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 four 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.
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 13 new hires/promotions and eight 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/Promotions:
Balan Ayyar, Chief Operating Officer of Sevatec Inc. has joined the WashingtonExec Speaker Committee
Casey Coleman is now the President of Civilian Business at Unisys Federal
Chris Foster is now Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton
Dave Garrett is now Director, Digital Presence at Project Management Institute
Karli Gillespie is now Committee Member at Alpha Chi Omega PR and Marketing Committee
Will Grannis is now Director at Google
Daniel Haug is now CEO at Cohere Technology Group
Tim Hurlebaus is now President, CGI Federal
Alexis Koeppen is now Senior Analyst at Attain
Robert Laurine, Jr. is now Chief Technologist, Consulting and Intelligence at Hewlett-Packard
Allison Mason is now Senior Manager, Public Sector Marketing at Red Hat
Stephen Metz is now Vice President/Executive Director of Navy Programs at AMERICAN SYSTEMS
George Obertubbesing is now Business Development Executive at CACI International Inc.
Work Anniversaries:
Jerry Calhoun this month celebrates one year at Vencore (previously known as The SI)
Michael Chasen this month celebrates two years at SocialRadar
Tim Cooke this month celebrates two years at ASI Government
Linda Cureton this month celebrates two years at Muse Technologies Inc.
Aditya Handa this month celebrates one year at Telecommunications Consulting Inc.
Don (DJ) Kachman this month celebrates 17 years at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
JD Kathuria this month celebrates four years at WashingtonExec
Pallabi Saboo this month celebrates 11 years at Harmonia Holdings Group LLC
In the News:
“Wholesale Government: Open Data and APIs” argue that wholesale digital services — opening up data and systems to business and non-profit intermediaries — is the massive opportunity that every government executive and public sector entrepreneur should be seizing to make government smarter and more effective. Read the piece in its entirety here, written by Aneesh Chopra and Nick Sinai, both Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellows at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, located within Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology senior Pooja Chandrashekar, who served as a panelist at the 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, in addition to others. Read The Washington Post article here.
Geospatial Intelligence Forum correspondent Henry Canaday published the article, “Sensors, Software Boost UAV Uses,” discussing the new applications and tools that will be required to manage the growing prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
News at WashingtonExec:
The Execs on the Move Group has gained traction with many changes at the executive levels in the government and government contracting industry. This group consists of executives in various states of transition – ranging from plans to re-enter the govcon industry, engaging in start-up work, consulting or serving as Board of Advisors/Directors. Recent retired government executives are also represented. Topics for 2015 will include LinkedIn (basic and advanced features), self-awareness, board appointments and changes in the federal market space. This group is chaired by Carlos Echalar Chief Advisor & President of the Workforce Advisory Group.
The conversation about the importance of STEM and the opportunities for students to get involved continues despite the completion of the 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium. We have created a 50-page Parent Action Plan, which features STEM-related summer camps, after-school activities, online resources, educator training, internship information, best practices, science-related apps and more.
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