{"id":36181,"date":"2020-10-21T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/?p=36181"},"modified":"2020-10-21T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:25:58","slug":"michigan-taps-cio-to-lead-tech-and-budget-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/michigan-taps-cio-to-lead-tech-and-budget-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan taps CIO to lead tech and budget department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this week promoted state Chief Information Officer Brom Stibitz to also serve as the director of the Department of Technology, Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Whitmer said Stibitz&#8217;s management of the Michigan government&#8217;s IT needs through the COVID-19 pandemic made him the &#8220;right person&#8221; to lead the department, which also oversees the state&#8217;s procurement and budgeting processes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brom has done an incredible job ensuring our 48,464 state employees have the right tools and technology they need to keep serving the people of Michigan as we battle a global pandemic,&#8221; Whitmer said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31067\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31067\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-31067\" src=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/bron-stibitz-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michigan CIO Brom Stibitz (State of Michigan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stibitz,\u00a0who first joined the Michigan state government as a legislative aide in 2005, had served as DTMB&#8217;s chief deputy director since 2015. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/michigan-promotes-bron-stibitz-longtime-technology-deputy-to-long-vacant-cio-role\/\">named full-time CIO in March<\/a>, shortly before the coronavirus first spiked in Michigan. At the time, he also became DTMB&#8217;s acting head, after the agency&#8217;s previous director, Tricia Foster, moved into Whitmer&#8217;s office as the state&#8217;s new chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the March shake-up, Foster, a former real-estate executive and longtime associate of Whitmer&#8217;s, led DTMB, but did not simultaneously serve as CIO. Those duties had been split among a group of officials that included Stibitz,\u00a0Chief Technology Officer Jack Harris and then-Chief Security Officer Chris DeRusha, who has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/biden-campaign-ciso-chris-derusha\/\">joined former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As DTMB&#8217;s director and Michigan&#8217;s chief information officer, Stibitz will become a full member of Whitmer&#8217;s Cabinet. The last person to hold both roles was Dave DeVries, who served under Whitmer&#8217;s predecessor, Rick Snyder, <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/michigan-cio-dave-devries-steps-down-as-new-governor-takes-office\/\">until his 2018 retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than seven months into the health crisis, many Michigan state employees continue to work remotely, a condition that&#8217;s tested \u2014 and raised the profiles of \u2014 state IT departments nationwide. <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/cios-hope-pandemic-gives-tech-permanent-seat-at-the-table\/\">In a recent webcast<\/a> featuring other Midwestern CIOs, Stibitz reflected on how the health crisis has improved the perception of his agency around the rest of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn the past, maybe they looked at IT and said here\u2019s a tool,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the last six months, it\u2019s really changed to say this is an essential part of our business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Gretchen Whitmer praised CIO Brom Stibitz&#8217;s management of the state&#8217;s IT needs during the pandemic in naming him to lead an agency that also oversees the state budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":31875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_grayscale_images":true,"grayscale_contrast":0,"sponsored_content":false,"display_author_bio":true,"story_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4677],"tags":[66,160,531,5128,6810],"people":[],"special-report":[],"authors":[4697],"class_list":["post-36181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-chief-information-officer-cio","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-department-of-technology-management-and-budget","tag-gretchen-whitmer","tag-brom-stibitz","author-benjamin-freed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v24.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michigan taps CIO to lead tech and budget department | StateScoop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/michigan-taps-cio-to-lead-tech-and-budget-department\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michigan taps CIO to lead tech and budget department | StateScoop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gov. 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