Melanie Kyle Gingrich, formerly senior director of government products at recruitment company Monster Worldwide, has been named as the first vice president of training and development for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. Gingrich will oversee programs intended to educate and train contractors that want to comply wit...
KPMG’s federal advisory practice has named 25-year FBI veteran Maria Voreh as a director and appointed Pamela Powers, Michael Westphal and Chad Poppell to managing director positions. All four public service veterans will aim to help KPMG’s government clients transform business processes, the professional services firm said. Voreh led th...
Digital signal processing technology licensor Ceva has entered into a $33 million cash acquisition deal for Marlborough, Massachusetts-based chip development company Intrinsix in a strategy to expand into semiconductor market verticals. Ceva said Monday it aims to create a turnkey intellectual property platform for smart sensing and wireless connect...
Dr. William Kassler, a clinical and public health professional, has joined Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) as the company’s first U.S. government chief medical officer. He will oversee Palantir’s life sciences and public health teams across the company’s U.S. government and international business, Palantir said Monday. Shyam Sankar, chief o...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has promoted Jennifer Chronis, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient with over 25 years of experience in digital transformation, to the role of senior vice president of its public sector business from her most recent post at the company as VP of federal. The company said Wednesday Chronis will now be responsible for...
John Parikh, who has over 35 years of experience in delivering services to state and local governments as well as defense and civilian agencies, has joined Excelicon to serve as director of business development and capture, a newly created position in the company. Excelicon said Parikh will be responsible for driving growth across marketing, researc...
Israel named Amazon Web Services and Google as the winners of a multiyear, $1.2 billion project to establish governmentwide data center infrastructure for cloud computing services, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The two companies will help Israeli public-sector and defense agencies build domestic repositories of sensitive data under Project ...
Max Peterson, vice president of international sales for worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has been appointed as VP of worldwide public sector unit at AWS, The Economic Times reported Saturday. He will succeed Teresa Carlson, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient who will join Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) as president and chief growth officer. Pe...
Jay Bellissimo, chief operating officer for Vonage, has been named a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, the first time he’s received the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership and success driving company growth and advancing innovation in cloud communications and other key technologies. With more than thirty...
Chief information officers (CIO) have in recent years spearheaded several new initiatives in both the private and public sectors. The COVID-19 Pandemic has exasperated CIOs’ need to increase the speed of change in the technology landscape. Modernizing cyber, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, information technology (IT), data, and machine le...
