When interviewed by ExecutiveBiz in May of last year, Jim Duffey, EDS Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Public Sector business, shared that a big challenge his company faced was to defend its market share. This is a challenge that will surely travel with him as Duffey transitions from EDS to Dell, where he [...]
By day – and I’m sure also by night – venture capitalist and successful entrepreneur Mark Ein spends his time slicing through potential investment opportunities for his holding company Venturehouse Group, LLC. But Ein is putting an entirely new spin on his portfolio as head of an ownership group that has brought a World TeamTennis [...]
GlobalLogic, a Vienna-based company that partners with software developers to help them bring their products to market, has named Mike Daniels as the chairman of its board of directors. Daniels, a 30-year veteran of the technology sector, previously served as a senior executive at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). His election as chairman comes at [...]
Ready for a Catch-22? Your client is a government agency with a shrinking budget, but a growing need: Every day, more constituents are calling, emailing, and IMing the agency, seeking customer service help. Can the government agency meet its customers’ expectations —maybe even surpass them? In the following Q&A, Sortzi discusses how RightNow has been [...]
Paul Smith joined Red Hat to replicate his success establishing — and growing — a public sector practice. In the eight years since then, he’s more than succeeded. Today, the government business unit he oversees at Red Hat is the fastest growing business unit in the company. We talked to Paul Smith about the benefits [...]
All I can say is the 10 executives named last month to the ExecutiveBiz Beltway Game Changers list have to be feeling pretty good about their employment prospects in 2008. Yesterday, Dan Johnson was appointed President of General Dynamics Information Technology – effective April 1. In elevating Johnson from his previous role as EVP, I [...]
What is VisualCV? Phillip Merrick: VisualCV.com is a new approach to creating and sharing resumes over the Internet. The VisualCV comes alive with informational keyword pop-ups, videos, pictures and social networking. We believe VisualCV will revolutionize the entire career management process, from job seeking to professional networking and hiring. What problem is it fixing? Phillip [...]
