Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Kyle Janek has announced the assembling of a team of experts to help strengthen oversight and monitoring of contracts.
John Scott, the former Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation, recently was named HHSC's chief operating officer, and his first priority is to strengthen contract oversight at the agency. Scott's new contract oversight team will include:
- Ron Pigott, who headed procurement at the Texas Comptroller's Office since 2008.
- Matthew Chaplin, who served as assistant general counsel at the Texas General Land Office for more than a decade and was in charge of contract compliance and management.
Cecile Young will be serving as a senior advisor. Young has worked for three governors, in the Attorney General's Office and as associate commissioner at HHSC from 2007 to 2011.
In November, Nicole Guerrero was brought in as the agency's internal audit director. Guerrero was an audit manager at the Texas State Auditor's Office and has more than 20 years of audit experience.