Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Acclaim Technical Services’ April Sullivan
April Sullivan Senior Vice President of Business Development, Acclaim Technical Services April Sullivan led ATS’s submission of the largest and most technically complex solution in the company’s history. “Over two years, my team deeply analyzed the customer’s mission needs and crafted a solution that directly addressed their challenges with strong technical insight,” Sullivan said. “This
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Everlaw’s Allison Patrick
Allison Patrick Vice President of Sales – Public Sector, Everlaw When Allison Patrick joined Everlaw in September 2025, she had a vision to be part of the solution to a larger problem. “I left the systems integrator sector and joined Everlaw at a time when I was empathetic to the vast growth in data and
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Celonis’ Aubrey Vaughan
Aubrey Vaughan Vice President, Government, Defense & Intelligence (Global), Celonis Aubrey Vaughan said Celonis is excited about the opportunity to help the government accelerate the adoption of AI and secure cloud technologies to deliver meaningful mission outcomes. “I’m especially proud of the strong partnerships my team has built across civilian and defense agencies,” Vaughan added.
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: AMERICAN SYSTEMS’ Babak Nouri
Babak Nouri Vice President of Corporate Development, AMERICAN SYSTEMS Babak Nouri’s most recent noteworthy achievement is working with his fellow employee‑owners to complete AMERICAN SYSTEMS’ largest acquisition to date with the purchase of Epsilon, Inc., in August 2025. This acquisition brought in approximately 400 new employee‑owners and positioned the company for its next phase of
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: RGi’s Brian Loggins
Brian Loggins President, Reinventing Geospatial, Inc. As president of RGi, Brian Loggins designed and led a growth strategy rooted in strong industry and government relationships, delivering 237% total growth over six years with sustained year-over-year growth throughout. Ultimately, this established RGi as an expert in delivering AI/ML enhanced solutions and a significant leader in cutting-edge
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: BryceTech’s Jeffrey Mujsce
Jeffrey Mujsce Chief Growth Officer, BryceTech Jeffrey Mujsce’s biggest recent achievement is balancing aggressive growth with executional integrity, resulting in three Defense Department prime contracts worth $70 million supporting JPEO-CBRND and delivering everything from lifesaving medical countermeasures to enterprise threat prediction. Those wins built on 30% revenue growth, an 80%-plus win rate across 35 federal
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Salesforce’s Michael J. Lewis
Michael J. Lewis Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Salesforce Michael Lewis brings 26 years of distinguished service to the intersection of government and technology, having shaped public sector strategies at powerhouse organizations including Siemens, GE Healthcare, GDIT, and Iron Mountain Government Solutions. Drawing on his tenure as an executive liaison with McKinsey and BCG,
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Accenture Federal Services’ Jill Kenney
Jill Kenney Managing Director, Sales and Growth Lead, Accenture Federal Services Jill Kenney’s biggest recent achievement was transforming AFS’ sales organization into a highly strategic, outcomes-driven catalyst for growth. This shift accelerated the company’s pipeline growth while enabling it to secure critical recompetes, expand its footprint in existing agencies, and break into net-new agencies. “It
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Synergy ECP’s Josh Reddell
Josh Reddell Chief Growth Officer, Synergy ECP, LLC Josh Reddell’s biggest recent achievement is the reconstruction of Synergy’s growth team, processes and tools. In the year since he became chief growth officer, Synergy has completely evolved everything about the way it does business; and it has integrated an AI-enabled infrastructure to help scale capability development,
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: BTI360’s Joey Lauffer
Joey Lauffer Chief Growth Officer, BTI360 Joey Lauffer leads BTI360’s growth strategy and execution, and before that, he spent over 20 years in leadership roles at Google and GDIT, supporting the intelligence community and Defense Department. Lauffer is passionate about applying AI and emerging technologies to solve complex mission challenges while building high-performing teams and
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: MetroStar’s Kameke Mitchell
