Tim Conway is the executive vice president for Keane Public Sector. In this capacity, Conway oversees the company’s U.S. business in the federal, state and local marketplaces. Before Conway joined Keane in June 2010, he was senior vice president and managing director of Federal Solutions for ACS, A Xerox company. During this time, he was […] More

Douglas Charles is Capgemini’s vice president of market development and sales officer for the Technology Services (TS) division in North America.   Charles is tasked with leading the business unit“™s market development and sales strategy.  He spoke with ExecutiveBiz about goals, challenges and the culture at “Cap.” ExecutiveBiz: Could you tell me a little bit about […] More

The Obama administration’s design to cut down “wasteful” spending is lurching toward reality. In a bid to curb wasteful spending, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Ashton Carter is making good on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ call to tighten the defense spending budget, while President Barack Obama’s budget and technology braintrust has put at least […] More

Randy Slager is chief executive officer of Catapult Technology. He founded the company in 1996 and has since then overseen the its expansion. He is responsible for leadership to the company’s “nine lines of business that provide the full gamut of information technology services,” as he described in an ExecutiveBiz interview. Catapult provides system support […] More

This week, QinetiQ North America’s Chief Information Officer Frank Kist gave advice for those who are new to the IT market. Vic See, senior vice president at IAI, shared what his company does to keep customers such as NGA, Air Force and NOAA happy. Dr. Charles Palmer, IBM Research's chief technology officer of security & […] More

Frank Kist serves as Chief Information Officer at QinetiQ North America, bringing years of experience from a variety of sources including the music industry and IBM. ExecutiveBiz: You have a very diverse background in terms of where you have worked. How were you able to sharpen your IT skills while working in so many different […] More

This week, two executives from Northrop Grumman talked to ExecutiveBiz: Kathy Warner talked to TheNewNewInternet about how to work toward a more international collaboration to fight cyber crime, and HR pro Michele Toth spoke about how to recruit and obtain the best talent. Diane Gongaware of Cisco spoke to ExecutiveBiz about some of the most […] More

Andrew Maner is Chief Executive Officer of National Interest Security Company (NISC), An IBM Company. Before joining NISC, Maner was President of ABM LLC, and served as Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Homeland Security from January 2002 to March 2006. While he was CFO for the Department of Homeland Security, Maner was responsible for the […] More

In a recent blog post, Navy CIO Robert Carey outlined some of the key lessons he learned from Lou Gerstner’s, the former CEO of IBM, book Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance. Carey believes there are several lessons from the book that are applicable to the “internal issues that are keeping the Department of the Navy […] More

Robert McCord serves as Chief Operating Officer for 2020 Company, LLC. Named COO in 2009, McCord oversees the overall strategic vision of the company and concentrates on business development and market offering. As 2020“™s COO, Robert brings a unique perspective in general management, corporate operations, business development and finance. McCord leads the company’s direction of […] More

At the recent AusCERT conference, attendees who stopped by the booth of one particular vendor received USB drives that were pre-infected with malware. During the conference in Queensland, delegates were given free USB drives at one of the booths. The drives were infected with malware that has been known since 2008 and is detected by […] More

After spending more than 15 years in a large corporation, Mike Bowers took the plunge and joined a smaller company, working his way to the position of senior vice president of the homeland security and civilian sector at INDUS. He recently talked to GovCon Executive about being an underdog in the corporate world, what it […] More