Biography

Clay Goldwein is the NSJ business unit leader and Senior Vice President at CGI, where he leads the development and execution of the business and solutions strategy for a diverse client portfolio within national security and justice agencies. CGI is an independent IT and business consulting services firm with 90,000 consultants and professionals worldwide. The firm delivers a range of services, including strategic IT and business consulting, systems integration, managed IT and business process services, and intellectual property solutions.

Previously, Goldwein led the U.S. Department of Homeland Security account, where he was responsible for the strategy and execution of DHS projects. Throughout his career, Goldwein has been a leader in IT modernization, cloud and cybersecurity. His notable accomplishments include standing up CGI’s cloud under the U.S. General Services Administration’s Infrastructure as a Service Blanket Purchase Agreement, and achieving one of the first Authority to Operate designations by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Goldwein also served as a Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation project manager, serving seven agencies. He was responsible for achieving an aggressive two-year schedule implementing a credential management solution at 26 federal agencies under the CDM program. His prior work spans a range of federal, state, and commercial customers across various domains and technical areas. Goldwein holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University and is a certified Project Management Professional. He holds two United States patents for an environmental permit web portal.