Kameke Mitchell Senior Director of Emerging Markets, MetroStar Kameke Mitchell’s biggest recent achievement is extending MetroStar’s reach into Colorado Springs through partnerships like CCTI. In collaboration with MetroStar’s Space Growth Executive Doug Edwards, Mitchell created new opportunities to deliver AI-enabled mission solutions that help government customers operate more efficiently and effectively. That expansion is more
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Evolver’s Josh Rubin
Josh Rubin Chief Growth Officer, Evolver, LLC For Josh Rubin, hiring and developing a high-performing team is critical to achieving goals. After working with some of “the best and brightest minds in GovCon” over the past two decades, Rubin brought some of them into Evolver. That talent addition is one of his most significant achievements
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: SpyCloud’s Phil Fuster
Phil Fuster Vice President of Government Markets, SpyCloud, Inc. Phil Fuster stood up and scaled SpyCloud’s government business from a near-standing start over the past year — recruiting a senior, cleared federal team and earning trust across defense, intelligence and law-enforcement customers. The result is a public sector practice that’s now contributing to real mission
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: SAIC’s Ravi Dankanikote
Ravi Dankanikote Chief Growth Officer, SAIC Since becoming chief growth officer, Ravi Dankanikote has led an enterprise-wide transformation of SAIC’s growth strategy with a clear focus on the customer. His approach begins with understanding the customer’s mission, identifying where SAIC can create unique value, and bringing together the company’s deep technical expertise, engineering heritage and
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Aretum’s Sean DuGuay
Sean DuGuay Chief Growth Officer, Aretum Since joining Aretum as chief growth officer in 2024, Sean DuGuay has led the company’s transformation into a higher-growth, mission-focused federal technology contractor. His work includes helping to expand Aretum’s presence across the defense, homeland security and federal civilian markets by strengthening its business growth organization, recruiting experienced growth
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Ennoble First’s Titus Jeffries
Titus Jeffries Vice President of Growth and Strategy, Ennoble First Inc. Titus Jeffries’ biggest recent achievement has been helping Ennoble First mature its growth operating model during a pivotal stage of company expansion. “We have strengthened pipeline governance, improved capture discipline, elevated partner strategy, and established a more transparent revenue command center cadence that connects
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: REI Systems’ Wagish Bhartiya
Wagish Bhartiya Chief Growth Officer, REI Systems As chief growth officer, Wagish Bhartiya repositioned REI Systems from a company known primarily for custom government technology services into one that also brings proven, productized commercial solutions to agencies through faster acquisition pathways. Drawing on 10 years of leading REI’s product-development and commercialization business, Bhartiya led the
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Chugach Government Solutions’ Tom Fortunato
Tom Fortunato Vice President of Strategy and Growth, Chugach Government Solutions Tom Fortunato’s biggest recent achievement has been architecting and operationalizing a focused 2026 growth strategy across CGS’ lines of business — one that has already propelled the company past its 2025 sales results midway through 2026. This disciplined strategy has CGS on pace to
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: Nightwing’s Yvonne Vervaet
Yvonne Vervaet Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer, Nightwing Yvonne Vervaet recently restructured Nightwing’s strategy and growth organization to enable traditional business development at the scale, scope and tempo of a multi-billion-dollar organization, and to be able to meet customers’ needs in a time of rapidly changing acquisition policies and methods. With the organizational structure,
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026: ITC Federal’s Zhenia Klevitsky
Zhenia Klevitsky Chief Growth Officer, ITC Federal Zhenia Klevitsky has led ITC Federal’s growth strategy through a wave of major federal pursuits in 2026, including positions on several vehicles, plus a Financial Management QSMO designation on ITC’s General Services Administration schedule that narrows the field of competitors for future work. She is evolving ITC’s growth
Top BD & GM Execs to Watch in 2026
In a competitive government contracting market, companies work strategically, efficiently and receptively to win mission-driven contracts and grow — all while responding to evolving business challenges and sustaining best business practices. These companies serving federal agencies vary in size and solutions, but they share strong business acumen driven by their missions and customer needs. To
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