Canada-based flight training systems provider CAE (NYSE: CAE) has named Nick Leontidis, a 36-year company veteran, as chief operating officer as part of senior leadership changes meant to enhance execution and synergies between the company’s defense and security and civil aviation business segments. The company said Tuesday Leontidis will over...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of the U.S. arm of QinetiQ, was handed her 2024 Wash100 Award by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the award, in a recent in-person meeting. This is Purvis’ fourth consecutive year being recognized in the highest tier of the government contracting industry, a rarified group that EM takes pri...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $756 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce additional battery equipment for a ground-based hypersonic strike weapon system. The contract also covers the provision of logistics and systems and software engineering services in support of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system, the defense contractor ...
Jun Choi, formerly CEO of information technology services company NextNow, has joined IT Concepts as senior vice president of human capital services, according to his LinkedIn post. He will oversee employee, partner and customer engagement to support the company’s strategic growth and human capital management initiatives. From March 2020 to Ap...
Mark Santamaria, formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer at CAES, has assumed the CFO role at Austal‘s shipbuilding arm in the U.S. He has three decades of experience in finance and executive leadership, including more than 20 years at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), where he was divisional CFO, Austal USA said Thursday. “We...
Venk Nathamuni, a senior finance executive, will take on the role of chief financial officer at Jacobs (NYSE: J) on June 3. He will bring to the position over three decades of leadership experience in finance and will oversee the implementation of the company’s business and financial strategy, capital allocation and investor relations initiatives ...
SAIC’s Hilary Hageman grew up in Southeast Asia and Africa and witnessed the political instability that threatened her family’s safety in many of the countries in which she lived. She quickly gained an appreciation for the safety provided by the U.S. military to Americans living overseas and drew inspiration from her Peace Corps-serving father a...
Matt Garman, senior vice president of AWS sales, marketing and global services at Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), will succeed Adam Selipsky as CEO of Amazon Web Services, effective June 3. Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy announced the leadership transition in a message to AWS staff published Tuesday. Selipsky will step down after leading Amazon’s clou...
The board of directors of Aretum has promoted Rohit Gupta, most recently senior vice president and executive technologist at the government technology services contractor, to CEO. Bethesda, Maryland-based Aretum said Wednesday Gupta brings to the role over 25 years of leadership experience across information technology, finance, accounting, contract...
Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) board of directors has elected finance executive Kenneth Crews to succeed the retiring Dave Keffer as the company’s chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1. The Falls Church, Virginia-based company said Tuesday Keffer intends to retire on Feb. 21 to spend more time with his family. Crews, currently vice president...
