Guy Cavallo

Golden Gov: Federal Executive of the Year

Guy Cavallo has been the Office of Personnel Management’s top information technology official since July 2021 where he’s led the agency’s modernization efforts and migration to the cloud. Before joining OPM in 2020 as a principal deputy CIO, Cavallo served as deputy CIO at the Small Business Administration where he led efforts to use the cloud to implement the pandemic-era Payroll Protection Program and its Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs. Earlier in his career, Cavallo worked at Microsoft for over nine years and as TSA’s executive director for IT Operations. In a discussion with Scoop News Group earlier this year, Cavallo said to be a model employer it’s important the federal government supports hybrid work. An initiative he started, for example, allowed workers to work remotely with the same technologies that they would have in the office as well as the ability for workers to use their OPM phone numbers via the internet.