Stuart McGuigan, former chief information officer of Johnson & Johnson, has been appointed as CIO of the State Department and head of the Bureau of Information Resource Management, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. McGuigan will replace acting CIO Karen Mummaw, who will retire in April after 31 years of service at State.
“Every aspect of the department’s information technology capabilities and operations now falls under Stuart’s oversight, including architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data management, software, and application development and acquisition,†said State Secretary Mike Pompeo.Â
McGuigan will be the agency’s first permanent CIO since Frontis Wiggins left the position in 2017. He’s joining the federal government after seven years with Johnson & Johnson, where he oversaw the company’s IT strategy and operations around the world. McGuigan was CIO and senior vice president at CVS Caremark and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group.
Sources said the State Department plans to name Michael Mestrovich, technical director of the Technical Services Office at CIA, as principal deputy CIO next month.
