Rock Regan, Connecticut’s state CIO from 1997 through 2005, has joined Qlik as manager of the company’s SLED/Healthcare Alliance operation. Regan, who has a national portfolio of responsibilities, will join Scott Morris, director of SLED West sales, in driving Tier One partnerships throughout California.
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“I’m very excited to join the Qlik SLED and Healthcare team to focus on Alliance partnerships in California and across the country,” Regan told Industry Insider —California. “I have had the pleasure to serve 10 years in state government, almost eight as a state CIO, and then moving on to the private sector, where I have focused specifically on helping governments become more efficient and effective in their important mission.”
Regan continued: “In my new role with Qlik, I am focused on partners. Alliance partners play such a key role in helping governments solve their most challenging problems. As governments strive to be data-driven, Qlik has the platform to help our partners make governments data literate across their entire workforce, not just for data scientists (in short supply).”
Regan said Qlik is “right in the middle of helping governments access all their data and transform it into analytics-ready consumable information.” He said his role includes ensuring that Qlik’s partners “know what Qlik is doing to be successful in this space, such as our recent announcements: ‘Qlik Cloud Enables U.S. Healthcare Organizations to Leverage Cloud Data for Improved Patient Outcomes’ and ‘Qlik Achieves FedRAMP Authorization for its Cloud Analytics Platform.’”
Regan said his priorities are “to continue to enable our current partners and to recruit additional partners in California and nationally with SLED practices to help their customers get the most out of their data.”
In California, Qlik’s state government projects include the California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS), an automated, integrated eligibility and case management system that supports key public assistance programs on a cloud-hosted architecture.
In addition to his service as Connecticut’s state CIO, Regan served as president of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers in 2001-2002. On the industry side, his previous private-sector affiliations include VMware, Verizon Business, Pitney Bowes, Kronos Inc. (now UKG) and, most recently, Precisely.
Regan is an alumnus of Saint Louis University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering.
