Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN WASSON

Wasson has spent his 36-year career at ICF International, where he has led the global consulting and technology services provider through a series of acquisitions and growth. The company has doubled in size every five years over the past two decades and in fiscal year 2022 reported $1.78 billion in revenue.

Wasson joined ICF as an associate in 1987 shortly after earning his master’s degree in policy and technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He climbed ICF’s ranks, previously serving as president and chief operating officer before he was named CEO in 2019 and board chair in 2020.

In December 2022, ICF relocated its global headquarters from Fairfax to Reston. Despite having a larger workforce, the space is smaller than its former HQ — due to its flexible, hybrid work model, not everyone is in the building all the time, Wasson noted in a Washington Business Journal interview. ICF has 9,000 employees worldwide, with about 2,000 working in Virginia.

Wasson is a board member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and has been named to Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list three times. In October 2022, ICF won a $1.2 billion Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration contract.