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Rachele Cooper, CEO of Aptive, has won WashingtonExec’s 2024 Chief Officer Award for CEO in the Private and Public Company (annual revenue greater than $100 million and less than $500 million) category.
WashingtonExec on May 10 unveiled the winners of the Chief Officer Awards, an annual program that celebrates influential and innovative executives in government and industry in the C-suite. The event took place at The Hilton in McLean, Virginia, where hundreds of attendees came together for a memorable in-person luncheon.
Along with the government and industry winners, Richard Montoni, a director on Maximus board of directors who was the company’s CEO from 2006-2018, was honored with the 2024 Chief Officer Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognizes the career of a longtime, influential, impactful CEO who continues to share his perspective and expertise within and outside the GovCon industry. Montoni was introduced and honored by his successor, current Maximus CEO Bruce Caswell.
![WashingtonExec CEO JD Kathuria stands with some of the winners of the 2024 Chief Officer Awards. (From left to right: Integral Federal's Manuel Mendez, V2X's Roger Ouellette, SPA's Michelle Howell, Acentra Health's Kelly Loeffler, Royce Geo's Lee Bader, JD Kathuria, Two Six Technologies' Amy Dalton and HII's Ashutosh Gokhale.)](https://washingtonexec.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/8558-574-scaled.jpg)