The FBI's IT Leadership Bench

The FBI may be unique among federal agencies, with both its CIO and CTO coming from Wall Street, but the bureau's tech leadership has deep experience in FBI operations and government intelligence.

Chad Fulgham oversees the FBI's information and technology branch as CIO and executive assistant director. His counterpart in the science and technology branch, which includes the laboratory division and the FBI's effort to apply emerging technologies, is executive assistant director Louis Grever.

Dean Hall, deputy CIO of the IT branch, came to the FBI in 2002 from the CIA, where he was chief scientist for information security programs. He works with Fulgham on strategic planning, fiscal management, and operations.

The FBI created the office of the chief knowledge officer in 2007. CKO Clayton Grigg, a 13-year bureau veteran and former special agent, facilitates information sharing within the FBI and with other intelligence agencies. Since that office was formed, the FBI has hired a data architect, enterprise knowledge architect, enterprise knowledge engineer, and enterprise knowledge librarian to support those efforts.

Daniel Dubree is assistant director of the FBI IT branch's recently created services division, responsible for operations of all FBI IT systems worldwide. Dubree joined the agency as a programmer in 1984 and, among his assignments, was deputy program manager for the FBI's Sentinel case management system project for 18 months until September 2008.

Jeffrey Johnson was promoted to CTO of the FBI in December. Johnson, like CIO Fulgham, worked in IT at Lehman Brothers before joining the FBI. Johnson is also assistant director of the IT branch's IT engineering division, where he oversees development of IT projects.

John Martin Hope leads project management as assistant director in the IT branch's IT management division. As program management executive for the FBI, Hope added oversight measures such as performance metrics and risk registers.