McKinsey's public sector lead — met in one decade, reconnected by accident in the next
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The lead McKinsey partner for public sector work in Washington, and later head of the public sector practice for North America and then globally.
Jonathan Hare knew him first through the Washington years, and was reconnected to him in 2013 entirely by coincidence — through Richard Spires, then working for Hare as a consultant.
Thomas Dohrmann of McKinsey's Public Sector Practice appears twice in the record, and the two appearances are unconnected — which Hare flags deliberately, because coincidence honestly labeled is worth more than pattern falsely implied. First: December 10th, 2008, in the Obama transition session Reed Hundt organized with Gary Gensler and a handful of others, on privacy-preserving internet infrastructure as the regulatory infrastructure for the 21st century — the meeting the record's Goldman-margins page descends from. They met again in 2013–14 around Hare's White House cybersecurity briefings. Second, and separately: it was Dohrmann who introduced Hare to James Kaplan in 2013, which produced the CISO summit and the Aetna decade. The 2024 thread published as S-074 restates both, in Hare's contemporaneous words to Dohrmann himself.
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This is the third or fourth instance in this record of a relationship from one decade re-entering through an unrelated door in a later one — Larry Tesler and the commune, Michael Spence and Oak Hill, Wolfson and Scholes appearing at Cornerstone and then at Consilient thirteen years on.
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IRS CIO, then DHS CIO — consultant, then President of Resilient
Open →the same Washington worldRegulatory Infrastructure for the 21st Century — presented while the meltdown was still happening
Open →the periodThe trust network, and the intelligence years
Open →Public Sector Practice atNever Hare's client, always in the corridor: Dohrmann, Kaplan, Singer, Mendonca — and the 2026 reintroduction
Open →in the 2008 transition room convened byFCC chairman, then transition lead for the money agencies
Open →introduced Hare toLeader of McKinsey Technology; the 2013 drill-downs, the New Jersey summit, and the June 2026 reintroduction on Hare's birthday
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