Margaret Weichert is an American businesswoman, inventor, and government executive, was Deputy Director for Management at the

Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...

from February 28, 2018 until March 25, 2020.OPM’s Rigas to take on second position as OMB acting deputy
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from October 2018 until September 16, 2019. She has served as a principal at

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since 2017. Weichert has also held executive leadership positions at Market Platform Dynamics,

First Data First Data Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The company's STAR Network provided nationwide domestic debit acceptance at more than 2 million retail POS, ATM, and Online outlets for nea ...

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, and

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focused on strategy, innovation, and business process improvement in banking and payments technology. In 1999, she co-founded an internet company, Achex, Inc., and sold that company to First Data in 2001. Achex was an online payment services developer specializing in secure checking account transfers over the internet. Weichert has been named as an inventor on 14 U.S. patents related to online financial services. She has served since 2010 on the Technology Association of Georgia Fintech Steering Committee.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weichert, Margaret Living people Georgetown University alumni Alumni of the University of Sussex University of California, Berkeley alumni 21st-century American businesspeople Trump administration personnel Ernst & Young people Bank of America people Women government officials Year of birth missing (living people) Deputy Directors for Management of the Office of Management and Budget Directors of the United States Office of Personnel Management