Name: Paul Tatum
Title: Senior Vice President of Solution Engineering and CTO
Company: Salesforce
The performance booster. As agencies work to achieve IT modernization goals, Tatum is helping them deploy technologies such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, chatbots and software as a service. Last year, he helped a civilian agency design and deploy a portal that supports self-service access to loan applications and status inquiries for 10,000 users in 2,100 offices. He also worked with the U.S. Postal Service, the General Services Administration and the departments of Agriculture, State and Veterans Affairs. Tatum’s customers have realized $5 million to $25 million in cost savings as a result of replacing legacy technology with modern tools.