Paul Garrett
Chief Technology Officer
Paul Garrett, an expert in cross-organization information sharing, joined The Ashcroft Group as its Chief Technology Officer in January 2009.
Garrett’s 16-year management and technology consulting background includes thirteen years in the private sector designing and deploying case management, financial management and intelligence systems. For the past eight years, he has focused primarily on intelligence and law enforcement solutions and knows that with better access to data, local, state, and federal governments can keep our streets safer. Garrett is well known in the law enforcement and homeland security communities for his work connecting criminal intelligence systems and advocating for open standards.
From 2006 to 2009, Garrett served as Special Assistant to the Department of Justice Chief Information Officer. He reported directly to the CIO, coordinating initiatives to transform the Department’s multi-billion-dollar information technology infrastructure in support of its national security, law enforcement, and management improvement missions. At Justice, Garrett worked on many inter-agency working groups that changed policy and practices in order to improve sharing capabilities.
Prior to government service, Garrett was a consultant and project manager for various system integrators in the Washington, DC area.
Garrett played basketball at Stanford University where he participated in two NCAA tournaments. After graduating, he pursued a brief professional basketball career in Sweden before moving to Washington, DC. Today, Garrett regularly speaks to audiences focused on fusion centers and the movement of data from local to federal agencies and vice-versa.
Garrett joined the Ashcroft Group because the team shares his belief that government can get results and works together to assess how best to help clients find new opportunities, partners, and success.
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