Ryan Gillis, a cybersecurity executive, has joined cloud security company Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) as senior vice president and global head of government partnerships. In this role, he will build and oversee a team focused on advancing Zscaler’s policy, operational and technical relationships with governments worldwide, including improving collaborati...
Bill Cull, a 25-year public sector sales leader, has been named vice president of federal at Austin, Texas-based cybercrime analytics company SpyCloud. In this capacity, he will oversee SpyCloud’s growth strategy, build up the company’s government client base and channel program with system integrators, value-added resellers and distributors and...
By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and two-time Wash100 Award winner Dana Barnes was sought out by the world of information technology, rather than chasing it himself. He was recruited by IBM in the late 1990s, where he participated in the Business Development Professionals Program, initiating his passion for solving business problems with technology and a f...
The General Services Administration has named 14 representatives from public and private sectors as inaugural members of a federal panel that will advise and offer recommendations to the GSA administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s board and agencies with regard to the secure adoption of cloud computing products a...
Derrick Pledger, a senior vice president and chief information officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies seeking to drive digital modernization efforts to improve operations and address mission challenges should look for a vendor that is focused on building deep technical partnerships to develop new platforms and capabilities for agen...
The government contracting industry witnessed a number of strategic executive movements in 2022, including appointments and promotions to C-level roles as well as leadership changes meant to spur growth in public sector-focused practices. As the year draws to a close, Executive Mosaic‘s editorial team is sharing people moves that dominated the...
Marc Surette, a senior sales executive within the U.S. public sector, has joined Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) as regional vice president for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and Foreign Service Institute, according to his LinkedIn post. Surette previously worked at UiPath (NYSE: PATH) as regional VP for DOD and was responsible for growing t...
Seth Nylund, a more than 20-year federal sales leader and technology industry veteran, has joined the executive leadership team of Presidio’s federal arm as senior vice president of sales and business development, capture and proposal. He will report to Thad Anderson, general manager of Presidio Federal, as he oversees the company’s strategy and...
Derrick Pledger, vice president and director of the Digital Modernization Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said establishing deep strategic partnerships with other companies could help facilitate the development of new capabilities and platforms that could help address mission challenges facing federal agencies. Pledger wrote that there are three...
