Latest Government Contracting Executives Mentioned in the News

Erik Buice
Eric Buice is president of IQ Solutions, a Rockville, Maryland-based public health communications and health information technology company. He brings to the role nearly three decades of experience in federal health and civil contracting. He previously served as a division general manager at Northrop Grumman. Buice also held executive positions at American Management Systems, CGI, Patriot Technologies, ICF International and Vangent.
Eric Scofield
Eric Scofield is CEO of Abaxx Associates, a Great Falls, Virginia-based professional services firm focused on helping clients use financial data and intelligence to support financial investigations, enforcement and policy missions. He is co-chair of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists. Scofield worked at the Department of the Treasury’s office of intelligence and analysis and served as an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Mike Barretta
Mike Barretta is senior manager of solution architecture at Elastic‘s public sector unit. He brings over two decades of industry experience in software development, data science, system administration and technical consulting. He previously served as director of professional services for government at Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc., a managing consultant at IBM and a capability developer at Edge Consulting. He started his career as a software engineer at MicroPact Engineering.
Kelly Ferrell
Kelly Ferrell is senior vice president for the intelligence and homeland security division at General Dynamics' information technology. In this role, she manages the delivery of software development services, information technology and professional services to the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community. Prior to her current position, Ferrell was GDIT’s chief growth officer and VP and general manager within the intelligence division.
Ken Melero
Ken Melero is regional vice president of intelligence for the U.S. public sector at software company Elastic. He brings more than a decade of industry experience in areas such as data management, open source and geospatial intelligence. Prior to joining Elastic, Melero served as director of federal sales at Socrata, a subsidiary of Tyler Technologies. He also held leadership roles at Pixia, GeoEye Analytics and ImageLinks.
Camille Nichols
Camille Nichols serves on the boards of nLight and Concurrent Technologies Corp. She held senior leadership roles at Amentum and Fluor. She previously served as director of the sexual assault prevention and response office within the office of the secretary of defense and deputy commanding general of Army Installation Management Command. Nichols, a retired U.S. Army general, held positions within the Department of Defense leading operations and acquisition initiatives.
Greg Resutek
Greg Resutek is chief strategy and growth officer at ASRC Federal, overseeing the company’s chief technology office and business development activities. He has been with the IT services contractor since 2014 and held the roles of chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Resutek was VP of business operations at URS’ federal systems division and worked at Motorola’s federal arm as a sales manager and operations controller.
Jared Oren
Jared Oren is director of the test and evaluation division of the National Urban Security Technology Laboratory within the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate. Oren oversees NUSTL's counter-unmanned aircraft systems portfolio. Before DHS, he was a research civil engineer and program manager at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He joined the Army in 2004 and held the positions of platoon leader and combat engineer.
Lisa Trombley
Lisa Trombley is a principal at specialized cybersecurity, compliance and risk services provider Pointe Solutions. Prior to joining the company, she served as chief operating officer at Technica, where she managed various government programs and talent development efforts. Trombley previously led the development and implementation of information technology platforms for defense, civilian and intelligence customers during her more than 25-year career at Lockheed Martin.
Chris Vatidis
Christine Vatidis is vice president of U.S. public sector sales at software developer OpenText. She brings more than two decades of industry experience in areas such as sales and marketing, business transformation and procurement. Vatidis held various roles of increasing responsibility during her more than 17-year career at CA Technologies, a Broadcom company. Most recently, she was senior director of sales focused on the defense, law enforcement and intelligence sectors.
Raza Latif
Raza Latif is CEO of Tysons, Virginia-based information technology contractor NuAxis Innovations. In this role, Latif is responsible for driving the company's business strategy and customer service initiatives. Prior to taking the helm at NuAxis in April 2022, Latif served as a president at the company for two decades. He concurrently serves on the boards of the Alliance for Digital Innovation, the University of Richmond and the Virginia Chamber.
Mike Byrne
Michael Byrne is senior director of presales at Dell Technologies' federal team. During his more than 10-decade career at the technology company, Byrne has held various leadership roles in consulting, sales and business planning, including as senior director of presales focused on federal systems integrators and channel partners. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Byrne was director of engineering at Kinney Group and senior infrastructure architect at RCI.