Walton Smith

Walton Smith is a Vice President in the firms Strategic Innovation Group. He leads the Booz Allen's Collaboration, Mobility and Social Media practice, as well as the internal corporate investment strategy to bolster the Knowledge Management and Information Sharing Program, including the Hello.bah.com platform. He steered the successful Enterprise/Gov 2.0 engagement across multiple teams improving the flow of information to and from consulting staff, and increasing the value of collaborative outcomes for non-profit and governmental agencies. He ensured adoption and usage of the new enterprise program by integrating change management strategy with the implementation of IT technologies including social networking and enterprise search. For this, Hello.bah.com was awarded the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

Mr. Smith just finished a collaboration and knowledge management assessment and implementation plan for a large banking institution and a multinational oil and gas company. During these processes, Mr. Smith led the gathering of the overall system requirements, the market assessment and the final recommendation. Mr. Smith has led several web strategy engagements were his team evaluated current and emerging technologies to evaluate their fit the organizations technical and business requirements.

Recently, Mr. Smith has assisted with the All Partners Access Network (APAN) project that developed and rolled out the DoD wide unclassified collaboration network. APAN is used to support several international exercises, as well as in the support of major relief efforts, which included support efforts to rebuild Haiti, Japan and the current Philippian recovery efforts. APAN was awarded the Forrester Ground Swell Award, and the IAC .GOV Excellence award.

He earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from Brown University and an M.B.A. degree in E-Commerce, Telecommunications and Marketing from Vanderbilt University.