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Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List
Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fifth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor. Executives are listed in alphabetical order by industry. Below you will find links […]
2024 Virginia 500: Federal Contractors | Technology
CRAIG P. ABOD PRESIDENT, CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY, RESTON REGGIE AGGARWAL FOUNDER AND CEO, CVENT, McLEAN MAHFUZ AHMED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, DEXIAN, MCLEAN RYAN ANGOLD CEO, ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, VIRGINIA BEACH TOM ARSENEAULT PRESIDENT AND CEO, BAE SYSTEMS INC., FALLS CHURCH RON ASH CEO, ACCENTURE FEDERAL […]
Gazing into the future
The waterways and shorelines that make up Hampton Roads harbor a historic reputation as ideal hosts for commerce, trade, shipbuilding, military installations and government research. Its beaches and historical sites attract millions of visitors, and the region is home to farms, businesses and universities. We know the past and present, but what about the future […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JIM BRINKER
Brinker runs Intel’s Fairfax-based federal contracting arm, overseeing strategy, business development, sales, contracts, program management and engineering. A University of Florida graduate, Brinker joined Intel in 2015 as director of extreme scale computing, and was promoted to his current position in 2019. Before that, he was a vice president at Silicon Graphics Federal. Brinker is [&helli[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MIKE SALVINO
Since 2019, Salvino has led Fortune 500 IT contractor DXC as its CEO, and he became its board chairman last year. DXC, which employs 133,000 people worldwide, has experienced declining revenue over the past few years. In fiscal year 2023, it reported $14.4 billion in revenue, down from $16.3 billion in 2022 and $17.73 billion […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: CHRISTOPHER D. KASTNER
Kastner has now completed his first year as head of the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which owns Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia’s largest industrial employer. He was tapped as HII’s president and CEO in March 2022, after previously serving as chief operating officer and chief financial officer. In fiscal 2022, the company [&he[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: DeETTE GRAY
A former executive at Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, Gray worked as a math and science middle school teacher after graduating from North Carolina State University and East Carolina University in the 1990s. Her interest in coding led her into the IT field, and she became a software developer. Over the past decade, she’s won […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JENNIFER CHRONIS
Chronis came aboard VMware in 2022 as vice president in charge of public sector business. A former Army paratrooper with 45 jumps under her belt, Chronis spent 21 years in the military, serving in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm and retiring as a lieutenant colonel. After that, she went to work for IBM, managing its Army […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JENNIFER FELIX
As head of Reston-based ASRC Federal, Felix leads a family of companies serving government IT customers in the defense and civilian sectors. ASRC Federal is a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional, an Alaska Native corporation, and employs about 8,000 people in 44 states and territories, with 861 employees in Virginia. In May, ASRC Federal purchased […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: RYAN ANGOLD
Angold, a former Navy SEAL who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, wore one of ADS‘ wetsuits when he was deployed on missions. In 2005, Angold left the Navy and joined Blackbird Technologies, a solutions provider for the intelligence community that became part of Raytheon Technologies (now RTX). He joined ADS in 2010 as Navy […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: THEODORE ‘TED’ COLBERT III
Recent years have been brutal for Boeing, which has dealt with supply-chain disruptions and delays in its defense programs. Named head of the world’s fifth largest defense contractor’s defense, space and security division in 2022, Colbert said in June at the Paris Air Show that he expected second quarter 2023 losses similar to this year’s […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JILL SINGER
Singer has been leading the telecommunications company’s business activities for the Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community since 2020. She oversees efforts to bring 5G connectivity to a broad swath of uses from helping first responders communicate during disasters to enabling U.S. Air and Space forces to adopt autonomous vehicles and robots. Recently, […]
