Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: SAP National Security Services’ Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner joined SAP National Security Services in 2015, tasked with the security and compliance of the corporate network, sharing best practice with customers and security oversight of NS2’s FedRAMP and commercial cloud offerings. Today, he’s the organization’s vice president and chief information security officer. In 2019, SAP NS2 spent a significant amount of time
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Novetta’s Amanda Satterwhite
At Novetta, Amanda Satterwhite leads a team in developing progressive and resilient tools and infrastructures in support of full-spectrum cyber missions. A software developer in her early career, Satterwhite has risen through the ranks of federal contracting, taking on increasing responsibility along the way. She has a history of delivering critical mission systems and leading
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: CACI’s Kevin McNeill
Following CACI’s acquisition of LGS Innovations last year, Kevin McNeill helped lead the successful integration of LGS’ cyber research and development capabilities into CACI. Additionally, CACI opened a new office in Port San Antonio, Texas, to further collaborate with the U.S. Air Force and other government customers in the region, and to provide research and development
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Northrop Grumman’s Jennifer Walsmith
Transitioning from nearly 30 years in the intelligence community to private industry, Jennifer Walsmith brings to Northrop Grumman Corp. an expert ability to build collaborative and agile teams as she is tasked with growing the cyber and intelligence mission solutions business portfolio. Walsmith leverages her deep knowledge from her former U.S. government experience to guide
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Mark Gamis
Building on a 27-plus-year career, Mark Gamis has served as a senior leader with Booz Allen Hamilton for nearly 16 years. As senior vice president, he leads the firm’s civil cybersecurity business, integrating leading cyber and engineering capabilities to defend against increasingly complex cyberthreats. Gamis drives mission-centric, modernized cyberdefense solutions for federal clients that deliver
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: ECS’ Josh Salmanson
Josh Salmanson joined ECS in July 2019, making his first and most significant effort solidifying critical partnerships in advance of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework. His work ensures ECS will be level 5 compliant and able to provide compliance-as-a-service for other companies. What stands out to Salmanson so far is how ECS hires the
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Splunk’s Juliana Vida
In the spring of 2019, Juliana Vida became Splunk’s first-ever chief technical adviser, a position created to leverage her extensive military and government career and skills as a communicator and storyteller. Splunk has long been a key player in helping public sector agencies turn their data into doing, and Vida proved the perfect person to
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Coalfire Federal’s Bill Malone
Under President Bill Malone’s leadership, Coalfire Federal in 2019 completed the successful transition from an 8(a)/small business to a large cybersecurity services provider. Coalfire Federal grew 20%, achieved its ISO 20000 certification to go along with its IS0 9001/27001 and CMMI III and was named to the Top Workplaces for 2019 by The Washington Post.
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: EY’s Kris Lovejoy
Named EY global advisory cybersecurity leader in 2019, Kris Lovejoy leads more than 7,000 EY employees across the globe to help organizations protect and grow their businesses through proactive cybersecurity initiatives. Lovejoy launched the EY Security by Design initiative — driving a new mindset toward business and security alignment by building in cybersecurity into every
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: USDA’s Venice Goodwine
Just a few weeks after Venice Goodwine became the Agriculture Department’s chief information security officer in December 2018, she successfully led the department’s Information Security Center through the 35-day partial government shutdown. During that time, she continued to secure USDA’s mission leading a team of essential staff, who operate the 24/7 security operations center, or
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner
As chief technology officer for HP Federal, Tommy Gardner overseas technology leadership, strategic technology plans, product strategies and customer and partner relationships. His portfolio spans federal agencies, educational institutions and state and local government segments. In 2019, Gardner was one of the key architects of HP Federal’s proposal for the end-user hardware portion of the
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Parsons’ Paul Decker
Paul Decker joined Parsons Corp. in 2018, bringing 20 years of professional experience with more than half concentrated in cyberspace operations. He’s a skilled cyber operations strategist focused on innovative leadership, vision and sound financial drivers, currently serving as executive vice president. In 2019, Decker helped Parsons reach a number of milestones. The company’s cyber
