Peraton promotes acting CFO to permanent role

Reston-based federal contractor Peraton announced Wednesday that acting Chief Financial Officer Salim Omar has been named the company’s permanent CFO, effective June 20.

Omar became acting CFO after previous CFO Ken Sharp left the company in March to become the CFO of L3Harris Technologies. Omar has had more than a decade of senior finance leadership roles across the company and its predecessor organizations.

According to his LinkedIn profile, he was previously vice president of finance at Vencore from 2016 to 2018 and vice president of corporate finance at Perspecta from 2018 to May 2021. Both companies were acquired by Peraton.

Since May 2021, he had been serving as senior vice president of corporate and sector finance at Peraton.

In a statement, Peraton Chairman and CEO Steve Schorer said he was pleased to announce Salim’s promotion to CFO.

“During his time at Peraton, Salim has helped accelerate our momentum and further position the company to drive growth, elevate performance and deliver superior mission impact for our customers,” Schorer said. “I am confident that, in his new role, Salim will reinforce the financial rigor and strategic clarity that our investors and partners expect.”

Throughout his career, Omar has led operational improvement and restructuring efforts while playing key roles in mergers and acquisitions, public market transactions, post-merger integrations and divestitures. He started his career at the Federal Reserve Board as a senior financial analyst, and later was operations controller at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) and director of corporate finance at ManTech.

“I am honored to lead Peraton’s finance operations at such a pivotal moment,” Omar said in a statement. “Our finance and leadership teams have built a strong foundation of fiscal resilience and disciplined execution. I look forward to building on that foundation as we advance our strategic priorities and continue to deliver unmatched mission capability for our customers.”

Omar has an MBA in finance from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in finance, decision sciences and management information systems from George Mason University. He is also a certified public accountant, licensed in Virginia.

Peraton is owned by Veritas Capital, which established the government contracting firm in 2017. Four years later, Peraton purchased Chantilly-based IT contractor Perspecta and Northrop Grumman’s federal IT and mission support services businesses for a combined $10.5 billion. The company has more than 17,000 employees, including roughly 7,000 in the Washington, D.C., region.