The Small Business Administration has hit Hartley Caldwell, which seems to be a long -standing private sector Fintech and IT executiveAs a new information director, according to the agency website.
Douglas Robertson, the assistant IOC of the SBA and director of technology, was the acting IOC. Caldwell, which is also listed on the CIO.GOV The membership page did not respond to a request for comments in publication times.
Caldwell’s most recent role, by his Linkedin pagewas like the World Bank CIO to FISERV, a fintech and payment company previously managed by Frank Bisignanothe newly confirmed commissioner of Social Security Administration. Caldwell also held posts with Citi, E * Trade and IBM.
Caldwell is at least the third IOC to serve in the IT position of SBA since the start of the Trump administration. Marcus Alzona, an actively involved technological business manager in the republican policy of Maryland, held the role of a few weeks before the references to him have been somewhat sporadically deleted From the SBA website.
Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Committee for Small Businesses, wrote At the White House in January on computer issues and the importance of having a solid director of information at the agency. Asked about Alzona’s release, Ernst told Fedscoop that she was “the administrator (SBA) (Kelly) Loeffler puts the best people in place so that SBA works more efficiently and more efficiently for small businesses.”
There has been an important turnover in the role of the IOC throughout the federal government. THE Social Security AdministrationTHE Treasury Departmentand the Energy department all named new – and in some cases, several – New CIO in recent weeks.