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Harry Herington is the CEO of NIC. early 20 years ago, he helped transform NIC from a small start-up to a national company, as he puts it ''before the internet was cool,'' with a vision to harness technologies to improve citizen and business interactions with government. As the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Mr. Herington leads the Company as it works with more than 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies, and has developed thousands of digital government services that make government interactions more transparent, efficient, convenient, and mobile. Under his leadership, NIC has grown to become a nationally respected company, and has repeatedly ranked on Forbes' list of the ''100 Best Small Companies in America.'' His management philosophy has been featured this year in the New York Times, Forbes, and Entrepreneur magazines.

Sean Allen is co-founder and the CEO of BMC Group, an international information management and professional services firm that supports the legal, financial, corporate, and medical industries. Sean built the company based on the premise that the processes supporting legal, medical and corporate industry could be streamlined through advanced technology. Project planning and state-of-the-art technology is now applied to BMC's consultative service lines of bankruptcy, class action, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, investor communications and clinical trials. Sean has served as an expert witness in accident reconstruction and product liability. He has consulted within a cross-section of industries including automotive, financial services, manufacturing, medical, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. Sean is also a professional race car driver competing in the Speed GT World Challenge in a Porsche GT3 and the on the Historic Grand Prix circuit in the McLaren M30 Formula 1.

Charles L. Evans (born January 15, 1958) is the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Federal Reserve System's monetary policy-making body.