Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: ECS’ Asad Akhtar
Asad Akhtar Vice President, Federal Health Practice, ECS Asad Akhtar oversees teams that support scientific discoveries, biomedical breakthroughs and health care innovations to improve public health. They work with agencies across the Department of Health and Human Services, including NIH, ARPA-H, CMS and FDA, to reorganize, prioritize and reshape operations. The goal: delivering a more streamlined,
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: FDA’s Barclay P. Butler
Barclay P. Butler Deputy Commissioner for Operations & Chief Operating Officer, Food and Drug Administration Barclay Butler’s latest achievement is applying the lessons he learned while leading the consolidation of Army, Navy and Air Force hospitals into the Defense Health Agency to designing and launching FDA’s new shared services operating model. “Our single vision in
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Epoch Concepts’ Nick Kinsman
Nick Kinsman Director of Federal Healthcare & US Enterprise, Epoch Concepts Nick Kinsman recently aligned Epoch Concepts’ engineering and leadership teams to utilize its technical capabilities to improve veteran healthcare. In terms of aligning with the current administration’s priorities to reduce cost, streamline operations and improve government efficiency, Epoch Concepts is evaluating technology debt and
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Magellan Federal’s Elisa Kirkhorn
Elisa Kirkhorn Chief Growth Officer, Magellan Federal Meeting the evolving needs of military and federal civilian agencies doesn’t happen without building key processes and a strong organizational structure. For Elisa Kirkhorn, fulfilling that role by focusing on integrating human-centered, technology-enabled solutions that enhance mission readiness and operational efficiency was her most significant achievement this year.
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Microsoft Federal’s Dr. Thomas Osborne
Dr. Thomas Osborne Chief Medical Officer, Microsoft Federal For Dr. Thomas Osborne, supporting federal health care initiatives is about delivering the operational infrastructure and efficiencies needed to empower government today so federal employees have the bandwidth and resources to lead tomorrow’s advancements. It’s a key goal that leans into robust public-private partnerships and participation from
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Next Phase Solutions and Services’ Elizabeth McNamara
Elizabeth McNamara Health IT Innovation Officer, Next Phase Solutions and Services As a former federal employee with a long career in government contracting in the health care ecosystem, Elizabeth McNamara brings key perspectives to her role. But her most impactful recent achievement will be to enable technology and innovation to serve the public health mission.
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Philips’ Gil Smith
Gil Smith Senior Director of Government Health Program Development, Philips Gil Smith and his team are leading the integration of advanced AI technology into the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, greatly improving diagnostic capabilities for respiratory illnesses related to Burn Pit exposure and other toxins. Philips continues to solidify its leadership in government healthcare
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: GDIT’s Kamal Narang
Kamal Narang Senior Vice President, Federal Health Division, GDIT At the beginning of 2025, GDIT formed a separate business division for Federal Health with nearly 3,000 employees supporting over 20 government health agencies. Kamal Narang was named the lead of this division, which represents a culmination of his lifelong commitment to support the health and
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Amazon Web Services’ Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker Director, Federal Health, Science and Policy, Amazon Web Services Supporting the federal health care community during the COVID-19 pandemic was especially meaningful for Jamie Baker. From drug discovery and vaccine administration to rapidly scaling telemedicine platforms, his teams worked backward from some of the federal government’s biggest challenges to help the American people.
