Miriam Ingenito, a ‘Public Servant at Heart,’ Takes Director Role With KPMG

Miriam Ingenito, a longtime executive in California state government, has left the public sector and taken a role in private industry.

Ingenito, who most recently served as undersecretary of the California Government Operations Agency (GovOps), is now the director of account relations for KPMG, a global network of professional firms providing advisory, audit and tax services.
“I am really excited about this opportunity at KPMG,” Ingenito told Industry Insider — California via email, “because the culture and approach that KPMG has truly aligns with my personal values of integrity, excellence and courage to take on hard issues. I like that the company has a client promise where they are truly committed to making their clients — in my case, the state of California — succeed in its mission of serving the people. My experience, while I was with the state, was always that KPMG is collaborative and develops solutions with the public sector. I always saw them as a partner.”

Ingenito brings decades of state leadership experience to her new role, having worked as a committee consultant for the California state Senate; a fiscal and policy analyst for the Legislative Analyst’s Office; assistant secretary for Policy and Program Analysis for the California Natural Resources Agency; principal consultant for the state Senate’s Committee on Appropriations; deputy director for legislation for the California Department of Finance; deputy secretary for environmental policy for the California Environmental Protection Agency; chief deputy director for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control; and, from 2015 until her move to GovOps in August 2022, as director of the Financial Information System for California.

She told Industry Insider — California that her new role will have her working more to provide state government with solutions to its technology needs.

“One of my greatest joys in life has been to serve the people of California and to say ‘yes’ to the hardest jobs,” Ingenito said. “I am a public servant at heart, and I am looking forward to continuing to help California government in its service to the people.”

Having worked with industry for much of her career, Ingenito is familiar with technology procurement. In an October 2021 One-on-One interview with Industry Insider, she offered her outlook on how government purchases goods and services from the private sector.

“I think great strides have been made in terms of IT procurement,” she said then. “Cal eProcure, the state’s online marketplace, has improved the experience of businesses selling products and services to the state of California by giving businesses access to bidding and contracting resources in one location. In addition, California state government as a whole has made great progress in streamlining IT procurement, and I look forward to the California Department of Technology and the California Department of General Services continuing those efforts.”

Ingenito’s departure from state government coincides with other changes in her personal life.

“I am blessed to have two incredible daughters who are both in college now — one at CalPoly SLO and one at CalPoly Pomona — so we are empty-nesters, which opened the door for me to try something new,” she said. “I love to travel and am looking forward to more of that in the weeks and months to come. I love to garden and have quite a green thumb. It gives me great joy to literally see the fruits (and vegetables) of my labors.”