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2024 Chief Officer Awards Finalists Unveiled

SWStaff Writer|3 min read|April 2, 2024
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Congratulations to all the Chief Officer Awards finalists and nominees across industry and government!

Join us May 10, 11:30 a.m. at The Hilton in McLean, Virginia, for an in-person event and luncheon. In the coming weeks, we will be posting Q&As with some of the finalists, so keep your eye out for that.

Below are the industry finalists.

Private Company

Chief Executive Officer

Annual Revenue Greater than $20M and Less than $100M

  • Burton White, Excella
  • David Sterling, Royce Geo
  • John Ayers, REDLattice
  • Jonathan Evans, B&A
  • Paul Farmer, CASE

Private & Public Company

Chief Executive Officer

Annual Revenue Greater than $100M and Less than $500M

  • Bill Webner, Capgemini Government Solutions
  • David Yockman, Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.
  • Delali Dzirasa, Fearless
  • John Ustica, Siemens Government Technologies
  • Mark Drever, Xcelerate Solutions
  • Rachele Cooper, Aptive
  • Steve Kelley, J&J Worldwide Services
  • Tim Borchert, Tria Federal

Private & Public Company

Chief Executive Officer

Annual Revenue Over $500M

  • Horacio Rozanski, Booz Allen Hamilton
  • John Cuomo, VSE Corporation
  • John Heller, Amentum
  • John Wasson, ICF
  • Matt Desch, Iridium Communications

Private Company

Chief Financial Officer

Annual Revenue Greater than $20M and Less than $100M

  • Dave Bromberg, CASE
  • Josh Montgomery, MAXISIQ
  • Manuel Mendez, Integral Federal, Inc.

Private Company

Chief Financial Officer

Annual Revenue Greater than $100M and Less than $500M

  • Amy Wood, Intelligent Waves
  • Craig College, CALIBRE
  • Norman Bishop, J&J Worldwide Services
  • Rick Johnson, IntelliBridge
  • Tracy Nguyen, Highlight Technologies, Inc.

Public Company

Chief Financial Officer

  • Ashutosh Gokhale, HII Mission Technologies
  • David Mutryn, Maximus
  • Prabu Natarajan, SAIC
  • Shawn Mural, V2X
  • Steve Griffin, VSE CORPORATION

Private Company

Chief Growth Officer

Annual Revenue Greater than $20M and Less than $100M

  • Bryan Walter, CASE
  • Lee Bader, Royce Geo
  • Marc Zoellner, The Building People
  • Martha Mathers, OPEXUS
  • Ram Ravi, FedTec

Public & Private Company

Chief Growth Officer

Annual Revenue Greater than $100M and Less than $500M

  • Chris Bishop, Ultra Intelligence & Communications
  • Daniel Riggs, Dine Development Corporation
  • Kelly Loeffler, Acentra Health
  • Sean Thompson, J&J Worldwide Services
  • Shannon Kelley, Magellan Federal
  • Tim Patterson, Intelligent Waves
  • Trey Theimer, DMI

Private Company

Chief Growth Officer

Annual Revenue greater than $500M

  • Carl Buffington, Koniag Government Services
  • Laura Braksator, SMX Technologies
  • Sean Robertson, Iron Bow Technologies

Public & Private Company

Chief Human Resources Officer

  • Catalina Murillo, Intelligent Waves
  • Danielle Cole, Agile Defense
  • Jo Ann Bjornson, V2X
  • Julie Anna Barker, ManTech
  • Marion Ticknor, DMI
  • Melissa Marousek, J&J Worldwide Services
  • Michelle Howell, Systems Planning and Analysis

Public & Private Company

Chief Information Officer

  • Jeff Zack, LMI
  • Mike Uster, ManTech
  • Myles Weber, Appian
  • Nathan Rogers, SAIC
  • Shane Breland, Core4ce

Public & Private Company

Chief Information Security Officer

  • Kevin Thomas, LMI
  • Raj Badhwar, Jacobs Engineering
  • Roger Ouellette, V2X
  • Sundhar Rajan, Casepoint

Private Company

Chief Operating Officer

  • Amy Dalton, Two Six Technologies
  • Angela Leno, Amivero
  • Bonnye Hart, OPEXUS
  • Dave Young, CAES
  • John Avalos, Arcfield
  • Mo Hessabi, MetroStar
  • Tom Peitler, ANALYGENCE

Public & Private Company

Chief Security Officer

  • Aileen Abragan, Valiant Integrated Services
  • Michael Smith, Arcfield
  • Paul Michaels, Fortinet Federal
  • Tim Potier, Parsons Corporation

Public & Private Company

Chief Technology Officer

  • Adam Estrada, Royce Geo
  • Ben Gianni, GDIT
  • Bruno Fromont, Intelsat
  • Corey Hulen, Mattermost
  • Joanie Barr, IntelliBridge
  • Kyle Fox, SOSi
  • Steve Orrin, Intel Federal

Government

Chief AI Officer

  • Eric Hysen, DHS
  • Helena Fu, DoE
  • Matthew Graviss, Department of State
  • Ramesh Menon, DIA
  • Randy Soper, IRS

Government

Chief Information Officer

  • Guy Cavallo, Office of Personnel Management
  • Kristin Ruiz, Transportation Security Administration
  • La’Naia Jones, CIA
  • Mittal Desai, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
  • Sonny Bhagowalia, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Government

Chief Information Security Officer

  • Aaron Bishop, Department of the Air Force
  • Dave McKeown, DoD
  • James Saunders, Office of Personnel Management
  • Luis Estrada, VA
  • Rob Wood, CMS

Government

Chief Technology Security Officer

  • Charles Worthington, VA
  • David Larrimore, DHS
  • Lance Scott, Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) Office
  • Lisa Belter, JOMIS
  • Venice Goodwine, Air Force
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