About
Government Contracting News Wire – GovConWire – provides up-to-the-minute coverage of news that affects the government contracting community. Published by Executive Mosaic , we strive to provide coverage of the corporations and executives that serve this nation through the products they build, the visions they share, the jobs they create and the improvements they bring to the lives of Americans. We encourage you to follow our updates and welcome your feedback on our articles and content.
GovConWire readers can expect to get regular, objective and timely news content about the executives and companies that serve the U.S. government and it agencies. Specifically, we cover the executives of government contracting firms, government contracting executives themselves, government executives and the agencies they support. From time to time, we also cover technology or management news as it relates to the government contracting industry.
Our effort overall is to highlight and support the millions of Americans that keep our country working and help facilitate the connections between government and the private community that keeps our economy vibrant.
GovConWire Editorial Staff
President – Jim Garrettson
Jim Garrettson is the CEO and Publisher of Executive Mosaic, publisher of GovConWire. He founded Executive Mosaic in 2008 to build an exclusive forum and cross media platform for top executives in Washington’s U.S. government contracting community. He has created a prestigious series of private networking communities for top executives, and serves as Publisher for the growing number of Executive Mosaic online and print media outlets, including GovConWire.com, TheNewNewInternet.com, ExecutiveGov.com GovConExecutive.com, and a popular print magazine, GovConExec.
As a precursor to Executive Mosaic, Garrettson also founded the Potomac Officers Club (POC) in 2002, a 501(c)6 non-profit organization whose mission is “To weave an executive fabric that benefits our local business community”. That organization and the associated e-magazine he co-founded in 2003 (ExecutiveBiz) served a pronounced need at the time for connecting the Washington business community.
A serial entrepreneur and veteran of the fast-growth technology and telecommunications industries, Garrettson is Founder and President of TownHall Teleconferencing, and earlier served as EVP of Sales and Marketing at Net2000 Communications, SVP of North American Sales for Cidera, President of Teleglobe Business Solutions, and SVP of Sales at Qwest Communications where he ran the National General Business sales force.
Gerry Simone — Editor-in-Chief
Gerry Simone was named Editor-in-Chief of Executive Mosaic’s portfolio of print and online media properties in December 2010. Simone sets strategic direction and editorial content.
Prior to joining Executive Mosaic, Simone was a respected figure in business and federal IT media relations, as well as financial communications for area technology companies, garnering high profile coverage in government and national business media such as Federal News Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNBC, USA Today, The New York Times, Business Week, and top consumer technology media.
Long before online news media became the mainstay, Simone was an early leader in the space. As chief communications officer of Hearst-backed iVillage-Women.com Networks (now NBC Universal), Simone orchestrated campaigns to launch major cross-media partnerships with Lifetime TV and CBS, as well as joint ventures in the U.K. and Asia.
Simone graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. and M.A. in Communications.
Executive Mosaic properties include: GovConWire.com, TheNewNewInternet.com, ExecutiveGov.com, ExecutiveBiz.com, GovConExecutive.com, and the print magazine, GovConExec.
Tim Watson – Lead Writer
Tim Watson is the lead writer for GovConWire where he contributes articles on a range of topics including contract wins, executive moves and M&A activity. Tim has had several byline articles published in USA Today’s Money Section and has completed freelance work for the Valley Business Front, a Roanoke, Va.-based business magazine. He previously interned under the public information officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Tim graduated from Washington and Lee University in May 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in business-journalism.
Katie Noland – Writer
Katie Noland is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Virginia Tech with a bachelors degree in English focusing on Creative Writing. She has been a contributing writer to the Virginia Tech website and a reporter for the Collegiate Times with creative pieces published in both the National Society of Collegiate Scholars newsletter and Virginia Tech’s Silhouette.
Aquala Bogan – Writer
Aquala Bogan studied broadcast journalism at California State University, Northridge, and contributed to the school’s TV news show and radio station, writing and anchoring stories broadcast throughout the Los Angeles area. Through American University’s Washington Semester Program, she interned at C-SPAN and gained more knowledge about business news through an internship with CNBC.
Ross Wilkers – Writer
Ross Wilkers is a Northern Virginia native who decided to stay in the region. He graduated from George Mason University, Fairfax, in 2010 with a B.A. in communication with a journalism concentration. He wrote stories on government and local business for the Patch.com website based in Manassas and the Fauquier Times- Democrat, a twice-weekly newspaper published in Warrenton.
Gino Troiani – Writer
Gino currently serves as a staff writer/blogger with professional experience in print and online journalism, broadcasting, multimedia production and the culinary arts.
Gino has worked as a correspondent for The Times Leader, out of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he was responsible for covering news stories in both print and multimedia formats. At The State of The USA, a non-profit statistical organization is based in the DC metro area, he was responsible for creating and editing graphics and organizing mass quantities raw data and statistics.
Gino earned his bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Wilkes University.
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