// May 19, 2015//
Reston-based Leidos Holdings Inc. has named Jonathan Scholl as health and engineering sector president.
The appointment is effective on June 22.
Scholl will lead nearly 7,000 employees working in the areas of health-care IT, electronic health records, advanced data analytics, health and life sciences, and clinical research.
He also will oversee operations related to energy grid and critical infrastructure, design, engineering and transportation security products.
Scholl will work out of the company's headquarters in Reston.
He served for five years as the chief strategy officer for Texas Health Resources, one of the largest nonprofit health-care systems in the country.
Scholl earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in control systems engineering, he served five years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine officer and nuclear power plant instructor.
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