Janet Brewer and Jim Gallagher, former executives at Perspecta, were named to the executive leadership team of Arcfield to oversee its human resources and legal operations, respectively. Brewer will lead the execution of people-related initiatives as chief people officer while Gallagher will provide advice on law, privacy, contracting, investment and compliance as chief legal officer, […] More

KPMG, one of the “big four” accounting organizations, has made its first direct investment in Bitcoin and Ethereum in a move that adds cryptoassets to the firm’s balance sheet and represents its embrace of the emerging global asset class. The allocation of cryptoassets to KPMG in Canada’s corporate treasury marks a monumental step in the […] More

The exponentially increasing use of digital currencies and cryptocurrencies worldwide has introduced a new kind of economic actor to the global stage. With hundreds of millions of users across the globe, this unregulated digital economy is rapidly expanding its footprint in the private sector, and the public sector is taking notice. Gurvais Grigg, chief technology […] More

The Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI) has appointed Bill Rowan, vice president of Federal Sales at VMware and three-time Wash100 Award recipient, to the ADI Board of Directors, ADI reported on Wednesday.

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Bill Turk, former vice president and general counsel of Omniplex World Services, and Taylor Johnson, former deputy general counsel at Raytheon’s Blackbird Technologies subsidiary, have joined the in-house legal team of Virginia-based operations support provider SOS International. Turk was most recently responsible for Omniplex’s merger and acquisition, contract negotiation, intellectual property and corporate governance functions, SOSi said […] More

Bill Rowan was appointed vice president of the federal business at cloud computing and virtualization company VMware in November after nearly four years at the firm. Rowan joined VMware in 2010 to lead its Defense Department business and the nearly 25-year veteran also held leadership roles at firms such as IBM, MicroStrategy and Storage Technology Corp. In […] More

Joe Ciano serves as vice president for capture operations and excellence at Lockheed Martin’s information systems & global solutions (IS&GS) organization. In this role, he is responsible for new business capture, major program new business pursuits, financial strategies, proposal operations and competitive intelligence for an $8.3 billion business area serving government and commercial customers worldwide. Prior to this position, […] More

Cisco will spend more than $1 billion during the next two years to expand its cloud computing business and deliver enterprise cloud services through a global partner ecosystem. The Intercloud network will offer a suite of analytics, security and data sovereignty architectures to support the Internet of Everything, Cisco said Monday. Telstra, Canopy, Logicalis Group, […] More