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Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: REGGIE AGGARWAL
Cvent is a market-leading meeting, events and hospitality technology provider based in McLean. Originally trained as a lawyer, Cvent CEO Aggarwal received degrees from the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University and Georgetown University Law Center. But he was seduced from the law by events management. After staging several hundred events as president of […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: GREG BARONI
Philanthropist, entrepreneur, sports team owner and tech executive Baroni co-founded McLean-based Attain LLC, a management, tech and compliance consulting firm, in 2009. The company split in 2021, selling its federal arm to Reston-based health care company Maximus for $430 million. Attain’s remaining education, nonprofit, health care and state and local government sectors now operate privately [[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MAX PETERSON
Peterson, who joined AWS in 2012 and started his current role in 2021, has more than 30 years of public sector experience, with stints at Dell and CDW-G. Now he’s guiding the $80.1 billion Amazon.com cloud subsidiary through a variety of high-tech federal projects. So far, AWS landed a spot (along with Google, Microsoft and […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: D. JAMES BIDZOS
An early advocate of encryption in commercial software, Bidzos is an internet and cybersecurity pioneer. Verisign is the largest internet domain name registry and infrastructure provider. Any address with a .com or .net domain suffix is registered with Verisign. With 350 million registered addresses on its list and 3.5 million more registering in the first […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: ANEESH CHOPRA
In 2014, Chopra co-founded Arlington-based CareJourney, an open-data analytics platform designed to help physicians and provider networks improve health care delivery at lower cost to Medicare and Medicaid patients by better understanding patient demographics and identifying highest-need populations. Between 2009 and 2012, Chopra served as the federal government’s first chief technology officer,[...]
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 […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: LAURA K. IPSEN
Ipsen was hired as higher education tech company Ellucian’s head in 2017, after 25 years in Silicon Valley, where she worked in executive positions for Oracle, Microsoft and Cisco Systems. She has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Acer America and Hitachi Data Systems. A University of Virginia alumna, Ipsen moved back to the commonwealth when she […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: CANDICE LING
Ling took over leadership of Microsoft’s federal arm in July after Rick Wagner, the sector’s president since 2020, stepped down to pursue new opportunities. Ling previously served as civilian federal sector vice president for Microsoft, a position she held since October 2021, and she also spent 19 years with Canadian consulting firm CGI, most recently […]
Here to stay
Rachel Miller spent half of her undergraduate studies and then a portion of graduate school learning remotely behind a computer screen. Even the first job she took that aligned with her career goals — completing contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic while she worked toward her master’s degree in public health — was a remote […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: MEHUL P. SANGHANI
A Virginia Tech graduate, Sanghani runs one of the fastest growing federal contractors in Virginia’s tech sector. In December 2022, IBM announced it would purchase Octo from Arlington Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum, and Octo is now a part of IBM Consulting’s U.S. public and federal market arm. Born in India, Sanghani was raised […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: STEPHEN TRUNDLE
Trundle has led Tysons-based home security tech company Alarm.com since May 2003. He was chief technology officer at MicroStrategy when Alarm.com was founded in 2000. MicroStrategy sold the spinoff security business to a group of investors in 2009, and Alarm.com went public in 2015. Alarm.com has since been expanding rapidly as the market for connected […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: BRIAN KENNER
When Amazon.com was scouting for potential locations for its East Coast HQ2 headquarters years ago, Kenner was Washington, D.C.’s deputy mayor for planning and economic development, a position in which he worked hard to lure the e-tailer to the district, although ultimately Amazon picked nearby Arlington County. Now, Kenner works for the Fortune 500 goliath […]
