Executive Spotlight

Rod Volz serves as Vice President of Client Services, Deputy COO at Solutions By Design, an IT management support services company. His 27 years of professional services experience includes leadership roles in profit and loss management, business development and program management. Formerly Volz was the founder and managing principal at FutureBridge, …

Satish Chenchal serves as director of program management at Solutions By Design, where he oversees programmatic activities and facilitates the company’s working relationship with enterprise clients. Delivering business services, program planning, project management, contract negotiations, and reduction in IT expenditures resulting in system refinement and cost savings. He holds almost …

Greg Wenzel, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, is one of several company leaders for the firm’s organization focused on new ideas and concepts related to technology — the Strategic Innovation Group. In a January 2014 interview with ExecutiveBiz, Wenzel overviewed the firm’s push to help its public sector partners adopt an enterprise …

Jordin Cohen joined Noblis in January 2014 and serves as director for the homeland security and defense division within the company’s national security and intelligence mission business. His background includes work in areas such as cybersecurity, intelligence, critical infrastructure protection, homeland defense, counterterrorism, business administration. Prior to Noblis, Cohen directed …

Michael Tanner serves as president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. and has managed the organization’s operations and growth since its official launch as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems in April 2013. Tanner, a more than 30-year business management veteran, joined HDS in 2007 and …

Robin Portman oversees business development function at Booz Allen Hamilton in her role as an executive vice president for the consulting and contracting firm. She supports the firm’s work in the defense, security, civil and commercial sectors through leadership of a BD organization that seeks to understand and analyze market shifts for proposal development. In …

John Abeles is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of System 1, an information technology and infrastructure security company that he founded in 1989. The more than 30-year public and private sector veteran has led the company’s efforts to build platforms for civilian, intelligence and commercial clients, as well …

Ernest Wohnig serves as senior vice president of critical infrastructure security at System 1 and is responsible for strategic direction, business development and client engagement functions in the infrastructure sector. Wohnig has held the role since March 2014 and oversees the company’s work with public and private infrastructure operators to …

Joe Ayers leads Hewlett-Packard‘s federal enterprise group as its vice president and general manager and leads a team that provides technology and consulting services to federal agencies. Ayers, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, led Dell’s business for two years before he joined HP and is also …

Stephen Kovac, a 23-year information technology veteran, serves as executive vice president for strategy and business development at Vazata‘s public sector business. He has responsibility for the development of procurement strategies and product roadmaps in the federal, state and local government and education markets. Prior to Vazata, he served as …

Tony Frazier became senior vice president of DigitalGlobe‘s government solutions business earlier this year and oversees the geospatial imagery provider’s work with U.S. government customers. Frazier, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, joined DigitalGlobe through its 2013 combination with GeoEye, where he led communications and marketing initiatives in an SVP …

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, oversees direction and policy functions for the British satellite services provider’s U.S. government business unit. The nearly three-decade aerospace and defense veteran is also a former member of the Senior Executive Service and served as a program executive officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency …

At Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector, Matt McQueen acts as its main spokesperson and communications liason to external stakeholders as the sector’s director of strategic and external communications. McQueen’s career at Northrop prior to that role includes nearly a decade as director for the sector’s government and industry relations functions and more recently as the company’s government …

Wayne Lucernoni leads the information technology business of Harris Corp. as president out of the unit’s headquarters in Herndon, Va. Lucernoni, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, first joined the Melbourne, Fla.-based communications and technology contractor in 1990 and previously served as vice president and general manager for Harris’ intelligence, civil …

Matt Truong serves as director of business development at NCR‘s government systems business unit and is in charge of BD operations throughout the public sector. He joined NCR in May 2014 after two years of work in a similar role within the national defense group of Kratos Defense & Security …