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  • Nathan Klatt Named Capstone Corp. Managing Director; Bruce Bingham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nathan Klatt Named Capstone Corp. Managing Director; Bruce Bingham Comments

    Nathan Klatt has been appointed to serve as the managing director of the valuation practice of Capstone Advisory Group LLC in its New York office. Klatt was most recently with Deloitte‘s National Office where he led a team of 500 valuation partners and professionals for a national audit support program, the company announced Wednesday. “[Klatt] […] More

  • Navistar's Scott Van Dorn Joins HPEV Advisory Board; Timothy Hassett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navistar’s Scott Van Dorn Joins HPEV Advisory Board; Timothy Hassett Comments

    Navistar Engineering Director Scott Van Dorn has joined the strategic advisory board at energy company HPEV, where he will work to offer the company insights on the mobile generation and work truck markets. Van Dorn handles Navistar’s production definition, investment and engineering activities for the company’s medium duty, buses and military vehicles portfolio in North America, […] More

  • Bill Thomas Named KPMG Americas Region Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Thomas Named KPMG Americas Region Chair

    Bill Thomas, KPMG LLP CEO in Canada, has been appointed chairman of the board of KPMG’s Americas region that includes the U.S., Canada, Central and South America and Israel. Thomas will continue with his role as chief executive of KPMG’s operations in Canada, the company announced Tuesday. He will succeed John Veihmeyer, who was promoted […] More

  • Peter Smith of AMERICAN SYSTEMS Joins TechAmerica's Public Sector Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith of AMERICAN SYSTEMS Joins TechAmerica’s Public Sector Board of Directors

    Peter Smith, chief operating officer at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, has been elected to join the public sector board of directors at TechAmerica. The more than three-decade industry veteran will provide counsel on technology strategies for the government IT contracting sector as a TechAmerica public sector board member, AMERICAN SYSTEMS said Monday. Members of the TechAmerica public sector […] More

  • Mason Morfit of ValueAct Capital Joins Microsoft Board; John Thompson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mason Morfit of ValueAct Capital Joins Microsoft Board; John Thompson Comments

    Mason Morfit, ValueAct Capital president, has been elected to join the board of directors at Microsoft Corp. Morfit will also serve in the board’s audit committee, Microsoft said Tuesday statement. Since Aug. 30, 2013 ValueAct Capital has worked with Microsoft since August 2013 under a cooperation agreement that granted Morfit an option to join the board.. […] More

  • Sean McCarron Joins Smartronix as Sales VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sean McCarron Joins Smartronix as Sales VP

    Sean McCarron will serve as vice president of sales at Smartronix and will lead the company’s sales and business development efforts in the commercial cloud computing market. He was most recently the business development manager at Amazon Web Services, Smartronix announced Tuesday. Before AWS, the 14-year industry veteran held positions at Microsoft and Esri. On his […] More

  • Rami Branitzky Named SAP Ventures Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rami Branitzky Named SAP Ventures Managing Director

    Rami Branitzky has SAP Ventures, an independent venture capital firm affiliate with SAP AG, as managing director and will lead a global market development team. Branitzky most recently served as CEO at Grok Solutions, formerly known as Numenta, SAP announced Tuesday. SAP Ventures noted that the global market development team will also handle business development and marketing. […] More

  • Jerry Jason, Former NASA Flight Lead, Joins EchoStar Subsidiary in VP Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerry Jason, Former NASA Flight Lead, Joins EchoStar Subsidiary in VP Role

    Jerry Jason, a former NASA flight director for the International Space Station, has been appointed vice president of spacecraft operations and engineering at EchoStar Corp. subsidiary EchoStar Satellite Services LLC. Jason will handle flight operations, engineering and analysis functions for the company’s 23 owned, leased and managed spacecraft, the company said Tuesday. He will also […] More

  • Mark Garfiled Joins Symantec as Chief Accounting Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Garfiled Joins Symantec as Chief Accounting Officer

    Mark Garfiled, formerly senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer at Brightstar, has joined Symantec to serve as CAO at the security software maker. The appointment took effect Monday and he will report to Symantec Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert, the company announced Monday. During his time at Brightstar, Garfield implemented SOX level internal controls such as an […] More

  • Vincent Sandoval Appointed CIRCOR Aerospace & Defense President; Scott Buckhour Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vincent Sandoval Appointed CIRCOR Aerospace & Defense President; Scott Buckhour Comments

    Vincent Sandoval has joined engineered product provider CIRCOR International as president of the company’s aerospace and defense group, effective March 19. He most recently served as president of the Semco Instruments subsidiary TransDigm Group, CIRCOR announced Thursday. Scott Buckhout, CIRCOR president and CEO, said Sandoval will work to help the company improve its operating margins, […] More

  • Douglas McCrosson Named CPI Aerostructures President and CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Douglas McCrosson Named CPI Aerostructures President and CEO

    Douglas J. McCrosson has been appointed as the new president and chief executive officer of CPI Aerostructures Inc., effective March 6. McCrosson, who was also appointed to the company’s board of directors, will replace Edward J. Fred who resigned for personal reasons, the company announced Thursday. Since joining CPI Aeros in 2003, McCrosson has served […] More

  • Lexmark Exec John Gagel Joins Manufacturing Leadership Community Board of Governors; David Brousell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lexmark Exec John Gagel Joins Manufacturing Leadership Community Board of Governors; David Brousell Comments

    John D. Gagel, Lexmark International corporate manager of sustainability, has been appointed to the board of governors of the Manufacturing Leadership Community. The MLC is a global business network for senior industrial executives, the MLC said Monday. Gagel was elected to the board along with Eric Fidoten, Campell Soup vice president of supply chain strategy and operations excellence. […] More