Top CIOs to Watch in 2022
In the highly competitive and evolving world of government contracting, companies need to stay ahead of the game and on top of the technology trends driving solutions to customers. But this innovation also needs to happen within and, considering how technology is reshaping the industry, the role of the chief information officer has never been
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Accenture Federal Services’ Ben Peavy
Ben Peavy CIO, Accenture Federal Services Along with his role at Accenture Federal Services, Ben Peavy was recently elected chairman of San Antonio’s Ready to Work Advisory Board. The $200 million program was approved by San Antonio voters in 2020 to offer thousands of residents pathways to high-quality careers. “Accenture Federal Services is extremely proud
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Leidos’ Derrick Pledger
Derrick Pledger CIO & Senior Vice President, Leidos As vice president and director of Leidos’ Digital Modernization Accelerator, Derrick Pledger drove the development of solutions currently helping the Army modernize, by putting maximum capabilities in the hands of the warfighter. To do so, Leidos is leveraging cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning and rapid software
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Guidehouse’s Chas Shaffer
Chas Shaffer Partner & CIO, Guidehouse As one of the founding partners of Guidehouse, Chas Shaffer has served as the company’s CIO since its inception. He continues to play an ongoing critical role in executing the firm’s strategy of distinction, enabling priorities around the employee experience and enhancing the firm’s operations. “Chas’s mix of technical
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: BlueHalo’s Matthew Ramsey
Matthew Ramsey CIO, BlueHalo Matt Ramsey spent over 35 years supporting the U.S. government and commercial sectors with unique technology solutions to enable offensive and defensive operations. Now, he drives BlueHalo’s IT and cybersecurity strategy to support the business and its processes as the company continues to grow. Ramsey’s career started in government, working in
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: SAIC’s Nathan Rogers
Nathan Rogers CIO & Senior Vice President, SAIC Since joining Science Applications International Corp. in 2019, Nathan Rogers has led the company’s efforts to modernize its enterprise systems and meet its customers’ business needs. During his first year with SAIC, he led a cross-collaboration team with the HR, IT and facilities functions to redesign the
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Jacobs’ Madhuri Andrews
Madhuri Andrews Chief Digital and Information Officer & Executive Vice President, Jacobs Madhuri Andrews has helped build a cohesive digital strategy for Jacobs’ global organization. She and her team started with the Digital Convergence Program, engaging thousands of employees around the world to align on a clear purpose and develop a business model that allows
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Maximus’ John Lambeth
John Lambeth CIO, Maximus Under John Lambeth’s leadership, his team moved Maximus to the cloud and implemented cloud-based systems during the pandemic. This differentiator put Maximus in the position to help state and federal customers meet an unprecedented surge in unemployment insurance, virus information and testing, and post-pandemic service inquiries. “One of the best ways
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Amentum’s Chico Moline
Chico Moline CIO, Amentum Chico Moline joined Amentum in March to lead the company’s enterprise transformation initiatives, and in that short time, his team has progressed the major integration of merging a recently acquired company into Amentum. “We are coming off a recent integration of two substantial companies and working currently through a third, while
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Booz Allen’s Brad Stone
Brad Stone CIO & Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton Just a year into the CIO role, Brad Stone has accelerated Booz Allen’s development into an ever more data-driven organization, with broad impact and measurable progress already. Simpler, more data-rich user experiences helped business decision-makers work more productively. New tools and infrastructure accelerated the delivery
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: L3Harris’ Jacqui Nevils
Jacqui Nevils CIO & Vice President, L3Harris Technologies Inc. Jacqui Nevils’ biggest recent achievement was removing the company’s last interconnect firewall – allowing L3Harris employees to finally collaborate with ease across the globe. Since merging in 2019, the multiple environments, sites, solutions and varying levels of security prevented L3Harris from truly collaborating on one WAN.
