Defense, operations and corporate development leadership moves across the market
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Ross Wilkers
Three additions to boards of directors also feature in this listing, as does a new state government role for a former 18F leader.
Amyx
Melissa Beveridge has joined this IT-focused subsidiary of Tetra Tech as vice president of defense operations, a role she brings 15 years of experience to.
“Melissa will lead a portfolio of Amyx Defense programs supporting customers across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community including DHA, DISA, DTRA, USTRANSCOM, and the Air Force with responsibility for program execution, customer engagement, employee development, financial performance, and organic growth,” Amyx wrote in a LinkedIn post.
Beveridge most recently spent eight years in operational leadership roles at Agile Defense.
Concept Plus
Jennifer Kiser has joined this IT solutions and services provider as vice president of Oracle services, a role she brings 25 years of experience to.
Concept Plus specializes in implementations of platforms from Oracle, where she most recently worked as a senior sales executive.
At Concept Plus, Kiser will focus on efforts to bolster delivery efforts and the company’s presence across the federal landscape.
Cykor
Phil Williams has moved up to chief strategy officer at this technology and professional services provider, which he first joined in 2022.
Cykor promoted the three-decade public sector veteran to vice president of growth in 2025. He joined Cykor in 2020 after a stint as a consulting services director at Perspecta. He is also a former networks manager for the Coast Guard.
Cykor announced his CSO promotion in a LinkedIn post.
Data Systems Analysts
Mike Donovan will move up on Jan. 1 to the chief operating officer role at this employee-owned technology and professional services provider, where he has been for two decades.
Donovan is succeeding current CEO Kathleen Kirk, who will retire from DSA in March after three decades there. In January, DSA's then-chief financial officer John Foley moved up to CEO after 17 years as CFO.
DSA also promoted 12-year company veteran Mike Emerle to chief financial officer and is realigning its intelligence and critical infrastructure protection organization into two units. Chris Guyton will lead the intelligence unit and Eoin O’Driscoll will oversee critical infrastructure protection.
GRVTY
Andy McEnroe has moved up to chief development officer at this defense technology integrator, which he first joined in the summer of 2025 as senior vice president of corporate development.
McEnroe will continue to lead GRVTY’s merger-and-acquisition program and key partnership function. Since he joined GRVTY, the company has grown from roughly 325 employees to 1,200 people.
Prior to GRVTY, he spent two decades at investment banks such as Guggenheim Securities and Raymond James.
Kymeta Corp.
Elizabeth Kimber has joined this maker of flat-panel satellite terminals as chief growth officer, a role she brings 37 years of CIA experience to.
Kimber has been a member of Kymeta’s board of advisers since 2024 and now oversees efforts to further expand its offerings across defense, intelligence and national security programs.
She joined Two Six Technologies in 2022 following her long career at the CIA, where her most recent role was deputy director of operations. She also served a stint as acting deputy director.
Loyal Source Government Solutions
Katie Herzog has joined this workforce and healthcare solutions provider as vice president and division manager of omni-channel health after a decade at CareSource.
Herzog will lead Loyal Source’s push to scale its offerings across government and commercial sectors by integrating clinical services, technology, workforce strategy and operations.
At CareSource, she focused on efforts to improve access and outcomes for underserved populations.
RavenTek
Darin Stolte has joined this professional and managed IT services provider as vice president of public sector services, a role he brings 32 years of experience to.
Stolte will lead business development, operations and finance functions for RavenTek’s federal line of work.
He most recently worked in the chief operating and chief growth officer roles at Patriot Strategies.
Vamonos IT
John Marshall has joined this federal IT services provider as chief solutions officer and a member owner following service as deputy division chief of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ enterprise infrastructure division.
Marshall is also a 12-year veteran of Customs and Border Protection, where his most recent role was director of Microsoft 365 services.
Now at Vamonos, he will lead its solution architecture and technical strategy functions.
HII
Mike Petters, who led the shipbuilder from its 2011 spinout from then-parent Northrop Grumman to 2022, is returning to the company’s board of directors.
During his tenure, Petters oversaw HII’s acquisitions of government tech services providers over many years to form what is now the Mission Technologies segment. After stepping down from the CEO post, Petters remained as executive vice chairman of the board until January 2023.
HII’s board grows from 11 members to 12 with its addition of Petters. He will now sit on the board’s cybersecurity and finance committees.
L3Harris Technologies
Kimberly Fields, chief executive and chair of titanium maker ATI Inc., has joined the board of directors at this blue chip defense hardware company.
Fields has led ATI as CEO since 2024 and was appointed chair of the board of directors in May. She joined ATI in 2019 as an executive vice president after stops at IDEX Corp., ERVAZ North America, GE Energy, Alcoa, Boston Consulting Group and Owens Corning.
L3Harris’ board grows from 11 members to 12 with the addition of Fields, who is an independent member.
Vaxart
Dr. Raquel Bono, the former director of the Defense Health Agency, has joined the board of directors at this clinical-stage biotech company pushing to develop vaccines that can be delivered via the mouth.
The retired Navy vice admiral led DHA from 2015 to 2019, a period that included work on initial deployments of the MHS Genesis electronic health record.
She currently is a managing partner at Nava Edge and on the board of directors at Nava Edge.
State of Delaware
Greg Godbout has joined Delaware’s department of technology and information as chief technology officer, a role he brings two decades of public sector experience to.
Godbout is a former CTO and U.S. Digital Services lead for the Environmental Protection Agency. He was also the first executive director and a co-founder of 18F, a digital services unit within the General Services Administration.
His private sector roles have included separate CEO stints at Flamelit and AI for Natural Disasters.