OMB names deputy director for management

The Senate unanimously confirmed Aug. 1 President Bush's appointment of Mark Everson as deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget.

The deputy director for management will provide governmentwide leadership to executive branch agencies to strengthen federal management and improve program performance. The Bush administration has operated without a deputy director for management since the president took office.

As deputy director for management, Everson will serve as chairman of the President's Management Council, leading the team of cabinet department and major agency chief operating officers in implementing the President's Management Agenda. Everson also will have an important role in transition planning for the new Department of Homeland Security, OMB said.

Everson joined the administration in August 2001 and has been serving as controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management since his confirmation last November. Formerly, he was group vice president of finance for SC International Services Inc., a private food services company based in Dallas. From 1988 to 1998, Everson held several financial and operating positions with one of France's largest industrial groups, Pechiney, including the position of senior vice president-control in Paris.

Everson served in the Reagan administration from 1982 to 1988. He spent three years at the U.S. Information Agency before becoming special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese III at the Department of Justice in 1985. Everson also worked at the Immigration and Naturalization Service as executive associate commissioner and then deputy commissioner, where he oversaw the implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.