Comedian Rodney Dangerfield is perhaps best known for his line “I don’t get no respect.” One wonders if, in a previous life, Dangerfield was a chief operating officer. While the president and chief executive officer are accountable for establishing an organization’s goals – and meeting them – over time it is the COO who is […]

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Long before he ever became CTO of Nortel Government Solutions, Alan Harbitter started his own company, PEC Solutions, with two other partners. When it went public in 2000, Harbitter wound up running a publicly traded company for the next five years. Then, in 2005, another milestone occurred: The company reached 1,700 employees and a $250M […]

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ExecutiveBiz members have had the pleasure of interacting with a long line of IT thought leaders. One of note is Chris Rasmussen, a great advocate for information sharing and collaboration within the federal space and a master of the use of new tools to get groups working together on hard problems (read more about Chris […]

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“If you had 15 minutes alone with President Bush, what is the one critical issue you would bring to his attention?” Now, that might have been a dicey proposition for the POTUS if asked at a different D.C. venue today, but in the context of the ExecutiveBiz CIO Series Event held this morning at the […]

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Washington area golfers looking for an extra layer of corporate exclusivity have a new course to call home. The Presidential, a new course set to open in Dulles, has adopted a unique corporate-only membership policy providing its golfers elite access to the region’s most exclusive clients.
While some other clubs frown on the practice of […]

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Interested in learning more about the Government IT space? Then, mark your calendars: On Wednesday, March 19, Casey Coleman will speak at ExecutiveBiz’s Government IT series. Coleman was named Chief Information Officer for U.S. General Services Administration this past fall — the first woman in GSA’s history to hold that position.
Founded in 1949, […]

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Bob Kocher has always been into innovation. So, it was only natural that when he found himself working as a program manager for the government, a larger drive was brewing within him — to strike out on his own. Today, Kocher has done just that, and more. As founder and president of Ideal Innovations, Kocher […]

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Unless you are the Lone Ranger, Rambo or Superman, you have to work with others to get the hard things done. And the harder the thing is you need to accomplish, the more important collaboration becomes. Fortunately for today’s executive, there are some great new Web2.0 tools that can help you connect […]

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BMC Software, Inc., takes its commitment to serving the US government seriously – and it shows. The average tenure of its sales people working in an account is over 4 years. A big part of that success comes down to Chris Aherne, and his leadership skills. As the managing director, federal government of BMC Software, […]

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Bill Vass of Sun Microsystems fuses the best of two worlds: his decades of experience in both the private and public sectors. Since becoming president and chief operation officer of Sun Microsystems Federal a year and a half ago, Vass has put his rich pool of experience to use. Sun is one of the biggest […]

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