Procurement columnist Jonathan S. Aronie is a partner in the Government Contracts Practice Group of the Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton law firm in Washington, D.C. In his professional experience, Aronie has worked on litigation related to the False Claims Act, drafted corporate compliance plans, performed internal investigations and advised corporate clients about federal regulatory and statutory matters, such as Multiple Award Schedule Program issues.

He frequently represents clients before the Justice and Defense departments, Government Accountability Office, and General Services Administration. Aronie also counsels clients in classified matters national security matters.

Contact Aronie at jaronie@sheppardmullin.com.

On leave from his job as an Ivy League professor between 1993 and 1997, Steve Kelman ran the federal government's procurement shop. As administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Kelman had a prominent role in the Clinton administration's attempts to reinvent government. He led administration efforts supporting the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995.

Now Kelman is the Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Kelman, editor of the International Public Management Journal, has written extensively on the policy-making process and on improving the management of government organizations. His latest book, “Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Change in Government,” was published in 2005.

Contact Kelman at steve_kelman@harvard.edu.

Michael Lisagor founded Celerity Works in 1999 to help companies identify and eliminate barriers to government business growth acceleration and implement the organizational plans, procedures and processes necessary to ensure continued success in a rapidly changing public sector market. His clients have included agencies such as GSA's Federal Technology Service, theU.S. Senate and more than 30 government technology contractors.

Lisagor has more than 25 years' experience in the development and implementation of business and marketing strategies and in the management of complex technology and product development projects. Before starting his consulting practice, he held vice president positions at Advanced Technology Systems and was director of international sales at Martin Marietta's Information Systems Group. He has also developed sales and project management training programs for several companies. Lisagor has a master's degree in management and taught marketing for managers at National Louis University.

A 2002 Federal 100 winner, he is program chairman of the annual e-Gov Program Management Summit, co-founder of the Seattle WSA Business to Government Special Interest Group and co-chairman of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management emerging issues forum.

He is the author of the "Business Development Guide for Selling to the Government," available at www.celerityworks.com/business-books.html.

Contact Lisagor at lisagor@celerityworks.com.

Dave Nadler is a partner in the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro in Washington, D.C. He is an authority on federal, state and local government contract matters pertaining to the technology industry. 

Nadler represents technology manufacturers, distributors, systems integrators and resellers in federal, state and local government contract matters. His clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and include one of the world’s largest resellers of computer products, the leading manufacturer of local-area network software and a premier communications company. 

He is also chairman of the Industry Advisory Council’s Procurement & Acquisition Shared Interest Group and a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors.

Contact Nadler at (202) 828-2281 or nadlerd@dicksteinshapiro.com.

J. Timothy Sprehe is president of Sprehe Information Management Associates. Founded in 1991, the company advises federal agencies about the collection, processing, dissemination, storage and disposition of information. It also assists companies that deal with the federal government as a customer or data provider.

Before he retired from government in 1991, he was chief information policy spokesman for 10 years at the Office of Management and Budget. He authored the original OMB Circular A-130, the governmentwide policy directive on the management of federal information resources. Through his many articles and speeches, Sprehe has become a nationally known intellectual leader on federal information policy issues.

Contact Sprehe at jtsprehe@jtsprehe.com.

Work life columnist Judy Welles worked in the federal government for 30 years, including stints at the departments of Interior and Health and Human Services, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, where she was director of public affairs.

She has been a reporter for newspapers in New York and Virginia and was work life editor at PlanetGov.com. Welles has been a board member of Executive Women in Government and the Public Employees Roundtable. She has won a National Association of Government Communicators award.

Contact Welles at judywelles@fcw.com.