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    Pamela Drew: Exelis Factors Diversity in Company’s STEM Career Push

    Pamela Drew, executive vice president and president information systems at Exelis, has discussed the company’s initiative to advocate science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects among students in an interview with STEM Blog published Friday. Drew told STEM Blog that the company highlights contributions of STEM careers to different fields as it “is an important message to convey when encouraging our youth to pursue […] More

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    Executive Profile: Garrett Pagon, President and Co-Founder of OGSystems

    Garrett Pagon serves as president and co-founder of OGSystems, where he leads the company’s engineering and business development efforts. Pagon also leads OGS’ agile development and cloud computing programs and the firm credits him for work to secure contract awards from the Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, among other agencies. He served as a principal engineer of system architecture for […] More

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    Kay Kapoor of AT&T on Mentorship in GovCon, ‘Mobile First’ Shift in Gov’t

    Kay Kapoor joined AT&T in March 2013 to lead the telecommunications company’s federal business, which has seen several other GovCon and public sector veterans join the organization’s leadership team since then. Kapoor, herself a 25-year telecommunications and contracting veteran, is the recipient of this year’s ACT-IAC Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award in recognition of her mentorship […] More

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    Executive Profile: Chuck Prow, GM of IBM’s Global Government Business

    Chuck Prow serves as general manager of the global government business at IBM and is in charge of growth strategies, technology and service delivery to the government market, business partnerships, human capital and acquisition functions. He has nearly 30 years of experience in performance, innovation and transformation projects for both government and commercial clients. Prow previously led the […] More

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    Eric Wieman on STG’s Contract Vehicle Pursuits and Oracle Tech Adoption at Agencies

    Eric Wieman leads much of STG‘s work with civilian agencies in his role as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s civil sector. The company counts the departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security and State in a group of civilian customers that also includes agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Agency […] More

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    Executive Profile: Don Morrison, BAE US Intell Sector VP of Contracts & Supply Chain Mgmt

    Don Morrison serves as vice president of the contracts & supply chain management organization for BAE Systems Inc.’s intelligence and security sector. In this role, Morrison is responsible for all contracts, subcontracts, procurement and socio-economic activities for the British contractor’s U.S. subsidiary. Prior to his current leadership position, he was the VP of strategic development for The SI […] More

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    Executive Profile: Kate Tong, Public Sector Marketing Senior Manager at Cloudera

    Kate Tong serves as senior manager for public sector marketing at Cloudera, where she oversees the strategic direction of marketing communications to reach potential clients in the public sector. Her responsibilities include customer acquisition and retention, events and promotions, marketing programs, thought leadership and reseller and technology partnerships. Tong initially worked as senior manager of field marketing when she […] More

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    Executive Profile: Shirl Jenkins, EVP and Chief HR Officer at IntelliDyne

    Shirl Jenkins serves as executive vice president and chief human resources officer at IntelliDyne and oversees strategic development and senior management functions for the HR organization. Jenkins has led IntelliDyne’s human resource recruitment, retention and corporate culture expansion efforts since she joined the firm in 2009. IntelliDyne credits its industry awards such as the Helios Apollo HR Award for Innovative Employee Development & Engagement Practices, Alliance for […] More

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    Executive Profile: David Keffer, SRA CFO

    David Keffer serves as chief financial officer at SRA International and brings 11 years of financial, accounting and management experience to the role. He joined SRA’s financial planning and analysis group in 2003 and was the corporate controller prior to his promotion to CFO in September 2014. Keffer served as investor relations director at the company from 2006 to […] More

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    Mercedes Westcott on Cloudera’s Hadoop Focus, How to Advance Big Data in Gov’t

    Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Westcott discusses the adoption […] More

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    Profile: Ravi Dankanikote, CACI Business System Solutions Group VP

    Ravi Dankanikote serves as vice president for the business system solutions group at CACI International, where he oversees growth strategies and new business development functions. According to the company, he has constructed programs and mobilized teams to position the group into new markets. He focuses on large-scale information technology transformations, department-wide enterprise resource planning implementations and […] More

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    Executive Profile: John Lee, Carahsoft Cloud Services VP

    John Lee serves as vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft, a role he has held since he joined the company in 2011. The nearly-three decade government information technology veteran is responsible for work to deliver the company’s pay-as-you-go licensing model for companies such as VMware, Red Hat, Adobe and Symantec, potential cloud service providers, system integrators and government agencies. Lee previously spent 10 years at FedBid and served as […] More