Executive Spotlights

Patrick Roddy is fluent in scaling mid-sized businesses for growth, expansion and acquisition. As executive vice president, chief operating officer and, eventually, president of American Facilities Professionals, his work was recognized as propelling the company to be one of the fastest-growing private organizations in the U.S. by Inc. 5000. After real estate giant CBRE acquired J&J […] More

Jake Frazer has literally grown up in the government contracting industry. He began his career in the U.S. military as an end customer when he received support from the contractors while deployed with IFOR in Bosnia. He joined the industry in 1999 working for Brown & Root Services (now KBR), and he has worked across […] More

Jay Colavita is living the GovCon dream. After learning everything about the contracting world in a few increasingly important roles at major organizations like IBM’s federal segment, he began his own company, the Leesburg, Virginia-based IT services firm Vertosoft, in 2016. The company has become extremely successful given its small-to-mid size and humble beginnings. It was […] More

Three-decade technology industry vet Seth Eaton is an alumnus of Vectrus and PAE and has spent many years helping government contracting companies integrate cutting-edge tools. Eaton is currently vice president of technology innovation at Amentum. Since we last spoke with Eaton, he has been helping Amentum build a technology strategy that harnesses the collective experience, passion and creativity […] More

Sean Papso understands better than anyone how important AI is to U.S. national security. As executive vice president at Invictus Corporate Strategy & Growth, Papso is working with customers to integrate AI into cyber defenses at every level. Papso has over 15 years experience driving strategic expansion and operational excellence in defense and intelligence. He increased […] More

A U.S. Army veteran, Phil Miller spent the majority of his career in the immigration and national security space on the government side. In the days before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, he worked at the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for almost a decade, and then logged 15 years at U.S. […] More

Henry Choi has spent 30 years in the government services national security sector helping leading GovCons win business, expand technical leadership and invest in cutting-edge emerging technologies such as cyber and electronic warfare, space, airborne and C4ISR. With previous stops at leading defense contractors CACI and Northrop Grumman, Choi is now the vice president of business development […] More

Terry Nihart has a strong background in U.S. military service, having completed stints as an action officer in the Army’s Directorate of Operations, a battalion commander for the Commander of the Army’s only airborne military police battalion and as chief of operations in the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. For the last half-decade, Nihart has […] More

Since his days working in intelligence operations and imagery mission supervision, exploitation and analysis support for U.S. Central Command’s Air Forces Forward Operations in the 1990s and 2000s, Samuel Unger has been laser-focused on the intersection where defense and intelligence activities meet. This, coupled with training in systems engineering and solution architecture, has primed him for […] More

Kathryn Kienast is a recognizable name in government contracting, having proved her public sector bona fides in executive roles at Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and EY. Her expertise lies in modernization initiatives that have produced demonstrable financial, technology and mission outcomes for federal agencies across the spectrum. She came to Allocore midway through 2024, just […] More