Tech, growth and operations leadership moves across the market

Booz Allen Hamilton

Lou Barella has joined the company as chief information officer following seven years as chief technology officer at the pharmaceutical giant Takeda.

His 32-year career also includes senior tech leadership roles at AstraZeneca, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Accenture and Baxter Healthcare.

“This next chapter brings me full circle—connecting my experience across pharma, insurance, financial services, and consulting with a purpose I deeply resonate with: helping to solve some of the nation’s most critical challenges through technology,” Barella wrote in a LinkedIn post.

Improvix Technologies

Ashley Nichols has joined the national security-focused IT services provider as chief growth officer, a newly-created position.

Nichols’ areas of responsibility include market positioning, key relationships and aligning organizational capabilities.

The 25-year market veteran’s career includes growth, strategy and operations leadership roles at CACI International and Highlight Technologies.

ITC Federal

Siva Sivaraj has joined the national security and law enforcement tech integrator as vice president of solutions architecture.

ITC cites his two-decade background as including experience in technology strategy, systems architecture, containerization and customer-centric design.

Sivaraj most recently worked as director of solutions architecture at CGI Federal.

LMI

Jared Summers has moved up to the chief technology officer post most recently held by Dr. Joe Norton, who shifted over to a newly-created role of chief product officer at the digital solutions company.

Summers most recently worked as LMI’s defense CTO and now oversees its entire prototyping and engineering function, which focuses on creating scalable offerings for agencies. He is a former CTO for the Armys’s XVIII Airborne Corps.

As CPO, Norton will lead how LMI creates new products and manages their lifecycles. His prior role as tech chief also involved leadership of LMI’s Forge innovation studio.

Radiance Technologies

The government technology services company has made one key hire and a promotion to its senior leadership team with both roles focused on internal functions.

As chief compliance office, Jay Town will manage Radiance’s operations on that front including via regulatory relationships with government agencies. Town is a former U.S. attorney for Alabama’s Northern District.

Seth Crochet, general counsel since the spring of 2024, has moved up to the executive vice president ranks and will also add the duties of corporate secretary. He first joined Radiance in 2017 as an associate contracts administrator.

Salesforce

Eric Hysen, formerly the Homeland Security Department’s chief information officer, has joined the customer relationship management software provider as a chief artificial intelligence and transformation officer.

His new role at Salesforce focuses on legal and corporate affairs functions, where he will lead efforts to implement new AI tools and functions.

Hyten’s tenure at DHS included one year as its chief AI officer, a role he served in concurrence with his CIO responsibilities for one year until his departure in January.

Snowflake

Jennifer Chronis has joined the data analysis and access software provider as vice president for its U.S. public sector business, a role she brings 25 years of experience to.

In a LinkedIn post on Chronis’ hire, Snowflake’s chief revenue officer Michael Gannon said the company is eyeing opportunities ranging from “unlocking the power of AI in government to enabling secure data collaboration across agencies and partners.”

Chronis most recently worked as public sector VP at Broadcom. Her career also includes separate stints as public sector business leader at Verizon and VMware, and before that as general manager of Amazon Web Services’ defense unit.

Spire Global

Quintin Jones has joined the provider of space-based data and analytics services as a vice president to lead its operations in North America.

The three-decade defense sector veteran and retired Marine Corps colonel most recently served as chief of staff to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2023 to earlier this year. He is also a former commander of the 23rd Marine Regiment.

Spire Global’s user base for its low-Earth orbit satellite constellation includes Space Force, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and agencies in the intelligence community.

US AI

Jamie Holcombe, the former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office chief information officer, has joined the artificial intelligence and tech infrastructure company as a vice president to help lead its federal strategy.

Holcombe will oversee efforts to widen the usage of US AI’s Intelligence Computing Platform across all sectors that are highly-regulated, including in the public sector.

As USPTO’s CIO, Holcombe oversaw a large-scale IT transformation that included its move to a cloud-first environment and launch of an AI use case testing lab.

HawkEye 360

David Wajsgras has joined the board of directors at this satellite constellation operator after leading Intelsat through its acquisition by SES, which closed in July.

As Intelsat’s chief executive, Wajsgras led the company through its transition from being a wholesale satellite bandwidth capacity provider to one focused on multi-orbit managed services.

His 25-year career also includes leadership roles at Raytheon, where he led its business segment focused on software-centric and other technology services.

KBR

Huibert Vigeveno has been elected to the engineering and government services company’s board of directors for a one-year term that started Tuesday.

Vigeveno will complete a three-decade run at Shell in September to pursue other opportunities. He spent the past five years as a member of Shell’s executive committee and director of downstream, renewables and energy solutions.

Prior to that, he was executive vice president of Shell’s global commercial business.

Resilinc

Ted Colbert, formerly CEO of Boeing’s defense business from 2022 to 2024, has joined the board of directors at this provider of agentic artificial intelligence tools for supply chain risk management functions.

Built natively on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, the Resilinc AI platform works to combine real-time event monitoring with autonomous digital agents that alert operators to potential issues.

Colbert’s career at Boeing also includes stints as CEO for its global services business and chief information officer.