Interview with CoVant Co-Founder Joseph Kampf on First Acquisition

In 2006 Anteon, one of the area’s largest government contractors, was sold to General Dynamics for $2.1 billion. The transaction marked the successful culmination of a stratospheric growth story for the Anteon management team, which had guided the contractor from a $100 million company to the $2 billion mark in a decade’s time.

While Anteon began a new chapter as General Dynamics, principals of its management team also decided it was time to turn the page. Anteon President and CEO Joseph Kampf, Executive VP of Technology Seymour L. Moskowitz, Executive VP of Corporate Development Mark Heilman, VP of Corporate Development Gerald Dorros, and Senior VP Roger Gurner all decided to move on.

On the heels of the transaction, each was certainly in a financial position to retire after long and accomplished careers in the industry if so desired. But this was a uniquely tight-knit management team, and it didn’t take long for the group to decide it wasn’t ready to break out the golf clubs just yet – nor was it ready to sever a working relationship that for some traced back more than 20 years.

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