Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Google Public Sector’s Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon Managing Director, Customer Engineering, Google Public Sector Elizabeth Moon has a private sector background and is driven by the belief that public sector employees deserve the same cutting-edge technology and 10x thinking offered to commercial customers. Through customers like the NIH, Google Public Sector is providing powerful cloud services, such as generative AI
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Amazon Web Services’ Renzo Rodriguez
Renzo Rodriguez Director – Federal Technology & Innovation, Amazon Web Services Renzo Rodriguez led the development and launch of Mission Innovation powered by AWS, a program that positions AWS as a trusted mission partner for government agencies. His team delivered key solutions, including the Tactical Edge Mission Framework for austere environments, the Supply Chain Command
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Microsoft’s Kent Cunningham
Kent Cunningham Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft US Civilian Government Kent Cunningham says his biggest recent achievement —“outside of my amazing family” — is leading efforts to drive meaningful impact across industries by using advanced cloud and AI technologies to solve real-world challenges. Cunningham has worked with top minds to solve complex challenges for global leaders
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: ECS’ Ross Serino
Ross Serino Vice President of Cloud Operations, ECS One of Ross Serino and his team’s biggest recent achievements has been helping drive the adoption of emerging technology at ECS to ensure it operates securely and efficiently in a production environment. They developed and integrated ECS Atlas — an innovative solution using a visual search interface
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Delie Minaie
Delie Minaie Senior Vice President of Digital and Cloud Solutions, Citizen Services, Booz Allen Hamilton Delie Minaie works at the intersection of innovation, orchestration and the critical infrastructure of national prosperity. As a leader within Booz Allen’s Citizen Services business, she’s helping move the U.S. government’s financial agencies to the cloud — swiftly, securely and
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Cohesity’s Marlon Hughes
Marlon Hughes Vice President of Public Sector Systems Engineering, Cohesity Marlon Hughes recently led a multifaceted team to secure FedRAMP authorization for Cohesity, a critical milestone for the company. He successfully navigated complex coordination across internal teams — including legal, marketing, engineering, and executive leadership — while also managing consultants and government customers to ensure
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: ICF’s Janak Kalaria
Janak Kalaria Vice President of Digital Transformation, Analytics & Emerging Technologies, ICF Janak Kalaria’s ICF team has crafted a multi-cloud, AI-enabled solution that accelerates legacy system modernization with a primary focus on automation and cost optimization. This modular, turnkey solution earned a stripe when battle tested during the recent western wildfires. “Now, we are implementing
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Maximus’ Neil Kronimus
Neil Kronimus Senior Vice President, Maximus For federal agencies, the cloud has been the catalyst for implementing new solutions and emerging technologies to better meet today’s needs. Few know this space better than Neil Kronimus, a leader in federal IT and cloud technology for decades. In recent years, he has been recognized with several industry
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: LMI’s Clark Spencer
Clark Spencer Vice President of Digital Solutions, LMI Clark Spencer’s top recent achievement was leading LMI’s digital solutions organization to double its growth over the past two years. By anticipating the increasing demand for cloud, platform and agile solutions, the team has rapidly deployed secure, repeatable platform solutions at scale, he said. This proactive approach,
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Onyx Point’s Roopangi Kadakia
Roopangi Kadakia Vice President, Onyx Point, LLC Roopangi Kadakia led a team of security engineers continually enhancing cloud security and compliance posture for all three cloud platforms (Azure, GCP and AWS) while leading a new initiative to incorporate AI security and API security testing into the DevSecOps processes. Kadakia is also establishing a cybersecurity cloud
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Omni Federal’s Rob Gordon
Rob Gordon Chief Technology Officer, Omni Federal Over the past year, Rob Gordon and his team worked with their Defense Department customers to deliver an accredited, AI-enabled, cloud-based data dissemination API system. These capabilities have led to direct and measurable improvements to mission efficiency while also improving the security posture of many mission-critical systems. “Our
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: SAIC’s Ravi Raghava
