Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: IBM Consulting’s Alice Fakir
Alice Fakir Senior Partner & Vice President, Cybersecurity Services, US Federal Market for IBM Consulting Alice Fakir leads IBM’s efforts to help federal agencies use the latest AI-powered security tools to streamline operations, protect sensitive data and keep critical work moving without interruption — while ensuring they quickly see results from these advanced cybersecurity solutions.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Accenture Federal Services’ Amanda Satterwhite
Amanda “Mandy” Satterwhite Managing Director, Cyber Mission Enablement, Accenture Federal Services Amanda Satterwhite’s teams have expanded and scaled zero trust solutions across the Defense Department, delivering enterprise-level resilience across a complex and distributed environment. By integrating advanced identity, access and micro-segmentation strategies, she accelerated DOD’s shift to a proactive cybersecurity posture. Her teams’ continued insertion
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Core4ce’s Andrew Speir
Andrew Speir Vice President, Advanced Cyber Solutions, Core4ce Andrew Speir built Core4ce’s Advanced Cyber Solutions practice, a highly specialized team that delivers comprehensive cybersecurity services to federal and commercial clients. He connected customers with seasoned experts, many of whom helped pioneer the offensive security industry in the early 2000s, ensuring every engagement is grounded in
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Axonius Federal Systems’ Brian Meyer
Brian “Stretch” Meyer Field Chief Technology Officer, Axonius Federal Systems From the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s project management office for continuous diagnostics and mitigation, Brian “Stretch” Meyer positioned Axonius Federal Systems as the first vendor to automate core CDM program capabilities and streamline FISMA and FITARA visibility. This recognition wasn’t just a product win.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: CACI’s Brad Williams
Brad Williams Senior Vice President, Cyber, CACI Brad Williams is a strategic leader advancing CACI’s cyber domain to meet the evolving needs of national security missions. He draws on more than 30 years of experience building high-performing teams and delivering technology that drives measurable results for government customers. As senior vice president for CACI’s cyber
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Booz Allen’s Erica Banks
Erica Banks Vice President, Booz Allen In the wake of recent cyber aggression from the People’s Republic of China, Erica Banks’s team at Booz Allen is working with the federal government to deter efforts of state-sponsored cyber actors to disrupt federal networks. The team works with 13 federal agencies to prevent and protect against successful
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: ManTech’s Chris Cleary
Chris Cleary Vice President, Global Cyber Practice, ManTech Chris Cleary led the development of ManTech’s cyber strategy centered on the principles of ”Deter, Defend, Dominate.” This framework aligns with Defense Department and U.S. Cyber Command priorities by emphasizing a proactive posture that denies adversary objectives, defends critical infrastructure and dominates the cyber domain. It’s a strategy
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Ultra I&C’s Greg Rudy
Greg Rudy General Manager, Encryption, Ultra I&C In the past year, Greg Rudy led the expansion of Ultra I&C’s key management technologies into several high-priority defense programs. This innovative encryptor development will deliver measurable operational cost savings and enhanced system resilience in contested environments. The initiative further solidified Ultra I&C’s position as a trusted partner
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Abnormal AI’s James Yeager
James Yeager Vice President, Public Sector, Abnormal AI Leading Abnormal to achieve FedRAMP Moderate Authorization in just 256 days stands as a defining milestone for James Yeager. This designation empowers federal agencies to deploy Abnormal AI’s AI-native human behavior security platform quickly, requiring no rules, tuning or ongoing maintenance. It’s a key step toward modernizing
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Two Six Technologies’ Jeff Karrels
Jeff Karrels Senior Vice President of Cyber Systems, Two Six Technologies Multiple successful transitions of new technology from DARPA to operational customers marked Jeff Karrels’ recent work. His team partnered with customers to develop new technology platforms that transitioned from DARPA research programs into fielded solutions, including platforms that support tens of thousands of daily
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Lookout’s Jim Coyle
Jim Coyle US Public Sector CTO, Lookout Jim Coyle’s biggest recent achievement centers on being laser focused on raising public sector awareness around mobile threats, conducting intelligence threat briefings for customers, prospects, various media outlets, elected officials and intelligence organizations. Many don’t know of the prevalence, intensity or importance of mobile security, and that paradigm
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: BAE Systems’ John Murphy
John Murphy drives the strategic growth of cybersecurity products and cross-domain solutions for the defense and intelligence community at BAE Systems. These products are a key component of a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity, specifically for network boundary protection. Through customer collaboration and mission-focus, Murphy and the team significantly grew the CDS business by introducing new
