Deloitte has appointed John Coykendall, a principal at its consulting business, to lead the company’s U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector within the U.S. industrial products and construction practice. Coykendall will also lead Deloitte's global aerospace and defense sector, succeeding Robin Lineberger, who will retire in May.
Read More »Jacobs Elects Manny Fernandez to Board of Directors; Steve Demetriou Quoted
Jacobs has elected Manny Fernandez, managing partner at KPMG, to the company’s Board of Directors, Jacobs reported on Thursday. Fernandez will retire from KPMG on Sept. 30th and join the Jacobs’ Board of Directors on Oct. 5th. Fernandez will bring nearly four decades of experience, advising both public and private companies.
Read More »WBB Recognized as Best Workplace in Professional Services, Consulting Industry; Beth Skoletsky Quoted
Whitney, Bradley & Brown has been selected by the Great Place to Work Institute and Fortune magazine as one of this year's list of the best places to work in consulting and professional services.
Read More »Federal IT Market Vet Rahul Johri Appointed Synergy BIS Growth VP
Rahul Johri, a more than 17-year federal information technology consulting industry veteran, has joined Synergy BIS as vice president of growth at the Virginia-based information technology services contractor, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.
Read More »AWS Certifies Enlighten IT Consulting as Cloud Managed Service Provider; Dave Levy Quoted
Amazon Web Services has approved a MacAulay-Brown susbidiary to provide managed services to government customers of AWS cloud technology. Prior to the approval, Enlighten IT Consulting completed a third-party assessment on its service offerings with involvement of clients who use big data and analytics platforms in GovCloud, MacB said Thursday. …
Read More »Dennis Chesley Named Guidehouse Partner; Scott McIntyre Comments
Dennis Chesley, former global leader of risk consulting at PwC, has joined Guidehouse as financial risk management partner. Guidehouse said Tuesday the more than 25-year consulting veteran will oversee strategic advisory services for risk management, operations, compliance, internal control and technology in his new position. “[Chelsey] experience and ability to help clients navigate risk and …
Read More »PwC Public Sector Rebrands as ‘Guidehouse’ Under Veritas Management
The PwC Public Sector business acquired by investment firm Veritas Capital in May now operates under the name Guidehouse, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Guidehouse’s website says the company will offer technology, management and strategy consulting services to multiple sectors that include the defense, national security and state and local government markets. …
Read More »DRT Obtains AWS Consulting Partner Designation
Amazon Web Services has granted a Standard-Tier Consulting Partner status to DRT Strategies through the cloud infrastructure provider’s partner network. Arlington, Va.-based DRT said Monday it has supported customers in the design, development, migration and management of applications and workloads with the AWS platform. Chris Zeiders, managing director of DRT’ technology solutions business, said …
Read More »Booz Allen Eyes Growth With Tech Talent; Horacio Rozanski Comments
Booz Allen Hamilton executives believe talent recruitment and retention efforts will serve as a growth driver for the company moving forward, The Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “We feel really good about our overall capacity to attract and retain the right kind of talent,” Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski told analysts …
Read More »CGI Eyes Business Expansion Via Acquisitions; George Schindler Comments
CGI intends to make more acquisitions as part of its business expansion efforts and the Canada-based information technology consulting firm indicated it has at least 780 companies in its “active” pipeline, CRN reported Wednesday. “Over 80 percent of that current funnel, and we’ll be adding to that, is generated from …
Read More »Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners’ IT Consulting Network
M7 Global Partners has added Convergence Technology Consulting to the consortium’s roster of information technology consulting companies. Columbia, Maryland-based Convergence Technology’s cyber and enterprise infrastructure consulting experience will help grow M7 Global Partners’ presence in the public sector, the consortium said Tuesday. Convergence Technology offers data security, enterprise IT, support and recovery …
Read More »IBM to Offer Free Consulting Services Via ‘Smarter Cities’ Challenge
IBM has selected five municipalities across the world to receive pro bono consulting services from the company’s teams of experts on issues related to public safety, immigration, economic development and affordable housing as part of the Smarter Cities Challenge program. The company picked San Jose, California; Busan, South Korea; San …
Read More »Nation Analytics-Celero Team Seeks to Offer Analytics-Based Consulting Service to GovCon Investors
Nation Analytics and Celero Strategies have teamed up to provide a consulting service to investors in the government contracting sector. The service offering combines Nation Analytics’ intelligence data analytics platforms with Celero’s consulting support services designed to provide users updates on custom market reports and analyses as well as competitor …
Read More »Former Honeywell Exec Pete Costa Named as Jensen Hughes’ Global Operations President
Pete Costa, a former vice president and general manager at Honeywell‘s building solutions business, has joined Jensen Hughes as president of global operations at the Baltimore, Maryland-based fire protection systems and engineering consulting services provider. Jensen Hughes said Tuesday Costa brings more than 25 years of general management and operations experience in the fields of safety, regulatory compliance and security to his new …
Read More »Former NASA CTO Deborah Diaz Named Principal at Deep Water Point
Deborah Diaz, formerly chief technology officer and deputy chief information officer of NASA, has joined federal market consulting firm Deep Water Point as a principal. She will provide assistance in strategy development, implementation planning, information technology investment planning and technologies projects to Deep Water Point clients in her new role, the company said …
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