A trio of C-level moves to note at Booz Allen, Leidos and SAIC

Booz Allen Hamilton

Matt Calderone, chief financial officer for the past three years, will leave the company on Feb. 1 for the CFO position at a business being spun out of S&P Global.

S&P Global’s mobility business comprising of Carfax and other automotive intelligence brands is poised to become a standalone, publicly-traded company at some point between April and October of 2026.

In a regulatory filing posted Monday, Booz Allen said its chief operating officer Kristine Martin Anderson will assume the CFO’s responsibilities on an interim basis until the contractor appoints a successor.

As Booz Allen’s CFO, Calderone also oversaw the acquisition and venture capital legs of the strategy in addition to other finance-related functions. Calderone appeared on our WT 360 podcast in September alongside Brian MacCarthy, head of Booz Allen Ventures, to discuss the company’s approach for investing in and working with tech startups.

Caldrone spent 22 years at Booz Allen altogether and worked as its chief strategy officer in the two years prior to his CFO appointment in 2022. As chief strategy officer, he led the development and rollout of Booz Allen’s current vision and strategy it calls VoLT (velocity, leadership and technology).

Leidos

Theodore “Ted” Tanner will join the company as chief technology officer on Jan. 5 to lead its development and deployment of solutions to agencies.

The three-decade tech veteran most recently held the CTO role at BigBear.ai for nearly two years. His career also includes roles at global tech giants such as Apple, IBM and Microsoft.

Now at Leidos, Tanner will oversee the tech leg of its NorthStar 2030 strategy and vision that the company has unveiled over the course of this year.

Artificial intelligence and autonomy are key components that feed into Leidos’ growth priorities in space and maritime, digital modernization, cybersecurity, health services, mission software and energy infrastructure. Quantum computing is another tech area of emphasis for Leidos.

Tanner succeeds Jim Carlini, who is stepping down from the CTO role after six years. Carlini will become a senior adviser to CEO Tom Bell on national security matters.

Science Applications International Corp.

Ravi Dankanikote is returning as chief growth officer to the company he previously led business development efforts at from 2021 until August of this year.

Dankanikote’s appointment takes effect immediately and he will report to Interim CEO Jim Reagan, who stepped into that current position in October after then-CEO Toni Townes-Whitley left the company.

A three-decade market veteran, Dankanikote most recently worked as Peraton’s chief growth officer for the past four months.

That period involved Peraton’s pursuit and capture of the contract earlier this month to build a new air traffic control system, which the Federal Aviation Administration wants online by 2028.

Prior to joining SAIC in 2021, he spent 27 years at CACI in multiple senior business development and growth roles.