Executive Spotlights

Jen Sovada’s 25 years in the Air Force taught her immensely valuable skills. Among them, it taught Sovada, a retired colonel and intelligence officer, the essential qualities for success in GovCon: building trust, investing in people’s growth and creating shared purpose. Sovada, as general manager for public sector at Claroty, is applying those skills while leading […] More

Yvonne Vervaet, Nightwing chief growth officer, knows fostering rescue dogs is a lot like being an accomplished GovCon executive. Both jobs take time, stability and consistent guidance to bring success. One can’t just expect instant results. Both involve seeing potential where others don’t. A good foster sees past fear and stress and recognizes the potential for […] More

Sam Hutton is co-founder of Glasswall, a global cybersecurity technology company. Hutton was the organization’s first chief technology officer and he offers equally fierce expertise in the nuts and bolts of tech systems as he does business growth. As such, he is now chief growth officer at Glasswall, a position he’s held for three and […] More

Aaron Allgeyer, T2S Solutions vice president for strategic growth, has been off to a flying start since joining the company in March. A 22-year Air Force intelligence veteran, he’s quickly leveraged his USAF experience to expand the company’s exposure to service and intelligence community senior leaders. Allgeyer is responsible for T2S Solutions’ strategy and execution of […] More

Elsevier began as a publisher of scientific materials but the purview of the Amsterdam-based company has evolved to encompass thousands of team members across the world developing data platforms and analytic practices and partnering extensively with major government and academic organizations. Gregory Mirabella directs the marketing segment for funders and government at Elsevier. In this role, […] More

The cyber threat landscape is complex and constantly evolving. For Brad Medairy, an executive vice president who leads Booz Allen’s national cyber business, this poses opportunities and threats alike. And now is the time for the United States to prepare for both. In an Executive Spotlight interview, Medairy, who has been with Booz Allen for a […] More

Tang Pham, AT&T vice president of defense, offers a uniquely strategic lens on the evolving GovCon landscape, one shaped by his extensive experience at the intersection of government services and commercial innovation. Throughout his career, Pham has focused on building scalable and differentiated solutions that go beyond traditional staffing models, recognizing that true mission impact is […] More

Josh Jackson has accomplished a great deal in the more-than-three years since Executive Mosaic last connected with him for a Spotlight interview. Since then, the SAIC executive vice president’s focus has shifted from working with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps as clients to overseeing the company’s Army business vertical. Jackson, who has been with SAIC for […] More

Engineer-by-trade and now seasoned executive leader Hector Collazo has been busy. Over the last couple of years, he has solidified his technical expertise in a pair of C-suite technology roles at growing organizations, after two decades of IT and hardware mastery. (We checked in with him a couple of times while he was in a prior role at […] More