WashExec RollCall: Your Inside Look at Our Network’s Professional Activity

WashExec Executive RollCall: JD Kathuria pulls from the broader WashingtonExec network to dish out the area’s who’s who and what’s what.

When it comes to striking deals, who you know trumps what you know in the government contracting community. And with three years of WashingtonExec’s outcome and result-oriented networking programs and events behind us, I’ve decided to expand our networking offering with some supplementary content.

The WashingtonExec Roll Call is a weekly feature within the WashingtonExec e-magazine that leverages our connections to catalog the area’s happenings.

For the past couple months we have tapped into our thousands of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and in-person connections to compile and share with you information about the promotions, company switches, job openings and work anniversaries that transpire within the broader WashingtonExec network.

The end result? A running map of who’s where — professionally — in the Greater Washington area.

In this week’s WashExec RollCall, we saw 15 new hires/appointments and 16 January work anniversaries. Read on for insight about the topics that caught our eyes and ears this past week within our network’s virtual water cooler.

New Hires:
Kirit Amin is now Chief Information Officer at U.S. International Trade Commission
Jon Carr is now Capture Manager at E3 Federal Solutions LLC
Cris Benavides is now Director of Business Development at Barbaricum
Tara Clark is now Business Development and Quality Specialist-Diageo Guiness USA at Inspira Marketing Group
Taylor Culman is now Founding Board Member at Promazo Consulting
Melissa Hardt is now Director, Field Marketing, Public Sector at Splunk
John Jolly is now Chief Revenue Officer at RedJack
Melissa Morehouse is now New Business Sales Associate at Timberlake Membership Software
Patricia Munchel is now Senior Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer at PAE
Greg Mundell is now Director of Federal Sales at CliQr Technologies
Kelly Olson is now Senior Innovation Advisor & Program Director at GSA
John Porter, PhD is now CEO, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy
Mike Raymond is now Vice President, Federal at A10 Networks
Stu Shea is now CEO at Shea Strategies LLC.
Michael Weiland is now Executive Director, Finance — National Services Group at CACI International Inc.

Work Anniversaries:
Ronald Alexander this month celebrates two years at Dovel Technologies Inc.
Stacy Brownstein this month celebrates one year at Attain
Gil Guarino this month celebrates two years at Guarino & Associates LLC
Richard Heimann this month celebrates four years at University of Maryland Baltimore County
John Hillen this month celebrates one year at LLR Partners
Moe Jafari this month celebrates 18 years at HumanTouch LLC
Robert Laurine, Jr. this month celebrates one year at RK Executive Consulting LLC
Veeral Majmudar this month celebrates three years at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
Khalid McLeod this month celebrates 11 years at KamLife Fitness
Paul Nguyen this month celebrates one year at Internet Security Alliance
Kelly Olson this month celebrates one year at Atlantic Media
Kristin Panzarella this month celebrates five years at CPS Professional Services
Nitin Pradhan this month celebrates one year at GOVonomy Inc.
Suresh Shenoy this month celebrates 26 years at Information Management Consultants Inc.
Gil Smith this month celebrates three years at YRCI
Marta Wilson, PhD this month celebrates 13 years at Transformation Systems Inc.

News at WashingtonExec:
We are gearing up for our 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium on March 7, 2015, at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Va. This year’s theme is “The Parent Factor: How to Engage Your Kids in STEM.” The free, all-day event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. that equally engages children, parents and teachers, coupled with corporate, government, academia and non-profit executives from the STEM fields. Activities for the day will include hands-on experiments for children, government and industry exhibitors, student science fair projects and panel discussions with STEM stakeholders. Attendees will also be able to find information about government and industry STEM-related high school and college internships. For more information, click here. We expect more than 2,500 attendees.

Jobs of the Week:
On behalf of a friend, a company is looking for a Business Development professional for a government mobility division who has two to four year’s experience selling to the federal government (essentially needs to know the basics of government contracting and engagement). Strong aptitude for learning about services around new technologies (mobility experience would be a plus, but not a requirement). Key qualities include hunter, ambitious, strong work ethic and results-oriented. If interested, email info@washingtonexec.com.

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