Tom Acklen
Tom has a degree in Business Administration from Marywood University. He is one of the founding Principals in Government Partners. Government Partners, LLC was merged with Adams & Zottarelli in March 2005.

Tom was previously the Director of Marketing and Senior Consultant for a marketing consulting company in Austin for over 5 years. In this capacity he represented clients to enhance their business revenue and assisted in developing both state and nationwide plans for marketing their products and services. Tom was the Deputy Commissioner of Management Information Systems (CIO) at the Texas Department of Human Services and provided legislative support for both program and technology issues. Previous experience in state government was for Accenture and Bull Information Systems. At Bull Tom developed nationwide programs that he marketed to state government.

Tom has many years of Federal Government experience in the Department of Veteran Affairs where he served as Director of the Austin Automation Center and Finance Center and the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Information Technology and Telecommunications in Washington D.C.

Industry Leadership:
Mr. Acklen was the President of the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications, Board Member of the American Public Welfare Association, Chair of the Government Technology Conference, Government Technology Vendor Advisory Board and a member of the National Association of Chief Information Officers.

Tom can be reached at:
Email: tom@governmentpartnersllc.com
Phone: 512-589-7685

Paul Fairbrother
Paul has a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas with a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. He was one of the founding Principals in Government Partners. Government Partners, LLC was merged with Adams & Zottarelli in March 2005.

Paul started his career at a Texas State agency in a technical position. He then moved on serving as an aide to U.S. Congressman Jack Pickle. This provided the inner workings of knowledge of the federal government. He also worked as an aide to the Austin City Manager John Ware coordinating issues between the city manager and members of the Austin City council and provided him a detailed level of knowledge in city government. Paul received his detail knowledge of state government when he became Chief-of-Staff to Texas State Senator Cyndie Krier. Paul gained an extensive network of contacts in the Legislature and when Senator Krier retired he began his career in marketing consulting and lobby work in front of the Texas Legislature with an emphasis on procurement issues, technology, health care and the appropriations process.

Industry Leadership:
Mr. Fairbrother has become an acknowledged leader on technology issues in Texas State government and has become a resource to the leadership of the Texas Legislature as well as most of the major state agencies. In addition Paul founded the Texas Technology Association and is known for the last 14 years for his excellent management of the Government Technology Conference and activities associated with the conference such as the founding of the Conference's Bob Bullock award.

Paul can be reached at:
Email: paul@governmentpartnersllc.com
Phone: 512-470-9988

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