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: DXC Technology’s Kristie Grinnell
Kristie Grinnell CIO & Senior Vice President, DXC Technology One of Kristie Grinnell’s greatest achievements has been driving culture change through DXC’s core values to inspire her team to perform its best work. “Our core values are what drew me to a career at DXC,” Grinnell said. “When company values so closely intersect with my
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: CGI Federal’s John B. Owens
John B. Owens Senior Vice President, CGI Federal Over the past few years, John B. Owens successfully led his team in adapting CGI Federal’s signature solutions, Momentum and Sunflower to follow Agile SAFe standards. These modules render a human-centered experience, offering federal customers enhanced capabilities that respectively address daily contract challenges and oversee full asset
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Peraton’s Rebecca McHale
Rebecca McHale CIO, Peraton Rebecca McHale spent much of her career in cybersecurity, technology and data transformation. At every unexpected turn, she delivered a swift but thoughtful response – from emerging cyberthreats to consolidating 18,000 users into a streamlined single sign-on. Now, the team is building on these innovations to support Peraton’s distinct technology architecture.
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: HII’s Bharat Amin
Bharat Amin CIO & Executive Vice President, Huntington Ingalls Industries Each day, Bharat Amin leads approximately 800 technology and security professionals toward achieving the cybersecurity and IT mission: protecting, strengthening and enabling HII’s business, which impacts the nation’s freedom. “As EVP and CIO, I envision a technology strategy that enables a modern enterprise services approach
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: ASRC Federal’s Thomas Terjesen
Thomas “Tom” Terjesen CIO, Senior Vice President, ASRC Federal Leveraging 20 years of experience leading the integration of trustworthy IT infrastructure and processes across organizations, Tom Terjesen has made great strides to transform his team’s IT capabilities in his brief six-month tenure with the company. Terjesen developed ASRC Federal’s IT strategy for 2022, working to
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Serco’s Chris Sullivan
Chris Sullivan CIO & Senior Vice President, Serco Chris Sullivan led the go-live of Serco’s new Government Community Cloud – High Azure and M365 environments. He said the entire team has been collaborating and working hard for the past several months to set this up, and it is now in production and ready to support
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: ManTech’s Mike Uster
Mike Uster CIO & Senior Vice President, ManTech One of Mike Uster’s most notable recent achievements is delivering and implementing a complete zero trust architecture IT environment for ManTech’s internal and external customers. “One of the key milestones in ManTech’s more than 53-year history was achieved in November 2021 when Mike and his team moved
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Parsons’ Stuart Kippelman
Stuart Kippelman CIO, Parsons Corp. Stuart Kippelman and his team have been on a multiyear journey to transform Parsons into a complete digitally-enabled company. They have migrated the majority of applications and data to the cloud and cloud services, modernized and streamlined significant portions of the infrastructure, and rolled out many new automation tools and
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Empower AI’s Vasili Ikonomidis
Vasili Ikonomidis CIO, Empower AI Not only has Empower AI rebranded from the former NCI, but the company has also transformed and won its largest contract in company history – $807 million from the General Services Administration’s Office of Digital Infrastructure Technologies. Thanks to the leadership of Vasili Ikonomidis, these initiatives and several others helped
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: Arcfield’s Bob Schwendinger
Bob Schwendinger CIO, Arcfield Bob Schwendinger is no stranger to the world of acquisitions, mergers and divestitures — and the IT transitions, separations and integrations that follow. Over the last two decades, he played a critical role supporting over 20 transactions for large tech and government contracting companies. This, plus his experience at multiple startups,
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: ICF’s John George
John George CIO, ICF John George leads ICF’s IT organization in advancing the company’s digital modernization growth strategy: to provide clients with agile and scalable solutions, backed by deep industry expertise, which solve the world’s most complex and pressing challenges. Collaboration drives innovation, and George’s team makes that happen for ICF’s 8,000 experts in a
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: LMI’s Jeffrey Zack
Jeffrey Zack CIO, LMI At LMI, Jeffrey Zack has led the CIO organization transformation from siloed contributors to an integrated team partnering with internal customers to achieve their business goals. The CIO organization offers business value while controlling costs and reducing risk. “Our team has realigned strategically as IT business partners for our major internal
Top CIOs to Watch in 2022: GDIT’s James Hannah
James Hannah Global CIO & Senior Vice President for Supply Chain, GDIT James Hannah’s biggest recent achievement was the realignment of his organization to respond to the needs of the business in an agile manner. “We are now hyper-focused on the development of our IT strategic plan, aligning with the business and providing outcomes that
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