Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Battelle’s Denise Johnson
Denise Johnson Vice President of Health Research and Analytics, Battelle Denise Johnson spearheads a team committed to advancing scientific endeavors that improve health outcomes, support quality patient care and drive groundbreaking innovations in health and biomedical research. Her team is at the forefront of using AI and machine learning to craft innovative solutions for both
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: PagerDuty’s Eric Forseter
Eric Forseter Vice President of Public Sector, PagerDuty Today, over 200 public sector entities — including federal agencies, local municipalities and higher education institutions — work with PagerDuty. Eric Forseter’s team is helping a major federal agency use AI to automate operations and deliver vital services more efficiently to millions of Americans. Most citizens may
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Microsoft’s Wole Moses
Wole Moses Chief AI Officer, Federal Civilian, Microsoft Wole Moses is driving AI adoption in the U.S. federal government by ensuring agencies take a comprehensive approach. He understands success requires more than just deploying technology —i t demands alignment across policy, workforce readiness, governance and mission objectives to achieve meaningful and responsible outcomes. A key
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: MetroStar’s Vy Truong
Vy Truong Chief Innovation Officer, MetroStar One of Vy Truong’s biggest recent achievements was helping MetroStar’s team launch Modern Intelligent Development AI System, or MIDAS, MetroStar’s AI-enabled solution for modernizing legacy code migration. Developed in MetroStar’s Innovation Lab, MIDAS transforms outdated, mission-critical applications into modern, maintainable code. Leveraging cutting-edge Large Language Models and a human-in-the-loop
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: CGI’s Victor Foulk
Victor Foulk Vice President of Emerging Technologies, CGI Victor Foulk leads CGI Federal’s emerging technologies practice, guiding a team of engineers and scientists to drive innovation and efficiency for federal customers. He launched and sustains enterprise-scale agentic AI platforms at CGI, along with an industry-leading R&D program for applied AI. His team evaluates emerging technologies
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Guidehouse’s Stuart Brown
Stuart Brown Digital Leader, Guidehouse A renowned technologist and thought leader, Stuart Brown joined Guidehouse in January, bringing over 27 years of transformative leadership experience across diverse industries to the firm. A versatile strategist and visionary, he has a proven history of delivering complex and large-scale business transformation initiatives. At Guidehouse, he is spearheading how
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Intel Corp.’s Melvin Greer
Melvin Greer Fellow & Chief Data Scientist, Intel Corp. Melvin Greer’s biggest recent achievement was working with key customers to develop the art and the risks of prompt engineering. Well-crafted generative AI prompts can significantly influence the quality and relevance of GenAI tools. Intel’s customers are now proficient in achieving advanced AI model capabilities with
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Core4ce’s Rick Hubbard
Rick Hubbard Chief Engineer for Advanced Mission Solutions & Lead for the Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Lab, Core4ce Rick Hubbard’s biggest achievement was establishing a cross-disciplinary team of researchers and scientists to tackle some of the most difficult AI problems facing the Defense Department and the intelligence community through the Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence,
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Amida Technology Solutions’ Mark Forman
Mark Forman Chief Strategy Officer, Amida Technology Solutions Mark Forman is focused on helping Amida achieve another year of triple-digit million-dollar sales by expanding its presence across state and federal agencies with AI/ML and data management solutions. Government healthcare and social services processes are inefficient, and AI/ML can dramatically improve cycle times, accuracy and costs
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: ECS’ Marshall Thames
Marshall Thames Senior Vice President of Technology and Innovation, ECS Marshall Thames and his team recently deployed over 800 AI models for Defense Department agencies, multiple combatant commands, the Navy, the Army and key programs like the Maven Program, for which ECS has been the prime AI integrator for more than seven years. ECS developed
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: ManTech’s Kristen Summers
Kristen Summers Vice President & Technical Fellow, AI, ManTech ManTech has built a team and a methodology to bring the right kind of data analytics or AI for each client challenge, from narrow models to cutting-edge generative AI and agentic methods. “We’ve been building out a fantastic team of experts in ManTech’s Data and AI
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Westat’s Liz Mannshardt
Liz Mannshardt Vice President & Director, Statistics and Data Science Center, Westat Liz Mannshardt is leading the effort to modernize Westat’s approach to data governance, which will allow the company to better organize, manage and secure clients’ data assets and internal enterprise data assets. Mannshardt is also working to develop implementation standards for enhanced data
