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IN THIS ISSUE:
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POLL: Will your holiday spending this year exceed last year? VOTE NOW!
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Executive Spotlight
Donna Dunlap
Xerox - Federal
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January 24th
Dr. Renato DiPentima
Been There Done That Series
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Most expensive Holiday Gift list
Do you have some extra cash to spend on gifts?
Has your executive comp package paid out better for you this year? Then you are going to want to check out Pocketchange.com. The website tracks the most expensive list from stuffed animals ($12,000 Wooly Mammoth) to $2,000 / lb chocolate.
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Duncan L. Niederauer
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Niederauer Speaking at POC
Speaking of big money, the big board boss Duncan Niederauer will be speaking at the Potomac Officers Club. All area Public company CFO’s and CEO’s are invited to meet Duncan in a VIP event provided you have an advance reservation. Please contact Sheri Page at the Potomac Officers Club for details (sheri@potomacofficersclub.com or 703-752-7449). POC members can register here.
Jim Ballard
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Jim Ballard Retires
In a surprise announcement, Perot System’s Jim Ballard announced his retirement. You can read and comment on a commentary in our blog.
Blogging Anyone?
We want to continue connecting on a personal level with our readers. Thus, we have launched the ExecutiveBiz blog. We will include regular posts of content including pictures of our past events that won’t always appear in our e-magazine. We encourage our readers to use FeedBurner and subscribe to our blog here. Join other readers in commenting on the area's most relevant business news, events, and executives.
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Executive Spotlight
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Tim Keenan
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Tim Keenan
CEO
HPTI
Tim Keenan is CEO of HPTI a fast growing government contracting company based in Reston, Va. The company is at about $61 million this year and with a staff of about 300 strong. We catch up with him to discuss his background, the hot trends he is tracking, and what would make a good acquisition for this company.
Click here for the full interview.
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Upcoming ExecutiveBiz Events
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Dr. Renato DiPentima: Been There Done That -
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Time: 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Location: Westwood Country Club
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Renny DiPentima
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ExecutiveBiz invites you to join us as we welcome Dr. Renato "Renny" DiPentima, former president and chief executive officer of SRA International Inc., as the fifth speaker in our newest members only series: "Been There Done That". This series focuses on bringing expert speakers to discuss strategies in successfully building and selling your business. During DiPentima's tenure at SRA, he helped the company grow from $135 million in revenue to $1.2 billion.
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Executive Spotlight
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Donna Dunlap
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Donna Dunlap
VP Sales
Xerox - Federal
Cost reduction without compromising the level of service is a challenge most everyone can relate to these days. It’s a challenge that Donna Dunlop of Xerox identifies as the hottest trend to manage and the core focus of her professional efforts. 27 years with any company is a rarity, even one so well established as Xerox – and Donna gives a timeline of her humble beginnings out of college to where she is today after almost 3 decades.
Click here for the full interview.
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Best of the Blog
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Best of the ExecutiveBiz Blog
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Jim Ballard’s book opens new chapter
December 19, 2007 by Brian Lustig
When some retiring executives make that difficult decision to ride off into the sunset, it is usually behind the wheel of a golf cart. This is not to say that these accomplished individuals completely detach from business pursuits, but more time to improve on a 6 handicap doesn’t hurt.
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Photos from Kidney Ball
December 15, 2007 by JD Kathuria
Each year, the Kidney Ball brings out the leaders in the government contracting space. Last month’s Kidney Ball was no exception. The event ended with entertainer Patti LaBelle rocking the 1,000 plus crowd. Some of the executives who attended included: Donna Morea of CGI, Anne Altman of IBM, Greg Baroni of Unisys, Jim Duffey of EDS, Linda Mills of Northrop Grumman, George Wilson of Stanley, Jim Ballard of Perot Systems, Mike Bradshaw of Google, Jim Sheaffer of CSC among many others.
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HUD Meets Google Maps
December 12, 2007 by John Stauffer
We’ve reported on the intersection of government and Web 2.0 technologies before on this blog. It’s an important and shifting landscape and nowhere is this dichotomy more evident than in Washington D.C.
Read and comment these posts and more at blog.executivebiz.com
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Recap of Gov. Warner Fundraiser Event
Governor Warner is one of the rare politicians that will receive support from both Republicans and Democrats. On Tuesday night, at the home of Ranvir Trehan in McLean about 50 local executives mostly from the the business community showed up to support Gov. Warner in his race for Senate in 08.
Gov. Warner talked about why he is running for the Senate and not for President. He indicated that he did not want to just be Sen. Harry Reid’s 55th vote in the Senate. Some of the attendees included: Don Upson, Sudhakar Shenoy of IMC, Gary Nakatomo of Base Technologies, Bahman Atefi of Alion Science, Bert Notini of Apptis, Shiv Krishnan of Indus, Arun Gupta of Colombia Capital, Sanju Bansal of Microstrategy, and Mike Saylor of Microstrategy.
Hemant Kanakia & Suresh Shenoy of IMC |
Ranvir Trehan and Gov. Warner |
Meena Krishnan, Gov. Mark Warner, & Shiv Krishnan of Indus |
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Special Announcements
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Consensus of the Crowd
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LAST WEEK
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Potomac Officers Club
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ExecutiveBiz works in partnership with The Potomac Officers Club. The Potomac Officers Club is a non-profit board of trade dedicated to improving business conditions in the Greater Washington area. For more infomation, please visit www.potomacofficersclub.com.
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Message from the Editor
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J.D. Kathuria
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Message from the Editor
This digital magazine is designed to serve the needs of the local business community. Please contact us with your content ideas or advertising requests. We currently reach nearly 50,000 area executives.
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jd@executivebiz.com
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