Bill Maile has spent most of his career working in state government, where he started as an intern to the Attorney General’s speechwriter in 1996.  He has served in notable roles such as chief deputy press secretary for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, communications director for State and Consumer Services Secretary (now GovOps), communications director for State CIO Teri Takai, and press secretary to State Senator Charles Poochigian, among others.

In 2011, he launched Techwire, a technology industry magazine based in California that covered the state’s innovation initiatives, policy developments, and major projects. After the publication was acquired by a national firm, he served for a year as communications director for the Child Welfare Digital Services Project.  From 2018 to 2019, he was the director of government affairs for the Agile Government Leadership (AGL) Association. In 2020, he served as treasurer of AGL, which rebranded to become Technologists for the Public Good. This nonprofit network supports professional development for designers, developers, data scientists, and product owners, among others. In late 2019, he co-founded TechCA, a nonprofit trade association based in California.

During his time in state government, Bill had several assignments where he supported government innovation initiatives, such as in 2004 when the state launched the California Performance Review (CPR), a top-to-bottom review of organizational efficiency, during Governor Schwarzenegger’s first term.

A few years later, while serving as communications director at the State and Consumer Services Agency, he oversaw internal and external communications for the launch of the Office of Technology Services (OTech), California’s centralized state data center that consolidated the Teale Data Center and Health and Welfare Agency Data Center to establish a statewide service for all state agencies, a recommendation by the CPR.

In 2007, he was appointed by the governor to serve as the first senior staff person in the Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO), which later became the California Technology Agency, and today is the California Department of Technology.  Bill served during a critical phase of the agency as it grew from a staff of five to more than 1100 after it consolidated with OTech and a technology project oversight office previously located within the Department of Finance.

During his tenure at the California Technology Agency, the organization saw tremendous growth in policy, operations, and oversight responsibilities with the passage of AB 2408 in 2010. This bill consolidated authority under the State Chief Information Officer, who serves in a federated model with Agency and Department Chief Information Officers across the Executive Branch, a modern organizational structure that still exists today.