Association of Counties

Local IT Leader of the Year

Stacy Beatty, Jr. has revolutionized how New York City delivers thousands of public-facing campaigns through dynamic leadership and cutting-edge technology. As Director of Creative Services at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Beatty led the integration of AI tools that significantly streamlined large-scale content production. His efforts doubled project capacity and cut design time by 75%, enabling his 10-person team to efficiently deliver campaigns for 80+ DCAS agencies – including major initiatives like the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence. By championing generative AI, Stacy empowered his team to focus on ideation rather than repetitive edits, enabling rapid iteration across 2,000 LinkNYC displays, 1,500 kiosks, social media and print – while keeping security a top priority. Stacy’s commitment to innovation has not only modernized creative workflows, but also strengthened NYC’s ability to engage its 8 million citizens in real time.

Local IT Leader of the Year

Tim Haynes is the chief data officer for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Haynes has worked within the city of Philadelphia’s information technology office since 2015, in various data and geospatial information systems roles.

Local IT Leader of the Year

Pam O’Grady is the deputy director of Columbus, Ohio’s department of technology. O’Grady worked alongside Columbus leadership in responding to a 2024 ransomware attack. O’Grady has spent more than two decades with the city, and has been with in the IT department since 2017.

Local IT Leader of the Year

Shin-pei Tsay is the chief research and data officer for the city of Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to this role, Tsay also serves as the executive director for the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. 

Before joining the City of Boston, Tsay served as the global policy director for Cities and Sustainability at Uber. She also founded Make Public, a social impact analysis firm, and was the executive director of the Gehl Institute, a research nonprofit dedicated to creating more equitable, healthy, and vibrant public spaces.

Bio courtesy of Boston.gov

Local IT Innovation of the Year

Anchorage has had some really heavy winter snow falls over the last few years. The Municipality of Anchorage is close to the size of Delaware and has roads maintained by the city and the State of Alaska. The city’s innovation team leveraged existing traffic cameras at intersections from 511 to make a mobile-friendly way for people to see the road conditions after a heavy snow. This allows residents to better plan and more safely travel around Anchorage.

Local IT Innovation of the Year

As a historically rural community that is rapidly evolving, Seguin, Texas, has built its tech ecosystem over time through patient, systemic, and deliberate actions via limited funding while juggling competing needs. Through the implementation of a new systems architecture and adjoining robust backup solution, Seguin vastly reduced its exposure and risk to ransomware and other cyber threats. With 17,000 homes in development and a 30 percent population increase since 2020, innovation has been heavily utilized to meet the demands of this fast-growing community. As more technology is deployed and utilized, it has become paramount to protect the city from operational disruption. While always problematic, downtime variables greatly multiply when unprecedented growth is underway potentially impacting the needs of new citizens, homes, and businesses.

Local IT Innovation of the Year

Led by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, the transformative work on the Office of Unified Communications 311 Migration Project has redefined how DC residents access city services. By evolving DC311 into a modern, AI-powered platform, OCTO introduced intelligent call routing, automated agent evaluations, and real-time citizen feedback—making services faster, smarter, and more responsive. A new Workforce Management system and advanced performance dashboards empower staff development and ensure high-quality service. These innovations not only improve the resident experience but set a new standard for transparency, efficiency, and excellence in local government service delivery.