Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Northrop Grumman’s Jennifer Walsmith
Jennifer Walsmith Corporate Vice President of Cyber and Information Solutions, Northrop Grumman With Northrop Grumman continuing to rapidly grow and scale within the defense industry, Jennifer Walsmith ⏤ a 36-year intelligence industry veteran ⏤ has played a prime role in cyber and intelligence mission solutions. Her leadership role helps support the Defense Department and the
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: QinetiQ’s Richard Price
Richard Price Executive Vice President & General Manager of National Security and Intelligence, QinetiQ In just two months on the QinetiQ U.S. leadership team, Richard Price quickly assessed the team and chartered a course for immediate and impactful individual and organizational growth. The team is now hyperfocused on delivering phenomenal results to customers and continues
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: General Dynamics Mission Systems’ Brian Morrison
Brian Morrison Vice President & General Manager for Cyber Systems, General Dynamics Mission Systems Since taking the helm five years ago, Brian Morrison and his team have laser-focused on delivering next-generation encryption and data protection products, leading to significant wins across the portfolio. Those wins have resulted from a combination of customer focus and differentiated
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Guidehouse’s Christine Owen
Christine Owen Director, Guidehouse Christine Owen is known for her expertise in identity and access management and zero trust architecture across different sectors. Since 2020, she has worked on a zero trust project for a major federal department. The project recently gained enough support within the department to proceed with fully implementing the new system.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Parsons’ Nicholas Jackson
Nicholas Jackson Vice President of Cyber Collection and Analysis, Parsons Corp. Nicholas Jackson has been key in securing recent and anticipated awards for Parsons in classified projects. He helped the company grow significantly and is now focused on equipping his technical team with the resources it needs to succeed in fulfilling customer objectives. That includes
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Enlighten’s Steve Wagner
Steve Wagner Vice President of Operations, Enlighten, an HII company While guiding Enlighten through a third acquisition in four years, Steve Wagner’s focus on execution and innovation led his team to achieve significant compounded growth year over year. His team excelled at creating innovation addressing mission needs by expanding existing capabilities and developing new technologies
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Splunk’s Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz Chief Cybersecurity Advisor & Field Chief Technology Officer, Splunk Paul Kurtz’s biggest recent achievement was the incredibly rewarding work of bringing insights to customers that go beyond marketing materials. Historically, customers dealt with various challenges met with budget headwinds. Alongside his team, Kurtz has had the immense pleasure of working closely with customers
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: ECS’ Bill Geimer
Bill Geimer Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, ECS Bill Geimer’s biggest recent accomplishment is spearheading the remarkable growth of the company’s cybersecurity practice from 2022 to 2023, achieving a year-over-year growth of 50%. His team’s commitment to quality has earned it top ratings for nearly all the cybersecurity programs it manages. The team has also fostered
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Accenture Federal Services’ Amanda Satterwhite
Amanda Satterwhite Managing Director of Cyber Growth & Strategy, Accenture Federal Services In addition to Amanda Satterwhite leading the national security practice in cyber, she was recently promoted to co-lead the cybersecurity practice, which allows her to have a larger impact on the organization. “We’ve had a very strong contract win rate with our intelligence
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: GDIT’s John Sahlin
John Sahlin Vice President of Cyber Solutions, Defense Division, GDIT John Sahlin’s biggest achievement this year was leading a team to develop GDIT’s Everest Zero Trust Digital Accelerator that goes beyond slideware and platitudes and delivers real capability from the enterprise down to the tactical edge. Sahlin and his team constructed a flexible, modular architecture
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: CISA’s Jen Easterly
Jen Easterly Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly was nominated to her position by President Joe Biden in April 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021. As director, she oversees CISA’s efforts to manage risk to the nation’s cyber and physical infrastructure. Before CISA, Easterly was the head of
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: LMI’s Eric Rattanavong
Eric Rattanavong Vice President of Cybersecurity, LMI Eric Rattanavong helped formally create and launch LMI’s cybersecurity service line and enabled 60% growth in less than one year for LMI by diversifying cyber capabilities to support customer missions. “Generative AI marks the pivotal moment infosec has been eagerly awaiting ⏤ a catalyst for tangible victories in
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: ManTech’s Steven Kapinos
Steven Kapinos Vice President of Cognitive Cyber, ManTech Steven Kapinos’ team recently completed the development of a novel Insider threat capability meant to help provide full context to investigators. This is particularly important in zero trust environments, which deploy per-user encryption keying. They also employed a collaborative approach between their cyber defenders and insider threat
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023: Leidos’ Meghan Good
Meghan Good Vice President & Director of the Cyber Accelerator, Leidos Meghan Good recently achieved great success by improving Leidos’ customer cyber defense and innovating its mission ecosystems with new technology. She takes pride in the widespread customer popularity of the technology she planned and invested in. Good and her team created and implemented zero
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2023
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