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JMU announces partnership with Handshake
James Madison University has partnered with San Francisco-based jobs listings tech company Handshake to produce a live feed of job and internship opportunities on its website, JMU announced Tuesday. Although more than 900 colleges and universities use Handshake, JMU says it’s the first school in the nation to fully integrate Handshake into its website, making […]
SafeGuard Cyber names senior VP for information security, corporate affairs
Charlottesville-based SaaS security platform provider SafeGuard Cyber has hired Thomas A. Dukes Jr. as its senior vice president for information security and corporate affairs, the company announced Tuesday. Dukes has more than 25 years of experience in cyber policy. He has previously served as the U.S. State Department’s deputy coordinator for cyber issues, as a […]
Dulles-based ERP platform developer Unanet adds six new executives
Dulles-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform developer Unanet has hired six executives, the company announced Friday. Assad Jarrahian was appointed as chief product officer. Most recently, Jarrahian was the senior vice president of product at Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based Intelex Technologies ULC. He has also worked for companies including Pearson, Digidata, Oracle and EMS Software. H[...]
Whitney, Bradley & Brown acquires Decisive Analytics Corp.
Reston-based program management and consulting provider Whitney, Bradley & Brown Inc. (WBB) has acquired Arlington-based defense analytics provider Decisive Analytics Corp. (DAC), according to WBB’s parent company, H.I.G. Capital (H.I.G). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but H.I.G is a global private equity investment firm with more than $35 billion of equity capital [&hel[...]
House committee tackles consumer protections and cybersecurity
RICHMOND, Va. — In one of the more modern meeting rooms at the over two centuries old State Capitol, 22 lawmakers gather on Mondays to confront the increasing cybersecurity threats looming over Virginia residents. This session the House Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation will consider a variety of issues, including managing data in an […]
Reston software company names VP of customer success
Reston-based marketing software company Triblio named Acacia Waller as its vice president of customer success, the company announced Thursday. Triblio is the developer of an account-based marketing platform designed to orchestrate marketing and sales campaigns, provide audience management (account leads), track sales activity, provide account analytics and other market insight. Waller has been in [...]
Reston IT provider 1901 Group names executive VP
Reston-based IT service provider 1901 Group LLC has named George Batsakis as its executive vice president and chief strategy officer, the company announced Tuesday. Batsakis will lead the company’s overall strategy planning and development, executive management, operations, new business development, emerging technology and partnerships. An Army veteran, Batsakis most recently worked for Acce[...]
Fairfax-based ICF to acquire cloud services provider for $255M
Fairfax-based consulting and technology services provider ICF International Inc. plans to acquire Arlington-based cloud services provider Incentive Technology Group LLC (ITG) for $255 million, ICF announced Tuesday. The closing of the transaction is subject to approval and is expected to occur in the first quarter. “IT modernization and cloud together is estimated to be approximately [&helli[...]
CoreMedia AG appoints chief revenue officer
Content management systems developer CoreMedia AG has promoted Jim Stirewalt to chief revenue officer, the company announced Monday. Stirewalt most recently was CoreMedia’s senior vice president and general manager of the Americas. He has also held leadership roles at software companies including SAP and IBM. Stirewalt will manage CoreMedia’s global revenue-generating functions such as[...]
Samsung Electronics acquires Chantilly tech firm
Samsung Electronics has acquired Chantilly-based network services provider TeleWorld Solutions (TWS), Samsung announced Monday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. TWS, a privately-owned company, will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics America Inc. Samsung will continue to offer TWS services such as network design, installation, testing and optimization. TWS le[...]
SAIC nets $727M Air Force contract
Reston-based information technology company Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) received a $727 million contract from the U.S. Air Force that will move mission applications for the Air Force and Army to the cloud, SAIC announced Friday. SAIC was founded in 2013 and provides systems engineering, cloud migration, analytics, simulation, training and other IT services to […]
Reston-based Ellucian names chief product officer
Reston-based higher education software company Ellucian has named Stephen Laster as its chief product officer, the company announced Friday. Ellucian provides products for higher education such as student information systems, data analytics tools and graduation-tracking platforms for more than 2,700 customers. Laster will lead product direction and strategy and oversee the research and development[...]
