Executive Moves

Kamal Dua, a finance and risk management professional with over three decades of audit and corporate governance experience, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as senior vice president and chief audit executive. He will oversee the company’s internal audit operation and report to Jerry Howe, Leidos’ general counsel, and to the …

Alan Stewart, a finance and integration leader in the government contracting industry, has joined Peraton as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Stewart will lead the company’s accounting, financial planning, auditing and government reporting functions and oversee external lender and audit relationships, Peraton said Monday. “Over the last four …

Cal Shintani, former chief growth officer of Highpoint Global, has been appointed to the same position at Arlington, Va.-based government services contractor Buchanan & Edwards. He will lead Buchanan & Edwards’ corporate business development, communications and marketing functions, as well as help its CEO and chief financial officer formulate merger-and-acquisition strategies, the …

Christopher Barnett, a former executive at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology segment, has joined Noblis as chief technology officer of the science, technology and strategy services contractor. He will oversee the Noblis technology, laboratories, innovation efforts, patent portfolio and centers of excellence sponsored research program, the nonprofit said Thursday. Amr ElSawy, Noblis president and CEO, …

Ian McCulloh, formerly a chief scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named chief data scientist within the analytics and applied intelligence practice at Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm. Bryan Rich, head of the analytics and applied intelligence practice at Accenture Federal Services, said in a statement …

Frank Dimina, who joined Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) in 2016, has been appointed VP of the technology firm’s public sector arm, GovCon Wire has learned. In his current role, Dimina oversees Splunk’s federal, state, local and higher education businesses. He previously managed the company’s work with federal civilian clients as area VP …

Sunil Ramchand, former CEO of Mission Essential, has joined VT Group as president and chief growth officer at the Chantilly, Va.-based defense technology contractor. He will oversee VT Group’s growth strategy and also serve as a member of its board of directors, the company said Wednesday. The U.S. Navy veteran previously served in …

Karoom Brown, a more than 17-year government and commercial health care market veteran, has been named chief global strategy, products and growth officer at Optum’s federal health services unit, GovCon Wire has learned. He will lead OptumServe‘s efforts to identify new business opportunities and expand technology offerings in the federal sector. Brown previously …

Grace Lee, former senior vice president of global human resources at biotechnology firm Charles River Laboratories (NYSE: CRL), has been appointed chief HR and diversity officer at at Cubic (NYSE: CUB). Her appointment is effective Oct. 29 and she will oversee Cubic’s diversity strategy as well as talent management, diversity strategy and organizational …

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has promoted Marietta Hannigan, a 19-year company veteran, to chief strategy and communications officer, and named Madhuri Andrews, former chief information officer at DynCorp International, as CIO. Steve Demetriou, Jacobs chairman and CEO, said in a statement published Tuesday the appointments are part of the company’s …