Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: GM Defense’s John ‘JD’ Johnson
John “JD” Johnson Vice President of Government Solutions & Strategy, GM Defense LLC John “JD” Johnson’s biggest recent achievement is expanding GM Defense’s ability to get commercial capability into the hands of global defense and government customers through the GM Defense-designed Infantry Squad Vehicle and the next-generation Suburban Shield. The shield provides protected diplomatic security
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: BlackSky’s Lyn Chassagne
Lyn Chassagne Senior Vice President of Marketing & Customer Experience, BlackSky Lyn Chassagne was the first in her family to earn a 4-year college degree directly after high school. As the daughter of two teenage parents, her life exemplifies resilience and determination. “This accomplishment is a testament to the strength and support of my family,
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Experian’s Tara Romeo
Tara Romeo Vice President of Public Sector, Experian Experian’s Public Sector offers a variety of solutions aimed at improving the productivity and impact of government agencies. Key areas of focus include identity verification, fraud prevention, employment and income verification, as well as economic trend and analysis information. The company’s solutions aspire to enhance the efficiency,
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Infoblox’s Mark Senell
Mark Senell President of Federal & Vice President of US Public Sector, Infoblox When Mark Senell started a new role as president of federal and VP of public sector at Infoblox, he stepped into a position that allowed him to lead strategic initiatives, drive growth and strengthen relationships within the public sector. “I’m excited to
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Bugcrowd’s Kent Wilson
Kent Wilson Vice President of Global Public Sector, Bugcrowd 2024 was a year of many firsts, both for Kent Wilson personally and for his public sector team at Bugcrowd. They launched the U.S. government’s first combined continuous bug bounty and rapid response program for the Defense Department, supported the rollout of the first AI bias
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: NetApp’s Michelle Rudnicki
Michelle Rudnicki President, NetApp U.S. Public Sector, Inc CIOs continue to prioritize infrastructure and application modernization to increase security, boost agility and enhance digital government. Under Michelle Rudnicki’s leadership, NetApp U.S. Public Sector expanded its offerings with new technologies, compliance and certifications to help customers build secure, future-ready data infrastructures that support their missions with
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Exiger’s Tony D’Angelo
Tony D’Angelo Senior Vice President of Government Sales, Exiger Tony D’Angelo’s biggest recent achievement is the team he built during his two years at Exiger. As the company’s focus shifted from consulting and advisory to a traditional SaaS go-to-market strategy, D’Angelo led the creation of a completely new sales function. This team quickly met the
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: ZeroFox’s Tristen Yancey
Tristen Yancey Vice President of Public Sector, ZeroFox Tristen Yancey helps government executives protect their online presence and their agencies from rising digital threats like impersonation scams that damage reputations. Her expertise is essential in an era where online risks are growing. “The lightbulb moment when they realize that we can help them solve this
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: RegScale’s Steven A. Coles
Steven A. Coles President & GM, RegScale Driving innovation to the mission is Steven Coles’ biggest achievement, made possible by streamlining authorization to operate and FedRAMP processes to reduce timelines to just three months while cutting costs by over 300%. “These efforts have accelerated the delivery of critical technologies to support mission success,” he said.
