Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Highlight Technologies’ Tracy Nguyen
Tracy Nguyen CFO, Highlight Technologies For Tracy Nguyen, leading the transition from a small 8(a) company to a large business Employee Ownership Plan-owned company was her biggest recent achievement. During her time at Highlight, she led a number of system changes for the company to help it reach the “next level” of maturity as a
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: CACI’s Jeff MacLauchlan
Jeff MacLauchlan Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, CACI With over 40 years of industry success, Jeff MacLauchlan brings invaluable knowledge and creative instincts to his role, driving CACI’s financial initiatives. His bias for action helps ensure that the company continually adapts to the evolving national security landscape while creating additional value for
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Ultra Intelligence & Communications’ Mladen Brkic
Mladen Brkic CFO, Ultra Intelligence & Communications Mladen Brkic’s most impactful recent work at Ultra Intelligence & Communications focused on encouraging finance leaders to prioritize business partnerships with all other functions. This effort enhanced the understanding of how sales and operations impact the organization’s financial outcomes. And it enabled the company to respond quickly to
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Agile Defense’s Bill Luebke
Bill Luebke CFO, Agile Defense Bill Luebke has been part of several transformational transactions throughout his career and worked with some amazing people, including serving Agile Defense as its chief financial officer. Since joining the team, Agile Defense worked hard to mature, modernize and adapt how Agile’s Finance team can better support day-to-day operational needs
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Maximus’ David Mutryn
David Mutryn CFO, Maximus David Mutryn became chief financial officer for Maximus in late 2021, and his leadership since has helped Maximus execute on financial and strategic priorities as the company sets new records for annual revenue. Across Maximus, Mutryn’s leadership has been recognized by fellow executives, who credit his insight, judgment and technical
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Millennium Corp.’s Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill CFO, Millennium Corp. Ryan Hill recently completed Millennium’s first acquisition, opening up a new growth avenue for the business. Since he joined in 2013, Millennium’s significant growth was purely organic. Millennium is currently the market leader in cyber red teaming and threat emulation across the Defense Department and is aggressively expanding into many
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Siemens Government Technologies’ Elizabeth Larson
Elizabeth Larson CFO, Siemens Government Technologies With the increasing demand for energy resulting from cloud and AI-enabled technologies supporting breakthroughs across industries, Elizabeth Larson is incredibly proud to lead a team that negotiated a key long-term contract with a data center customer using Siemens’ electrical distribution equipment. “As I’ve just transitioned into my CFO role
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Amentum’s Catalina Molina
Catalina Molina Senior Vice President Enterprise Finance, Amentum Tapped to lead Amentum’s integration management efforts for finance as the company prepares to merge with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, Catalina Molina said the work will be her most impactful recent achievement. As head of enterprise finance for Amentum, Molina is responsible
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Booz Allen’s Matt Calderone
Matt Calderone CFO, Booz Allen Hamilton In March 2024, Booz Allen reported its best fiscal year since the company’s 2010 IPO, continuing years of exceptional organic growth. As chief financial officer, Matt Calderone is focused on optimizing the firm’s financial performance, capital structure and related operations to implement VoLT (Velocity, Leadership, and Technology), which aims to
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: cBEYONData’s Gray Beck
Gray Beck CFO, cBEYONData Under Gray Beck’s financial leadership, cBEYONData has matured to the point it can sustain rapid growth at scale. “Over the last two quarters, we successfully recompeted our largest existing contract, while winning our largest contract in company history, while setting new company record lows for turnover for seven consecutive months, while
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Core4ce’s Bryant Thrift
Bryant Thrift CFO, Core4ce With Bryant Thrift leading financial operations, Core4ce is focused on growing and nurturing M&A opportunities and strategically partnering with companies that bring subject matter expertise to the team and expand core capabilities in support of customers’ mission objectives. “I’m proud of the work our team has done to date in this
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Aptive’s Steve Jonas
Steve Jonas CFO, Aptive Positioning Aptive for organic growth, Steve Jonas leads a team in aligning strategic initiatives across core and emerging markets. The alignment was crucial in the journey to elevate Aptive as a preeminent mid-market player in the federal professional services sector, Jonas said. “Steve’s vast experience and strategic acumen are instrumental as
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: SilverEdge’s Steve Dolski
