Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: SAIC’s Vishal Tulsian
Vishal Tulsian has harnessed SAIC’s experience as a multisource service integrator to empower customers for better decision-making, stronger controls and greater accountability — while connecting services, data and people more effectively than ever. For example, his team helps the Food and Drug Administration connect scientists with data by delivering mission solutions that solve critical scientific
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: Guidehouse’s Alicia Harkness
A founding partner at global consultancy Guidehouse, Alicia Harkness was named the leader of its health segment in July 2020. She is passionate about positively impacting the health care ecosystem by enabling access to care; improving health equity and patient experiences; designing cost-effective care delivery models; and efficiently fast-tracking the release of lifesaving drugs and
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: ManTech’s Geoff Howard
Geoff Howard leads strategy and program execution for federal health clients and has built what he describes as a “cohesive team that trusts and supports one another.” “I have a great mix of people — some that have been with me since 2008, and others that have been added over the last few years with
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: ASRC Federal’s Chip Terry
Richard “Chip” Terry’s more than 30 years of experience includes having served in two of the foremost positions in military health care: chief information officer of the Air Force Medical Service and CIO of the Military Health System/Defense Health Agency. Today, Terry’s ASRC Federal team supports health contracts across DHA, the Defense Healthcare Management Systems,
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: CGI Federal’s Steve Sousa
Steve Sousa leads the Healthcare & Social Services Practice at CGI Federal, and he is especially proud his team continued to deliver mission-critical services to federal clients during the difficult times of the last year-plus. Among those projects that required quick adaptability was the delivery of the robotics process automation implementation at the Social Security
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: Peraton’s Tarik Reyes
Tarik Reyes has been hard at work bringing together three companies in a matter of months while supporting the nation’s COVID-19 response and continuing to win large marquee defense and civil health opportunities. Reyes’ most recent achievement is integrating Peraton’s acquisitions of Northrop Grumman’s Federal IT and Mission Support Services Business and Perspecta. He worked
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: NTT DATA’s Doug Kelly
Douglas Kelly has over two decades of management consulting and IT experience in the public and private sectors. The majority of this experience has come in the federal health space, and recently, his biggest achievement has been growth. As NTT DATA continues to experience consistent year-over-year growth, Kelly said he is encouraged to see the
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: Maximus’ Thomas Naughton
Over nearly two decades at Maximus, Tom Naughton has helped government improve health outcomes for millions of people. Under his leadership, Maximus played an important role in supporting the government’s response to COVID-19. As the operator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main information line, Naughton was tasked with leading a massive ramp-up to
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: LMI’s Christen Smith
Following a successful two-and-a-half years leading and growing LMI’s management advisory services, Christen Smith began leading LMI’s Health and Civilian Market in November 2020 with a mandate to lead strategic growth in the health space. She had grown her previous group from 370 to 600 people through a combination of organic and inorganic growth, including
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: GDIT’s Kamal Narang
Over the past year, one of Kamal Narang’s biggest achievements is his role is his team’s partnership across various federal health agencies to continue to be nimble and agile in support of their pandemic response efforts. Plus, the team effectively retained and hired the best talent with a focus on building great teams with diverse
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: ICF’s Jennifer Welham
Jennifer Welham leads a division that provides research, analytics, training, technical assistance and evaluation to help clients and the public make informed public health decisions. “I’ve spent my entire career helping clients understand and leverage scientific research to make decisions that protect and improve public health,” she said. Welham’s team managed the Centers for Disease Control
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: Salient CRGT’s Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller prides herself on being part of the leadership team assembled to help transform Salient CRGT as a major competitor in the full and open GovCon market. That achievement required her team to balance strategic corporate objectives, win all of its recompetes, and increase the total contract value of its new business wins from
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: Leidos’ Liz Porter
Seventeen months after stepping into the role of president of the Leidos Health Group, Liz Porter has made her mark on the business. Despite vigorous protests by the incumbents, her team won two major takeaway contracts this year: the $2 billion Military and Family Life Counseling program and the $999 million Reserve Health Readiness Program.
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: AWS’ Phoebe L. Yang
Under Phoebe Yang’s leadership, AWS has supported many of the nation’s most innovative and impactful health systems at the frontlines of the pandemic. She and her team have helped providers design solutions to tackle COVID-19, adopt new technology to solve the challenge of social distancing and migrate to the cloud to build advanced clinical capabilities impossible
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: Booz Allen’s Roman Salasznyk
As a leader in Booz Allen’s civil health business, Roman Salasznyk is passionate about working with federal health agencies to deliver enabling technologies and strategies aimed to accelerate research and deliver better health outcomes. This past year, his team worked with the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Biomedical Advanced Research
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021
Even before the world was hit with a life-changing pandemic, the health care industry was among the most evolving, impactful and discussed areas in government contracting and the nation. During 2020, and well into 2021, these companies have worked with government customers to strategically, efficiently and safely tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, disperse vaccines and keep
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