Elizabeth de la Cruz

Mercer Rowe, former vice president of strategic partners at IBM‘s Watson and cloud computing platforms, has been named senior VP and general manager of a newly formed cloud business at Avaya. He will oversee research, development and sales of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in his new position, Avaya said Wednesday. Jim Chirico, president and CEO at […] More

Diane Swonk, founder of private consulting firm DS Economics, has joined Grant Thornton as chief economist and she will be based in the professional services company’s Chicago headquarters. Grant Thornton said Monday Swonk will aim to grow client services through her economic forecasting skills and previous experience as an adviser to central banks, policy makers and multinational organizations. […] More

James Skulina, an executive vice president of TransDigm Group, has been appointed interim chief financial officer at the Cleveland-based aircraft components maker. He will succeed Terrance Paradie, who stepped down from the CFO role and will remain with Transdigm through April 2 to assist with the transition, the company said Tuesday. “[Skulina] has substantial experience as a […] More

George Wilson, president and CEO of ECS Federal, has been elected to the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. Wilson is one of 11 newly elected member-company executives who will each serve a three-year term on the council’s board effective Jan. 1, PSC said Monday. He will work with other new and re-elected board and executive committee members […] More

Leidos has been featured in Newsweek’s annual list of 500 U.S. publicly traded companies that have demonstrated efforts to help protect the environment. The company said Tuesday it landed the 38th spot on the 2017 Green Rankings and received the “greenest company” designation in the information and technology category. Newsweek ranked companies based on their initiatives to preserve […] More

EY has appointed six executives to support the operations, execution and strategies of the professional services company’s global business. They will also help implement the EY’s Vision 2020 strategy designed to assist customers in efforts to address digital disruption challenges as well as facilitate audit and innovation programs, the company said Thursday. Mark Weinberger, EY global chairman […] More

Symantec has been included on Gartner‘s “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers” that details the performance of vendors, leaders, challengers, visionaries and niche players in the CASB market. The company said Monday it made the leaders quadrant for its CloudSOC platform designed to help organizations secure data and applications in a cloud environment. Gartner evaluated […] More

Peter LaMontagne, former CEO of analytics company Novetta, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Chantilly, Virginia-based geospatial and security technology provider OGSystems. OGSystems said Monday LaMontagne brings to his more than 17 years of national security and technology experience in the commercial and federal markets to the company. “We are very excited that Peter will […] More

Doug Wagoner, former sector president at Science Applications International Corp., has joined the board of directors at management and technology consulting services contractor TeraThink. The 30-year federal market veteran will work with TeraThink’s other board members to support corporate management efforts and policies, the company said Tuesday. Wagoner previously supervised 13,500 employees who support government customers in the […] More

NASA has chosen two groups composed of agency technologists and their external partners to conduct research projects and receive grants worth up to $2.5 million over two years. The selected teams will participate in NASA’s Early Career Initiative program that offers technologists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience developing systems that can support future space […] More

Andy Meister, formerly vice president of engineering at OptioLabs, has been appointed to the same position at security technology developer Silent Circle. He brings more than 30 years of software development, mobile, entrepreneurial and management experience and he aims to help expand the company’s technology portfolio in his new role, Silent Circle said Tuesday. Gregg Smith, CEO of Silent […] More

CenturyLink has received seven awards during the MEF 2017 Awards networking event in Orlando, Florida, which recognized companies’ network and managed services offerings. The company said Friday it secured the awards for its application, service and technology innovation, including software-defined wide-area networking. Andrew Dugan, senior vice president of technology planning, network architecture and security at CenturyLink, […] More