Steve Dolski CFO, SilverEdge Steve Dolski leads a team that successfully drove financial strategies and integration efforts positioning SilverEdge as a premier provider of innovative and proprietary cybersecurity, software and intelligence solutions for the defense and intelligence community. SilverEdge CEO Robert Miller said Dolski’s leadership brought transformative financial strategies that drive growth and efficiency, as
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: BryceTech’s Mark Herzing
Mark Herzing CFO, BryceTech, LLC BryceTech’s Mark Herzing recently oversaw a long-term strategic planning process that positioned BryceTech as a leader among mid-tier providers of mission-critical services in aerospace technology, rapid defense technology development, CBRNE defense, and public health preparedness and response. It also drove up revenue. The initiative led to a 61% increase in
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Riverside Research’s Kathie Powers
Kathie Powers CFO, Riverside Research Riverside Research experienced double-digit year-over-year growth, winning every recompete it was eligible for in 2023. To support such growth, Kathie Powers expanded her department and mentored and developed what she describes as “a wonderful team of financial experts.” “This is one of the most rewarding parts of my job, and
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Thomson Reuters Special Services’ Chuck Hicks
Chuck Hicks CFO, Thomson Reuters Special Services, LLC The past two years at Thomson Reuters Special Services have been transformational, and Chuck Hicks’ financial acumen and phenomenal leadership were an integral part of the company’s steady growth. Since joining TRSS in 2023, his strategic vision and dedication transformed the company’s finances, positioning TRSS for continued
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Xcelerate Solutions’ Anne-Marie Evans
Anne-Marie Evans CFO, Xcelerate Solutions In February, Xcelerate Solutions acquired VMD Corp., tripling the size of Xcelerate and prompting the company to evaluate its systems, processes and a host of operations to determine what is best for the organization — from timekeeping to laptop security. Internally, Anne-Marie Evans is part of a leadership team treating
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Accenture Federal Services’ Rodney Crowe
Rodney Crowe CFO, Accenture Federal Services Rodney Crowe’s biggest recent achievement was supporting Accenture Federal Services’ acquisition of Cognosante, a Falls Church, Virginia-based provider of digital transformation and cloud modernization solutions for federal health, defense, intelligence and civilian agencies. With this acquisition, Accenture Federal Services created a new federal health portfolio to deliver specialized mission
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: ECS’ Ryan Garner
Ryan Garner CFO, ECS One of Ryan Garner’s top achievements will be continuously supporting ECS’ profitable growth. To that end, the CFO organization provides sound financial management, innovative technologies, robust controls, a solid supply chain, and top-tier contracting and legal advice. Its goal is to help ECS maintain a competitive edge in securing new business.
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Empower AI’s Pamela Rothka
Pamela Rothka CFO, Empower AI Pamela Rothka’s biggest recent achievement was implementing changes in technology, management and processes to align with the company’s new private equity owner’s investment thesis. She upgraded the technology platform to improve reporting and project management, replacing an unsupported, costly and difficult-to-use tool. The new platform integrates fully with necessary systems,
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: MAXISIQ’s Josh Montgomery
Josh Montgomery CFO, MAXISIQ The past couple of years at MAXISIQ were transformational based on Josh Montgomery’s steady hand and financial acumen. As a result of his team’s collective effort, the company experienced an increase in growth, profitability and cash-flow performance. Montgomery likes to say “details matter,” and that can be seen in his commitment
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: HII Mission Technologies’ Ashutosh Gokhale
Ashutosh Gokhale CFO & Senior Vice President of Business Management, HII Mission Technologies Ashutosh Gokhale works alongside the CEO to drive financial growth and is heavily involved in the strategy that led the transformation of HII Mission Technologies — and of HII. The division grew from 10% of HII’s revenues to nearly 25% in 2023. Strategically
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: BlackSky’s Henry Dubois
Henry Dubois CFO, BlackSky Henry Dubois became BlackSky’s CFO in 2022, using his corporate finance and executive leadership experience to guide the company’s rapid growth toward its goal of becoming the world’s top space-based intelligence firm. “The Earth observation industry is quickly shifting from static mapping to dynamic monitoring where our customers want to see
Top CFOs to Watch in 2024: Two Six Technologies’ Bob Kwaja
Bob Kwaja CFO, Two Six Technologies Since 2021, Bob Kwaja has overseen Two Six Technologies’ strategic acquisition of four companies, leading the extensive processes of due diligence, valuation, negotiations, acquisition financing and closings for all four transactions. While the acquired companies strategically complement and expand Two Six’s capabilities, products and customers, there were significant challenges
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