Top 20 Cloud Executives to Watch in 2021
Once a buzzword, now the norm, cloud has become the standard for digital environments everywhere. As government agencies implement, integrate and begin to rely on cloud and hybrid-cloud systems, IT leaders drive the push to adopt and maintain secure, cloud-based enterprises. We’ve identified those in industry and government who are ensuring the nation is equipped
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Deloitte’s Doug Bourgeois
In 2020, Doug Bourgeois was proud to provide cloud leadership and advisory services to more than 20 government organizations including federal, state and local clients. Bourgeois’ team at Deloitte guides these clients as they stand up and operate cloud centers of excellence and brokerages, incorporate cloud into their enterprise architecture programs, implement multicloud management solutions,
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Splunk’s Teresa Carlson
Teresa Carlson joined Splunk in April from Amazon Web Services, where she was vice president of worldwide public sector and industries. Now, Carlson leads and works closely with Splunk’s sales, customer success and marketing leaders. She also leads efforts to align and drive the company’s ongoing business transformations across its go-to-market segments. Carlson started the
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Leidos’ Derrick Pledger
Derrick Pledger views the growth of Leidos’ Digital Modernization talent team as the biggest achievement of 2020. “This exciting growth included a diverse set of engineers, subject-matter experts and solution architects,”he said. Pledger’s organization contributed to over $25 billion in contract wins across the enterprise in 2020. Additionally, it developed a digital transformation roadmap that guides
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: DISA’s Sharon Woods
Under Sharon Woods’ leadership, the Cloud Computing Program Office at the Defense Department provisioned over 3.2 million users with Microsoft 365 within 30 days — setting a record in April 2020 for deploying the largest such tenant in the world. This effort, which was in response to the COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration, was key to
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: ManTech’s Sandeep Shilawat
Government agencies typically operate between five to seven cloud systems from various service providers — but those operations aren’t always seamless. In 2020, Sandeep Shilawat led ManTech’s efforts at designing infrastructure that helps ensure full interoperability between diverse cloud systems — and end-to-end security. Supported by the development and deployment of a common security baseline
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Salesforce’s John DeVoe
John DeVoe joined Salesforce in 2007 to help establish and quickly grow its public sector practice. With many years of government service, 20 years of industry experience and nearly 15 years of cloud experience, DeVoe is now focusing his efforts on helping U.S. aerospace and government contracting companies with their internal transformation efforts. “Last year definitely
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: CNSI’s Harish Nanda
Harish Nanda leads the team that designed and implemented the first completely cloud-based Medicaid Management Information System in the U.S. CNSI was also the first company to migrate a state MMIS to the cloud successfully. In 2020, CNSI’s configurable evoBrixX platform allowed state clients to quickly use new COVID-19 testing codes, getting critical funds to
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: GSA’s Ashley Mahan
In 2020, Ashley Mahan worked with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program community in support of agencies’ cloud technology and FedRAMP needs during the pandemic. FedRAMP completed 64 authorizations in fiscal year 2020, which is over 40% more than in the previous year. Additionally, with the push to the cloud to accommodate a remote
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Google Cloud’s Todd Schroeder
May 2019 marked Google Cloud’s first year of dedicating its cloud capabilities and technology know-how for the public sector. Less than a year later, Todd Schroeder and his team found their focus shifting toward helping customers navigate through the impact of COVID-19, bringing about a series of innovative solutions to meet mission challenges. Among other
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: GDIT’s Ravi Raghava
In 2020, Ravi Raghava led the expansion of GDIT’s cloud center of excellence team and helped GDIT secure some strategic cloud program wins. a While accelerating the growth of GDIT’s cloud business, Raghava and his team were very focused on helping enterprises establish their cloud strategy, drive digital transformation efforts, plan
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Red Hat’s David Egts
In 2021, David Egts has engaged with and learned directly from government executives more than he ever has in his career. “One silver lining of COVID is that video conferencing made us all equidistant,” Egts said. “Instead of formal meetings, more casual ‘virtual coffees’ allowed me to engage on a more personal level to learn
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Zscaler’s Andrew Schnabel
Andrew Schnabel leads Zscaler’s efforts to ensure government agencies can take advantage of secure modern cloud technology for mission-enabling tools to strengthen remote work, increase capacity, improve performance and upgrade security as employees work from anywhere. Schnabel was instrumental in Zscaler’s participation in the Defense Department’s zero trust proof-of-concept to help DOD move from a
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: AWS’ Christian Hoff
Christian Hoff’s biggest achievement of 2020 was leading his team to support partners and federal customers through quick pivots to remote work, scaling up new programs and keeping critical citizen services running. Hoff is proud of the team he has built, the relationships it has cultivated with partners and the results delivered to federal agencies.
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Booz Allen’s Dan Tucker
Dan Tucker has been working to lead digital transformation initiatives across civil government during a time of national need. This past year, his team worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Internal Revenue Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others, designing cloud-enabled solutions so agencies could serve their stakeholders at speed
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: NetApp’s Michelle Rudnicki
Last year, Michelle Rudnicki took the helm of NetApp U.S. Public Sector, leading her team deeper down its more than three-decade journey as a trusted adviser for many government agencies’ storage and data strategies. She focuses on supporting government’s important and complex missions by empowering clients to access their data, on-premise or in the cloud,
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Smartronix’s John Sankovich
Since joining Smartronix as president of cloud solutions in 2020, John Sankovich has used his experience starting and growing cloud businesses over the last decade to help expand the Smartronix brand across public and commercial sectors. His mission: help every organization leverage cloud innovation and value. The Smartronix team’s recent accomplishments include helping modernize West
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Authentic8’s Justin Cleveland
As head of sales since 2020, Justin Cleveland has revamped the company’s go-to-market strategy and overseen three consecutive quarters of record revenue growth. In 2020, Cleveland was promoted from head of public sector to his current role after overseeing more than 600% revenue growth since joining the firm in 2017. “I’m really proud of the
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: Palo Alto Networks’ Kurt Greening
As head of the public sector team at Prisma Cloud, a part of Palo Alto Networks, Kurt Greening helps support some of the largest mission-critical programs in the federal government. He came into his role in 2020, working to leverage cloud and cloud-native architectures to enable digital transformations that support working from home and new
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: cloudtamer.io’s Brian Price
Brian Price built cloudtamer.io to help bring simplicity and agility to cloud-first organizations on their journey to rapid cloud adoption. Last year under his leadership, cloudtamer.io more than doubled the customers using its cloud governance software, launched its Cloudunity user and partner community through two virtual events, and released over 50 new versions of its
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: C2S Consulting Group’s Brandee Daly
Brandee Daly built C2S Consulting Group out of need she saw for assistance in secure cloud services. Now, with more than 25 years of experience leveraging her technological innovation, program improvement and strategy to build successful teams and businesses, she is leading the company from the CEO seat where she has helped dozens of businesses
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