Executive Moves

Guidehouse has added two senior leaders to its defense and security segment, naming U.S. Navy technology leader Nirali Chawla and financial transformation specialist Angel Wang as partners to advance digital modernization and mission readiness. Who Is Nirali Chawla? Chawla brings more than 20 years of experience advising federal and commercial clients, including the Department of […] More

Riverside Research, an independent nonprofit focused on national security, has appointed Ralph Semmel to its board of trustees. Semmel brings to his new role extensive experience in national security, space exploration and research and development, Riverside Research said Monday. Ralph Semmel’s Career at Johns Hopkins APL Semmel served as director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory […] More

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Michael Hallinan has joined Caveonix as its new vice president of artificial intelligence. The AI-driven cyber compliance platform said Thursday Hallinan will leverage his extensive experience in cyber, AI, product and startup leadership to oversee the development of agentic AI capabilities and evolve the platform into a distributed, AI-centric, cloud-native system. “We’re absolutely […] More

The Chertoff Group has named three more executives — Mark Koumans, Phil Horvitz and James Smith — to its lineup of senior advisers. Chad Sweet, Chertoff CEO and co-founder, welcomed their addition to the company’s team, saying in a statement issued Thursday, “Each of them brings unique perspectives and proven leadership capabilities that will be […] More

Jim Haney has been selected as the new chief financial officer of Trident Solutions. The ATL Partners-backed company said Thursday Haney’s hiring is crucial to its efforts to establish itself as a focused, multi-domain defense electronics platform. Trident CEO Lorin Hattrup emphasized that Haney’s expertise in defense electronics and financial strategy will be crucial for […] More

Seekr Technologies has named Dave Myers as executive vice president of its Forward Deployed Engineering group. Seekr said Wednesday that Myers will lead a team tasked with supporting customers in integrating the company’s artificial intelligence offerings and accelerating time-to-value from the company’s AI products. Myers is based at Seekr’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters and reports directly […] More

Guidehouse has appointed Jon Burchard, Ray Hawat, Phil Nordgren and Jason Reilly as new partners in its Communities, Energy & Infrastructure, or CE&I, segment. The four appointees bring decades of experience in public sector modernization and transformation enabled by artificial intelligence, Guidehouse said Thursday. Who Are The New CE&I Partners Burchard brings to his new […] More

Matt Chong has taken on the role of senior vice president of public sector at Appian, the developer of a unified, low-code automation platform. “What drew me to Appian is the opportunity to help public sector customers and their constituents achieve actual business value with a holistic and modern AI-powered process platform,” Chong commented on […] More

Seasoned Kratos Defense & Security Solutions executive Brian Shepard, already with 20 years of service to the company, has been promoted as chief information officer. His new position covers all Kratos’ information security and compliance, as well as data communications, the company said Monday. Eric DeMarco, Kratos president and CEO, noted that Shepard has played […] More

ITC Federal announced on LinkedIn Monday that Sean Cox, a seasoned federal IT and mission support leader, has joined the company as its new vice president of FBI client relations. Cox will leverage more than three decades of law enforcement and national security experience to strengthen the company’s ability to provide government agencies with innovative, secure, mission-ready […] More

Seasoned defense sector executive Tom Kubit has announced on LinkedIn his appointment as vice president of military aircraft systems at SNC. Joining the aerospace and national security company makes him “excited and humbled,” he said in a LinkedIn post Monday. Prior Stints at Raytheon and L3 Harris Immediately before his SNC appointment, Kubit worked for […] More

Liz Martin has assumed new responsibilities as managing director and general manager for global defense at Amazon Web Services. She confirmed her new role on her LinkedIn profile. Who is Liz Martin? Martin is a technology sales executive with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. She previously served as managing director of […] More