Governor Appoints Chad Kirkpatrick as Agency Head.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer today named Chad Kirkpatrick a the Director of the Government Information Technology Agency ( GITA).

The conservative community is familiar with Kirkpatrick, he served as Chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Arizona, a group he helped grow into one of Arizona's largest grassroots organizations.

Mr. Kirkpatrick's appointment as Director of GITA, places him at the helm of an agency created in 1996 to serve as Arizona's official entity for strategic planning and coordination of all state information technology. He will oversee day-to-day operations of: IT coordination and planning, IT project review and monitoring, and maintenance of e-government.

Kirkpatrick comes to state government service from Wells Fargo, where he has served since 2003, most recently as Vice President and Business Systems Manager of Compliance Services MIS (Management Information Services). While with Wells Fargo, he created the "MIS Roadmap" to assess the current MIS environment, identify MIS goals and develop an action plan to align technology and business needs. He was also responsible for: fully automating the business process for regulatory compliance testing, managing the Information Security process for the Phoenix location; developing an innovative data analysis program to proactively identify potential regulatory issues, tracking corrective action and delivering critical information to the compliance team; working with the finance, operations and marketing teams to develop the next generation of reporting and leading corporate efforts to create common data definitions and corporate reporting standards. He has won two Leadership Excellence Awards: Team Leadership and the annual Excellence in Action Award as well as the 19 Legendary Service awards.

Mr. Kirkpatrick received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from George Washington University and his Master of Arts in Applied Economics from American University.

Governor Brewer said, "Mr. Kirkpatrick is widely respected and recognized in his field and possesses a unique blend and broad range of technical and leadership skills,"

Chad Kirkpatrick is currently a GOP Precinct Committeemen in LD 6.