Growth, talent and finance leadership roles across the market
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Ross Wilkers
A handful of developments at boards of directors also feature, along with a new industry role for a former Food and Drug Administration tech leader.
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Christopher Wood has joined the digital services company as chief growth officer, a role that involves planning and capture efforts to secure contracts.
The two-decade market veteran most recently worked as a strategy and growth leader for Leidos’ health IT business.
His career also includes senior roles at Sparksoft, Solutions By Design, Accenture Federal Services, Agilex and Unissant.
Allyon
Tony Barrett has moved up to president and chief strategy officer at the technology services provider, which he first joined in the spring to lead its federal business.
The 14-year industry veteran will lead Allyon’s push to scale its presence across the market and report directly to CEO Rebekah Barr.
Prior to Allyon, Barrett worked as president and general manager of federal markets at BigBear.ai. He is also a retired Marine Corps intelligence officer.
Aretum
Bobby Frazitta has joined the provider of cybersecurity and professional solutions as vice president of people, a role he brings two decades of human resources experience to.
Frazitta’s career includes senior HR leadership roles at MAG Aerospace, RIV Solutions, Merlin Cyber, Raytheon, BAE Systems and Deloitte.
Now at Aretum, he will lead the development of talent strategies to support operating performance and promote employee retention.
GRVTY
Cord Sterling has joined the national security technology integrator as vice president of government relations, a role that involves public policy and government affairs functions.
Sterling’s three decade career includes work as a professional staff member and later deputy staff director for the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is also a former adviser to the late Sen. John Warner, who chaired the committee from 1999-to-2001 and again from 2003-to-2007.
GRVTY focuses much of its strategy around creating an automated intelligence enterprise, as CEO Katie Selbe told us back in the spring.
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William “Bill” Maxwell has joined the employee-owned IT and professional services provider as chief financial officer, a role he brings 25 years of market experience to.
Maxwell most recently worked as CFO at Jefferson Consulting Group, where he established a shared services operation.
He also has held the CFO role at ERP International, IronBrick, MVM and Calibre.
Swingtech
Farhan Khan has joined the IT and professional services provider as chief artificial intelligence officer following 16 years in government.
Khan most recently served as chief digital officer at the Food and Drug Administration for three years. His career in government also includes tech leadership roles as a civilian official in the Army, as well as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Transportation Department.
Now at Swingtech, he will lead the company’s efforts to bolster its AI offerings and drive innovation across teams.
Xcelerate Solutions
Doug Kollme has joined the secure IT services provider as chief financial officer, a role he brings roughly two decades of federal market experience to.
Kollme’s career has included stints as CFO for Buffalo Group, InfoZen and Acentia. Buffalo Group was acquired by Jacobs in 2021, while InfoZen was purchased by ManTech in 2018.
He is also a former CFO for Customer Value Partners, where he helped lead that company’s acquisition and integration of Atlas Research in 2021, and most recently at Iron Bow Technologies.
BigBear.ai
Anthony “Tony” Evangelista has joined the artificial intelligence integrator’s board of directors, where he will also be a member of its audit committee and compensation committee.
Evangelista retired from PwC in the summer of 2019 after two decades at the firm in separate stints as a financial services partner, first from 1985-to-1993 and again from 1996-to-2019.
Prior to PwC, Evangelista served as assistant chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s division of investment management.
Blacksea Technologies
Mike Kushin, president of Parsons Corp.’s defense and intelligence business for four years, has joined the board of directors at this naval technology maker.
Blacksea touted Kushin’s three-decade national security tech career as including cybersecurity, electronic warfare and space.
He led BlackHorse Solutions as CEO from 2017 to 2021, when Parsons acquired that company from investors that included Razor’s Edge Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures.
Radiance Technologies
Tony Moraco, who led Science Applications International Corp. as CEO from 2013 to 2019, has joined the board of directors at this employee-owned technology services provider.
Moraco led the spinout of “New SAIC” from its former parent now known as Leidos, plus the acquisitions of Scitor Corp. in 2015 and Engility Corp. in 2019.
He is a member of the board of directors at Curtiss-Wright.
V2X
David Farnsworth, chief financial officer at Mercury Systems since 2023, has joined the government services company’s board of directors amid a scheduled transition for the panel.
The merger agreement to create V2X called for two board members nominated by Vertex Aerospace’s former owners to step down no later than the 2026 annual shareholders’ meeting. Jordan Ransom and Lee Evangelakos both departed the board on Aug. 14.
V2X’s board has reduced in size to 10 members from 11. Farnsworth will also be a member of the board’s audit committee, along with the nominating and governance committee.