PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
In 1981, a decade before the call to reinvent government, IMS President and CEO John Brophy had a vision for infusing the entrepreneurial spirit into the public sector.
As an administrator within the District of Columbia who had spent the previous 13 years trying to "make government work," John understood early on the need for public-sector agencies to treat their citizens like customers instead of case numbers. He recognized the bureaucratic trappings that often impeded government's ability to achieve performance objectives focused on measurable outcomes. But he also knew the financial pressures facing cities, counties and states.
In response, John laid the groundwork for IMS, building a company that offers a range of revenue-generating services tailored to state and local government agencies inundated by large volumes of transactions, whether they be human services agencies, toll authorities, parking violations bureaus, motor vehicle departments or regulatory agencies.
John left government in 1981after the District's parking and traffic management system was recognized as the best in the nation by the U.S. Department of Transportation. He founded Brophy & Associates, a highly-successful urban parking and transportation management consulting firm. In 1983, he sold the company to Datacom Systems Corporation and became a director of that firm. A year later, he engineered the sale of Datacom to the Lockheed Corporation (now Lockheed Martin).
As president and CEO of IMS since October 1988, John oversees the company's broad-based information services operation, working with more than 200 state and local governments throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. For the past decade, IMS has been the fastest-growing company in the Lockheed Martin portfolio, and is widely regarded as one of the most valuable assets in the corporation.