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Capgemini Government Solutions’ Larnie Yuson
Larnie Yuson Client Partner, Federal Health, Capgemini Government Solutions Larnie Yuson leads the strategic repositioning of Capgemini’s federal health care business to align with the current administration’s priorities around efficiency, modernization and outcomes. By leveraging technologies and solutions proven abroad — and drawing on Capgemini’s commercial health care expertise — she’s building a future-ready approach
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: RELI Group’s Ken Hofgesang
Ken Hofgesang Vice President of Health, RELI Group Ken Hofgesang’s team’s biggest achievement this year is the expansion and development of RELI Group’s Centers of Excellence, particularly in the health care space. These centers serve as specialized hubs that strengthen the company’s service delivery through focused expertise, innovative solutions and strategic support, ensuring mission success
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Peraton’s Lauren Toth
Lauren Toth Senior Director of Technology Program Management – Defense Enterprise & Health Solutions BU, DMHS Sector, Peraton Lauren Toth holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, and is working with her teams to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Fraud Prevention System, which helps CMS combat medical fraud, waste and abuse. This is
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Intel Corp.’s Mike Namvar
Mike Namvar Account Executive, Federal Healthcare, Intel Corp. Mike Namvar manages a $250 million portfolio covering endpoint, datacenter, cloud and supercomputer solutions. He works to equip the nation’s healthcare systems — including those serving the public, service members and veterans — with advanced technology that improves health outcomes. Under Namvar’s leadership, Intel is accelerating innovation
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Maximus’ Monica Rosser
Monica Rosser Executive Managing Director, Federal Health, Maximus Federal health agencies are entering a transformational moment, and leaders like Monica Rosser are helping to guide agencies through this pivotal time for healthcare. “This is a breakthrough moment because of the emerging technologies and new approaches to healthcare, such as a focus on a whole health
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: ASRC Federal’s Richard ‘Chip’ Terry
Richard “Chip” Terry Executive Position: Vice President and General Manager – Health Division, ASRC Federal Richard “Chip” Terry has driven innovation in U.S. government health care, supporting citizens through high-quality data management for cancer research and efforts to eliminate prescription and allergy errors for veterans. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former chief information
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Acentra Health’s Dr. Ryan Bosch
Dr. Ryan Bosch Chief Health and Informatics Officer, Acentra Health In 2025, Dr. Ryan Bosch led Acentra Health’s state Medicaid clients in using data and analytics to improve health outcomes and lower costs through the company’s “whole person, whole population,” or WP2, data model. This work builds on the launch of Acentra Health’s unified data
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Dr. Roman Salasznyk
Dr. Roman Salasznyk Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton In the drive to make federal healthcare faster, better and more cost-effective for the American people, Dr. Roman Salasznyk works at the heart of the action. A leader in Booz Allen’s Civil Health and Life Sciences businesses, Salasznyk brings cutting-edge technologies and multidisciplinary teams to accelerate
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: CGI’s Steven Sousa
Steven Sousa Senior Vice President of Health and Social Services, CGI Steven Sousa’s work for federal clients spans a broad array of agencies involved in healthcare and social services, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration. Following CGI’s launch of a Fraud, Waste and Abuse Prevention Platform in April,
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Guidehouse’s Sarah Garnett
Sarah Garnett Federal Health Leader, Guidehouse By strategically integrating commercial innovation with public sector expertise, Sarah Garnett built high-performing teams that embed deep domain knowledge — enabling smarter, faster and more scalable solutions. This unique approach has helped clients navigate today’s most complex healthcare challenges. Under her leadership, Guidehouse successfully deployed its Best in KLAS
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Accenture Federal Services’ Susie Rainey
Susie Rainey Managing Director and Account Lead for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Accenture Federal Services Susie Rainey has had many amazing achievements over the years, but she’s particularly proud of an upcoming release at the Department of Veterans Affairs that retires its 50-year-old mainframe and enables the agency to advance its ability to
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: ICF’s Terry McKittrick
Terry McKittrick Senior Vice President, Federal Health, ICF Terry McKittrick has been part of ICF’s health practice for nearly 20 years. During this time, ICF has been instrumental in helping clients enhance health and well-being and provide effective health and human services. For example, their work supporting the CDC’s BioSense platform helps monitor and analyze
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Abt Global’s ZeAmma Brathwaite
ZeAmma Brathwaite Vice President of Health, Abt Global One of ZeAmma Brathwaite’s biggest achievements is building a 20-year career in health care across a wide range of organizations, including nonprofits, consulting firms, associations and the federal government. These diverse experiences have given her a well-rounded perspective on the challenges and opportunities within the U.S. health
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025
The health care sector remains one of the most dynamic and impactful areas in government contracting. In 2024 and into 2025, companies partnered with the government to improve access, affordability and quality of care; address health disparities; and strengthen public health infrastructure. WashingtonExec’s Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025 recognizes leaders driving real
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