CEO, ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES, ARLINGTON COUNTY
CEO, ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES, ARLINGTON COUNTY
Virginia Business// August 30, 2023//
Formerly an associate professor at Harvard Business School and deputy undersecretary for industrial affairs and installations at the Department of Defense, Goodman now leads Accenture subsidiary AFS, a federal contractor offering IT services. He previously held several leadership roles at Accenture before becoming CEO of AFS in 2017.
In May, AFS received a place on a contract worth up to $2.6 billion to modernize systems for the IRS, and in April, AFS launched a Federal Generative AI Center of Excellence, where researchers design artificial intelligence-powered prototypes and scale them for use at federal agencies.
A recipient of Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award each year since 2018, Goodman also received several awards for public service during his time at the Department of Defense. He co-chairs the Atlantic Council’s Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data and serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
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