Mehdi Cherqaoui serves as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Phacil, where he oversees the company’s financial and administrative affairs. He was previously the finance and mergers and acquisitions VP, and then corporate controller and VP of PAE from October 2012 to June 2015 before joining Phacil. Prior to PAE, Cherqaoui served […] More

Ray Winn serves as a partner at Deloitte‘s federal practice and also is the lead client service partner for the company’s practice focused on defense acquisition, test and logistics. He also previously held the roles of federal leader and chief operating officer within the federal practice as well as LCSP for the Navy System Command and U.S. Marine Corps practice and lead […] More

  The government contracting industry experienced a robust period of mergers and acquisitions that reshaped its composition in 2015 and continued executive transitions between companies. As companies merge and new identities enter the market, some businesses face a challenge to fill vacant leadership positions. From time to time, GovCon firms of all shape and sizes […] More

Xena Ugrinsky, formerly a partner at KPMG‘s U.S. advisory practice, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a leader in the McLean, Va.-based consulting contractor’s commercial group. Ugrinsky will be responsible for Booz Allen’s efforts to deliver services to internal and external clients by combining data analytics strategies and modernization initiatives, the firm said Thursday. “She will immediately engage […] More

Vernon Butler serves as defense and intelligence business unit lead at Grant Thornton, with responsibility for that organization’s business development activities. He previously served as a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and led that firm’s U.S. Navy and Marine Corps strategy and organization business. Butler’s career includes roles such as Deloitte Federal Optimization executive, BearingPoint Office Enterprise Risk […] More

Glen Post,  CenturyLink CEO and president, said Tuesday that Ross Garrity, the company’s senior vice president of information technology solutions, will be the interim lead of the global markets group following the retirement of Karen Puckett from the role on Aug. 31. “Ross has over 30 years of IT services experience having served as senior partner […] More

Dan Mennel, formerly managing director at KPMG, has been appointed as a partner to oversee Grant Thornton’s San Jose, California-based strategic federal tax services group. He has worked at companies in aerospace, manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors and dealt with issues concerning research and development tax credits, Grant Thornton said Tuesday. “Dan’s broad and deep knowledge […] More

Steve Fehr serves as senior vice president and general manager of license sales at SAP National Security Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP known as SAP NS2. He holds more than 25 years of experience in the professional services and enterprise software sectors and has held positions in sales management, operations management, business and information technology strategy, system integration, […] More

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 two decades of experience in […] More

Phil Freedenberg has been vice president of business development at SAP National Security Services — or SAP NS2 — since 2011 and has served in leadership roles at SAP since 2007 over areas such as strategic account management in both the aerospace and defense sectors. Prior to SAP, the 25-year industry veteran helped to develop the aerospace and defense practice at […] More

Kevin Shelly serves as vice president for the public sector at MarkLogic, where he has formulated sales strategy, policy and aligned resources for customer activities since he took that role in November 2012. He brings experience management consulting and systems integration to his current role from a prior tenure at KPMG/BearingPoint. After BearingPoint, Shelly became SVP of […] More

                          ————————————————————————————————————————————– Some believe there is no shortage of good executive recruiters that work in the GovCon marketplace. However, many firms face challenges during the process to seek a executive recruiter for help to fill a key position. ExecutiveBiz spoke to senior leaders at some of the GovCon […] More