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020
The cyberthreat landscape is constantly evolving — creating new challenges, expanding vulnerabilities and resulting in more sophisticated hacks and breaches. Government and industry alike are in a never-ending fight to preemptively detect threats, constantly protect and actively defend systems, networks and enterprisewide IT infrastructures. And as the federal and private sectors modernize legacy systems and
Top 10 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2020: Cerner Government Services’ Travis Dalton
Travis Dalton serves as the first president of Cerner Government Services, overseeing more than 5,000 Cerner associates and 40 partner companies working to provide the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs with a new, interoperable electronic health record. With more than 1,955 sites of care serving 18 million service members, veterans and beneficiaries, these programs
Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Halfaker and Associates’ Dawn Halfaker
Dawn Halfaker founded Halfaker and Associates, a professional services and technology solutions firm, in 2006. Prior to her consulting career, she served as a military police officer in the U.S. Army, holding several leadership positions and earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for her service after being wounded during a combat patrol near Baghdad
Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Perspecta’s Bill Lovell
As Perspecta, Inc.’s senior vice president and general manager of the health group, Bill Lovell leverages more than 30 years of experience in areas like federal program management and financial management, business process re-engineering, business enterprise architecture, health IT operations and health system performance monitoring and reporting. Lovell leads strategic planning and support for customers across
Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Medical Science & Computing’s Anna Koroleva
Anna Koroleva leads the Life Sciences & Bioinformatics division of Medical Science & Computing, a Dovel Technologies company. With more than 15 years of leadership in building successful teams to support and deliver on customer missions, she brings deep expertise in the federal health and life sciences industry. Koroleva joined the leadership team of MSC
Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: GDIT’s Kamal Narang
As the head of GDIT’s Federal Health Sector, Kamal Narang has integrated three different health units — following two mergers in four years — into a cohesive, GDIT team dedicated to an enduring commitment to value, innovation and service delivery in support of its customers’ mission. “To us, customer acknowledgment of our partnership approach through
Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: Leidos’ Michael Jackman
Leidos named Michael Jackman Health Group chief operating officer in January, and he has since overseen the group’s daily operations and is working closely with the leadership teams to deliver platforms and services that help address current health care challenges. And while Jackman has been with Leidos for a few months, the company has a
Top 10 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2020: Northrop Grumman’s Yolanda Curtis
In 2019, Yolanda Curtis was tapped to transition from leading a portfolio of health IT programs to the director for the entire Health Protection Solutions Operating Unit at Northrop Grumman. She was chosen for her focus on top program performance, business growth and building strong teams where employees can work at their best. She also has
Top 10 Health Execs to Watch in 2020: MAXIMUS’ Dr. Michael S. Weiner
Since joining MAXIMUS in July 2018 as chief medical officer, Dr. Michael S. Weiner has relied on his quarter-century of experience in the clinical and technology fields to develop strategies that have continued to fuel the growth of the company’s health services business. He’s been the driving force behind the overall strategic direction and oversight
Top 10 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2020: Booz Allen’s Rich Crowe
Rich Crowe has been a leader within Booz Allen Hamilton since 2004, providing more than 25 years of experience in strategy development and technology delivery to the firm’s health business. From authoring seven patents on the method and application of nonequilibrium plasmas to revolutionizing how health care benefits can be delivered to veterans through the
Top 10 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2020
The health care industry may arguably be one of the most evolving, impactful and conversed areas in government contracting and the nation. Companies are working to strategically, efficiently and safely improve and innovate health care, while navigating massive disparate complex systems that impact every single American. WashingtonExec’s Top 10 Healthcare Execs to Watch in 2020
Top 10 CFOs to Watch in 2020: NT Concepts’ Mark Cabrey
In late 2019, Mark Cabrey joined NT Concepts as senior vice president and chief financial officer to help continue the company’s mid-tier rise in the GovCon community. NT Concepts enters 2020 on the heels of a $125 million full and open win on DISA ENCORE III, providing comprehensive agencywide IT service design and support to
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