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Allocore’s Kathryn Kienast
Kathryn Kienast Executive Vice President of Client Success, Allocore In 2024, Kathryn Kienast said she was “incredibly excited” to join Allocore, a firm that uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to modernize federal loan, grant and fraud detection platforms. Allocore’s AI tech capabilities play an important role in providing needed support and resources to Americans in
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Booz Allen Hamilton’s John Larson
John Larson Executive Vice President & Head of AI, Booz Allen Hamilton John Larson’s biggest achievement is Booz Allen being ranked the No. 1 AI services provider to the federal government for the second year in a row. “This success is supported by our growing footprint of 2,500 AI practitioners and the implementation of our
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: IBM’s Jen Shreckhise
Jen Shreckhise Vice President, Data and AI Platform Leader, U.S. Federal Market, IBM Over the past four years, IBM achieved over $3.5 billion in internal productivity gains by applying its own AI technology across the company — and that number continues to grow. Jen Shreckhise’s primary goal this year is to accelerate the adoption and
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: SAIC’s Jay Meil
Jay Meil Vice President of AI and Data Analytics, SAIC Over the past year, Jay Meil and his team were proud to advance Tenjin as a modular, open systems architecture designed to orchestrate the entire AI model lifecycle, from data ingestion to inference and dissemination. Unlike rigid, siloed platforms, Tenjin provides the flexibility to integrate
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Leidos’ Geoffrey Schaefer
Geoffrey Schaefer Vice President of AI Strategy and Governance, Leidos Geoffrey Schaefer’s principal goal for 2025 is to build out a truly scaled AI governance program and set a new standard for managing large and complex AI ecosystems. This will be a major achievement for Schaefer because scale means something different at Leidos. “We’re a
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: The Aerospace Corp.’s Debra Emmons
Debra Emmons Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, The Aerospace Corp. During the past year, Debra Emmons and her team successfully integrated AI and machine learning into mission-critical workflows for national security space. They facilitated a groundbreaking hackathon with Microsoft to demonstrate virtual assistant capabilities using Azure OpenAI, ensuring secure implementation for government environments. Additionally,
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Empower AI’s Besma Abidi
Besma Abidi Senior Director of Engineering, Empower AI Besma Abidi recently led a team that launched a first-of-its-kind edge AI device that performs automatic target recognition of enemy vessels. The U.S. Navy uses the AI and deep learning system to read hull numbers, classify vessels by type and generate threat alerts. Abidi’s team of engineers
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Clearview AI’s Bill Solms
Bill Solms Vice President of U.S. Federal Sales, Clearview AI Bill Solms is particularly proud of Clearview AI’s recent successes with national security customers, which are kept confidential, but a major federal law enforcement customer used the company’s software to search available but unidentified facial images from years of unresolved child exploitation cases and developed
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Spatial Front’s Aleksandar Zelenovic
Aleksandar Zelenovic Chief Technology Officer, Spatial Front Inc A few of Aleksandar Zelenovic’s recent achievements include rolling out one of the first generative AI solutions in the federal government, and integrating security, value-driven use cases and interesting tech. At the same time, his SFI team built highly accurate AI models to support internal business development
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: LMI’s Alex Adamczyk
Alex Adamczyk Vice President of Advanced Analytics and AI, LMI Under Alex Adamczyk’s leadership, LMI delivered AI-enabled platforms to address some of the federal government’s most pressing challenges across defense, civilian and intelligence sectors. In 2024, Adamczyk spearheaded an LMI team that secured over $100 million in AI-centric work, offering digital solutions to streamline government
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Deloitte Consulting’s Adita Karkera
Adita Karkera Chief Data Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Government and Public Services Adita Karkera and her team have continued to leverage data and AI technologies to help transform government operations, making them more efficient, transparent and trusted. By automating and augmenting tasks, streamlining regulations and modernizing IT systems, they significantly improved service delivery, reduced costs
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025: Integer Technologies’ Aaron Wagner
Aaron Wagner Chief Strategy Officer, Integer Technologies LLC Integer Technologies is applying its expertise in engineering, AI and first-principles thinking to accelerate the development and deployment of solutions in digital engineering, autonomous systems and advanced manufacturing. Since Aaron Wagner joined as chief strategy officer, the company has been building on its unique model of partnering
Never miss a Top AI Execs to Watch in 2025 story.
Our latest executive profiles, council news, and GovCon headlines — every morning.