What Happened?
Washington, DC-based The White House has Appointed Karen L. Britton as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. The term White House is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers.
About the Person
Karen Britton was commissioned Special Assistant to the President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the Office of Administration (OA) at the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in December 2012. Ms. Britton manages the unclassified enterprise technology that supports the EOP, including the White House and the President of the United States. Ms. Britton previously served as OA’s Deputy CIO, where she transformed the EOP’s Information Technology (IT) workforce, stood up branches devoted to rapid application development and project management, and implemented quarterly governance reviews of the Office of the CIO’s performance metrics. Prior to joining the EOP, Ms. Britton worked for an IT consulting firm supporting the Department of Energy’s CIO in the areas of capital planning and enterprise architecture. She previously worked for the Naval Sea Systems Command as the Deputy Command Information Officer, managing the Command’s strategic planning, policy, and budget, as well as overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of its information systems. Ms. Britton is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a B.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. She holds a M.S Degree in Management from Florida Institute of Technology.
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