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Sayari’s Steve Nguyen
Steve Nguyen General Manager of Government Business Unit, Sayari In a global economy, tracking bad actors, managing supply chain risks, exposing illicit finance and dismantling fentanyl networks is urgent. Foreign businesses must understand the Chinese government’s influence on domestic and international companies. Steve Nguyen emphasizes that with a new administration in 2025, addressing trade policies,
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Everfox’s Shaun Bierweiler
Shaun Bierweiler Chief Revenue Officer, Everfox Shaun Bierweiler’s biggest recent achievement was building a successful go-to-market and customer success team for Everfox’s solutions addressing the most complex cyberthreats in the public and commercial sectors. In early 2024, TPG carved out Forcepoint Federal from Forcepoint to create Everfox. Since joining the company, Bierweiler developed the go-to-market
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Icertis’ Ryan Donley
Ryan Donley Vice President of Public Sector, Icertis Ryan Donley’s impact at Icertis is huge. He formalized the public sector business unit at Icertis, consolidating operations focused solely on the industry while also leading global expansion initiatives to extend Icertis’s impact outside the U.S. He also attracted new talent steeped in the industry, now combining
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Keeper Security’s Paul Aronhime
Paul Aronhime Senior Vice President of Federal Sector, Keeper Security As an Army veteran, Paul Aronhime always worked in some capacity to secure the nation’s most critical assets. “The opposite of readiness is risk, which results in vulnerability, uncertainty and potential failure,” he said. “When readiness is absent, the likelihood of negative outcomes increases, affecting
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Accenture Federal Services’ Ron Ash
Ron Ash CEO, Accenture Federal Services Stepping into the role of CEO at Accenture Federal Services in September was a privilege Ron Ash doesn’t take lightly. “I am incredibly proud to be part of a team that is helping our clients keep the country safe, make life better for people and their families, and make
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Nokia Federal Solutions’ Mike Loomis
Mike Loomis CEO, Nokia Federal Solutions Mike Loomis isn’t just CEO of Nokia Federal Solutions. He also helped launch it, transforming the company into a key partner for the federal government by aligning Nokia’s commercial 5G innovations with the federal requirements. Through the acquisition and integration of the Fenix Group, Loomis led the development of
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Government Workday’s Lynn Martin
Lynn Martin Chief Growth Officer, Government Workday At Workday, Lynn Martin championed a pivotal partnership with the Defense Intelligence Agency, implementing a secure SaaS human capital management platform. This solution revolutionized human resources processes, enabling the agency to create a responsive, inclusive and motivated workforce to address the intelligence community’s shifting demands. Workday CEO Carl
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Qualtrics’ Matt Chong
Matt Chong Senior Vice President of Public Sector, Qualtrics As senior vice president of public sector, Matt Chong led transformative initiatives that empower government agencies and educational institutions to meaningfully engage with stakeholders and gain actionable insights from operational and experiential data. These efforts include deploying tailored solutions to address critical challenges — ranging from
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: UiPath’s Mike Daniels
Mike Daniels Senior Vice President of Public Sector, UiPath Mike Daniels had several highlights over the past year. One was driving the business to achieve FedRAMP certification for UiPath’s Agentic Automation Platform, enabling federal agencies to adopt the company’s innovations and expand intelligent automation at scale. “I am also proud of our work to deploy
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Google Public Sector’s Leigh Palmer
Leigh Palmer Vice President, Google Public Sector Building a team full of innovators was Leigh Palmer’s key to unlocking huge momentum in authorizations this past year as Google Public Sector continues bringing value to customers. “Exceptional teams are built by design, not by chance,” Palmer said. “Focus on your people and culture, and they will
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Cohesity’s Kevin Youngquist
Kevin Youngquist Vice President of Public Sector, Cohesity Veritas merged with Cohesity during 2024. Both companies continued to grow through the transition as leadership teams stayed focused on the customer mission and protecting the data of the largest public organizations in the world. Cohesity Chief Sales Officer Kit Beall said Kevin Youngquist is a committed
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: TransUnion’s Kevin Kottman
Kevin Kottman Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector, TransUnion Fraud costs the federal government up to $521 billion annually. In 2024, Kevin Kottman’s proudest achievement was leading the Public Sector team during the launch of TransUnion’s OneTru, a solution enablement platform designed to combat this staggering challenge. By leveraging TransUnion’s authoritative data assets, cloud-enabled
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Socure’s Jordan Burris
Jordan Burris General Manager of Public Sector, Socure Jordan Burris has worked with government leaders to prevent millions in taxpayer fraud losses since taking over the leadership of Socure’s public sector business. “I am honored to lead a team driving a generational transformation in identity across the public sector, collaborating with more than 30 federal
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Equinix’s Jim Gwiazda
Jim Gwiazda Vice President of Public Sector, Equinix Jim Gwiazda’s team delivered strong results in 2024 by building strategic partnerships with public sector agencies, integrators and technology providers to solve real-world problems efficiently. These collaborations fostered knowledge sharing and developed innovative solutions that directly impacted customers’ missions. “As the leader of Equinix’s public sector growth
Top Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2025: Guidehouse’s Jeff Bankowski
Jeff Bankowski Partner, Guidehouse Jeff Bankowski has worked with over 20 state governments and the largest cities and counties in the U.S., advising governors and senior officials and presenting to legislative committees on grants management, enterprise risk, operational efficiency and digital transformation. Recognized as a leader in his field, Bankowski was recently named to The
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