GSA
Gerard Badorrek is the Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and also serves as GSA's Performance Improvement Officer. He joined GSA in January 2015. In the last four years, Mr. Badorrek has completed a comprehensive transformation of GSA's Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). The effort included centralizing four budget organizations into an overall GSA Budget Office; creating new Performance Management and Analytics offices; and streamlining the Regional Financial Operations from 11 regions into 4 zones. These changes enabled standardized and efficient financial processes, improvement in performance levels and financial controls, and significant reduction in staffing and costs. The transformation also led to marked increases in OCFO employee engagement. Mr. Badorrek is currently leading GSA's enterprise efforts to shift workload from low-value to high-value (PMA Cap Goal 6), through the adoption of Robotics Process Automation(RPA) initiatives and implementation of a program to Eliminate, Optimize and Automate workload. Prior to this role in federal government, Mr. Badorrek spent 25 years in the private sector, including roles as a CFO and COO. He has an MBA degree from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, a Master's degree in Economics from Case Western Reserve University and Bachelor degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.