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: The Aerospace Corp.’s Jim Myers
Jim Myers’ biggest recent achievement was delivering value to the U.S. government and commercial space communities in their pursuit of global space leadership and their development of new, evolving ecosystems in all domains of space, including cislunar and low Earth orbit, which are regions of widespread, growing interest. The Aerospace Corp. has shown the value
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Nightwing’s Jon Check
Jon Check Vice President of Cyber Protection Solutions, Nightwing Jon Check oversees a team that steps up to help customers navigate complex cyber challenges in real time — often without additional resources. His team introduced creative approaches to cyber training, mission execution and operational resilience that deliver meaningful results. It’s a testament to the team’s
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Leidos’ Josh Salmanson
Josh Salmanson Vice President, Defensive Cyber Practice, Leidos Josh Salmanson led the charge in advancing defensive cyber capabilities through automation, speed and scale. By integrating innovative technologies and processes, his team successfully enhanced detections, curated threat intelligence to inform risk mitigation vulnerabilities and strengthened the security posture of critical systems. Moving forward, he aims to
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Epoch Concepts’ Kevin Mackey
Kevin Mackey President, Epoch Concepts Kevin Mackey grew Epoch Concepts from a small team into a company of over 80 employees. Under his leadership, the company expanded its federal business and built a strong foundation in the private sector. Today, Epoch Concepts is gaining ground in the commercial market, using its expertise in cybersecurity, AI
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: ECS’ Mark Maglin
Mark Maglin Vice President, Cybersecurity Services for Defense and Intelligence, ECS “Vince Lombardi said: ‘Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.’ I always strive to push myself and my team just a bit further, to continuously improve,” said Mark Maglin. He’s most proud of his Army Endpoint Security Solution
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: GDIT’s Nabeela Barbari
Nabeela Barbari Vice President of Cyber, Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Citizenship Business Area, GDIT As a recent addition to GDIT, Nabeela Barbari’s greatest achievement was transitioning from the public to the private sector while maintaining her strong commitment to the homeland security mission. Her work spans law enforcement, continuity of government, cybersecurity and advancing national
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: GrammaTech’s Ray DeMeo
Ray DeMeo’s biggest recent achievement is shaping the business and advancing the message of GrammaTech’s ability to both secure and modernize critical software and cyber-physical systems. “We are now seeing this take root in customer engagement, strategic teaming agreements, and new contract wins,” he said. GrammaTech is also encouraged by the current administration’s priorities to reduce
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: ASRC Federal’s Ron A. Davis
Ron A. Davis Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, ASRC Federal Since joining ASRC Federal in September 2024, Ron Davis directed a comprehensive technology strategy to further strengthen the company’s cybersecurity posture and align with customer requirements. Given ASRC Federal’s broad portfolio and array of customers, Davis is leveraging his 25 years of experience to
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: HII Mission Technologies’ Ron Fodor
Ron Fodor Cyber & Intelligence Portfolio Leader, HII Mission Technologies Ron Fodor and his team play a vital role in offensive and defensive cyber operations, intelligence integration and cybersecurity modernization, focusing on strengthening cyber resilience and the seamless integration of new technologies and capabilities for customers. Fodor has over two decades of experience supporting offensive cyber
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: CGI Federal’s Stephen ‘Zak’ Zakowicz
Stephen “Zak” Zakowicz Senior Vice President, CGI Federal Stephen “Zak” Zakowicz oversees critical cybersecurity efforts to safeguard federal agencies from malicious actors. The work he leads plays a key role in the federal cybersecurity strategy to protect agencies and critical infrastructure from adversaries. In 2024, Zakowicz oversaw the implementation and operation of a real-time threat-hunting
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025: Microsoft’s Tim Langan
Tim Langan Corporate Vice President & Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for Government, Microsoft Prior to coming to Microsoft, Tim Langan was responsible for the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Crisis Response and International Operations Divisions. Even as his role changed, he considers one of his key achievements to be reinforcing that the mission remains the same.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2025
The cyber threat landscape keeps shifting: new threats, more vulnerabilities, smarter attacks. Government and industry are in a constant battle to spot risks early and defend critical systems before damage is done. As both sectors modernize legacy infrastructure and bring in emerging tech, cybersecurity leaders are the ones making it all work — strategically, efficiently
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