Ravi Raghava Chief Technology Officer, Civilian Business Group, SAIC Ravi Raghava is driving innovation at the intersection of AI, cloud and cyber defense, tackling mission-critical challenges in the federal sector and beyond. With deep multi-cloud expertise, Raghava is shaping resilient, scalable solutions that enhance citizen experience, national security, mission health solutions and energy resilience. As
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Peraton’s Stu Hammer
Stu Hammer Senior Director of Digital Transformation and Cloud Services, Peraton Stu Hammer leads the strategy for Peraton’s digital transformation portfolio, focusing on areas like hybrid multi-cloud transformation, application modernization, AI, cybersecurity and intelligent automation. His key recent achievement was leading the enhancement and deployment of Peraton’s Digital Transformation and Cloud Services portfolio, which includes
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: PingWind’s Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra Chief Technology Officer, PingWind Inc. In a boost to PingWind’s status as a trusted partner, the company obtained ISO 9001, 20000 and 27001 certifications under Luis Ibarra’s leadership, plus CMMI Level 3 for Service and Development appraisals, while simultaneously driving efforts toward CMMC Level 2 certification. “These accomplishments demonstrate our commitment to delivering
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Two Six Technologies’ Madison Bahmer
Madison Bahmer Senior Principal Enterprise Architect, Two Six Technologies Madison Bahmer and his team have worked to standardize approaches, techniques and infrastructure related to Two Six Technologies applications. “Our teams come from a variety of different backgrounds and skill sets, and being able to establish common ground to stand on makes interoperability across our product
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Parsons Corp.’s Jenn Bergstrom
Jenn Bergstrom Vice President, Cloud and Data Solutions, Parsons Corp. Jenn Bergstrom launched Parsons’ Bright Sky Federal Cloud Strategy, established Parsons’ Cloud Center of Excellence and rolled out a cloud certification initiative across the federal segment that more than doubled the number of cloud-certified individuals in nine months. This upskilling initiative was powered by a
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: CGI Federal’s John Nemoto
John Nemoto Vice President, CGI Federal As a senior cloud and cybersecurity expert, John Nemoto provides innovative cloud-based solutions for clients in the national security sector, including the Department of Homeland Security. Nemoto spent the past several years developing cloud-based cybersecurity services, partnering with leading commercial cloud providers to deliver cybersecurity solutions to over 65
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: BAE Systems’ Douglas Steil
Douglas Steil General Manager & Senior Director of Cybersecurity Products, BAE Systems Douglas Steil leads the cybersecurity products team at the forefront of developing accredited cross-domain solutions for their defense and intelligence customers. With today’s evolving and complex cybersecurity challenges, a holistic approach across the entire IT infrastructure environment is required – from endpoints and
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Accenture Federal Services’ Dave Stepp
Dave Stepp Cloud & Engineering Lead, Accenture Federal Services Dave Stepp’s best work highlights the impact better technology experiences can create. His top recent achievement was innovating how Accenture Federal Services provides a unified command and control center for secure, efficient multi-cloud operations for federal agencies. The company’s Cloud Application Lifecycle Manager, or CALM, combines
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Leidos’ Blake Nelson
Blake Nelson Vice President Cloud and Data Center Practice Leader, Leidos Blake Nelson recently established the Leidos Cloud and Data Center Practice, focusing on delivering repeatable multi-cloud solutions. These offerings encompass automation, operations, financial management and migration factories, empowering federal customers to achieve cost savings and accelerated value realization. The focus will be on unlocking
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Netskope’s Christian Apostolou
Christian Apostolou Senior Director of Federal Sales, Netskope Driving Netskope’s federal market expansion following its FedRAMP High Authorization for Netskope GovCloud in early 2024 is a key company milestone. This certification confirmed what customers already knew: Netskope delivers secure, high-performance cloud solutions that help government agencies fulfill critical missions while protecting sensitive data. The authorization
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025
Once a buzzword, now the norm, cloud has become the standard for digital environments everywhere. As government agencies use this technology to modernize and transform, IT leaders drive the push to adopt and maintain secure, cloud-based enterprises. We’ve identified those in industry and government ensuring the nation is equipped with the tools it needs to
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