Tag Archives: Executive moves

Carlos Hernandez, chief legal officer and corporate secretary of Fluor (NYSE: FLR) over the past 12 years, has taken a new role as interim CEO after David Seaton stepped down from the company’s helm. Fluor said Thursday that Seaton, who assumed the CEO post in February 2011 and added the title …

Jeff Puffenberger, formerly senior director of the state, local and education practice at Riverbed, has been promoted to vice president for the U.S. public sector group of the digital performance software provider. The 25-year enterprise technology veteran will oversee work with Riverbed’s work with federal, state and local government customers in …

Mehdi Cherqaoui, formerly chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Phacil, has joined Applied Insight as CFO, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. He previously served as VP of finance and mergers and acquisitions at PAE’s VP of finance and mergers and acquisitions. Before that, Cherqaoui held various leadership …

Graham Smith, former chief financial officer at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named chairman of the board of directors of data management software vendor Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK). Smith has served as a board member at Splunk over the past eight years, the company said Monday. He previously held finance leadership …

Roderick McLean, vice president and general manager of the integrated fighter group at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been appointed to succeed George Shultz as VP and GM for the company’s air mobility and maritime missions organization. Lockheed said Thursday McLean will manage C-130, C-5, LM-100J and P-3 programs while …

Black & Veatch has appointed Steve Scott, Mohan Singh, John Somerville and Rod Staponski to vice president roles as part of the company’s federal service expansion strategy. “Based throughout the U.S., these four experts bring tremendous experience in defense-related program management,” Randy Castro, president of the federal business at Black …

Deloitte US has appointed Joseph Ucuzoglu as CEO and Janet Foutty as board chair in a couple of leadership changes slated to take effect on June 2. Ucuzoglu, currently the chairman and CEO at Deloitte & Touche LLP, has managed all transformation efforts for the audit and assurance practice over …

Thomas Payne, formerly senior director of operations at BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm, was appointed vice president of the defense and intelligence solutions business at Pragmatics. He will succeed the retiring Mike Yocom and will lead efforts to grow the unit’s service offerings for the intelligence community and defense sector, Pragmatics …

Mitre has promoted one executive and hired two executives as the McLean, Va.-based nonprofit corporation aims to transform business operations. The company said Monday Kathleen Federico, most recently a vice president and chief human resources officer, has elevated to the positions of senior VP and chief HR and strategic communications …

Todd Cordell and Jamila Taylor, both of whom previously worked at General Electric (NYSE: GE), have been appointed to human resources leadership positions at Guidehouse‘s Washington, D.C. office. Cordell will serve as chief HR officer and Taylor will be head of HR operations, Guidehouse said Thursday. “They each bring really relevant experiences …