Executive Moves

Marisa Veseli, formerly director of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Agency programs at Peraton, said on LinkedIn on Friday that she had been promoted to senior director of business development for the company's defense enterprise and health business. In her most recent role, Veseli was responsible for overseeing the development of multiple VA and DHA programs including the technical, schedule and cost performance aspects.

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Tom Burkholder has transitioned from his role as vice president of capture and proposal management to VP and sector manager at SilverEdge Government Solutions. His experience in the defense contracting industry includes nearly a decade at Parsons and more than five years at Lockheed Martin.

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Whitney Palacios, former director at BigBear.ai, was promoted to the role of chief information security officer at the Columbia, Maryland-based developer of artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence offerings. The move was announced by James Dalton, vice president of information technology at BigBear.

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Salman Rashid, a 25-year financial and consulting industry veteran, has been selected to succeed Josh Heid as chief financial officer at construction engineering company Woolpert. Rashid will oversee the company's financial, legal and administration functions and help drive acquisitions and organic growth in his new position.

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Billy Nolen, former acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been elected to the board of directors at commercial aviation services provider AAR Corp. The U.S. Army veteran brings over three decades of experience in aviation safety management, operations, certification and regulatory affairs.

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Steve Murphy, formerly vice president of contracts and subcontracts at General Motors' defense subsidiary, has been named VP of contracts for global procurement and supply chain at GM Defense. He announced his new post Thursday on LinkedIn and assumed the role after leading contractual oversight for the defense business for more than a year.

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Derrick Lee, a retired U.S. Army colonel with decades of leadership experience in the military, has been named director for intelligence programs at SOS International. SOSi said Tuesday Lee will manage the business relating to military intelligence directorates and serve as a strategic advisor to clients on multi-domain intelligence operations.

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Lynker, a Leesburg, Virginia-based science, engineering and technology company, has created a president post and selected Scott Rayder, former chief of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to assume the new role. "With a proven track record of driving growth and innovation, Scott is poised to lead Lynker into a new era of success," said Lynker Founder and CEO Joe Linza.

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James Geurts, former assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, and Brian Hibbeln, former assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for special capabilities, have been named to the advisory board of Leonid Capital Partners. Both advisers bring decades of combined military and government experience and will advise the Leonid leadership team on advancing its mission objectives.

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Aerospace and defense company RTX has appointed Amanda Sorensen as corporate vice president for talent. Sorensen, who transitioned from her most recent role as vice president of human resources at RTX business Raytheon, describes herself on LinkedIn as a "[versatile] and results driven" leader in HR, whose experience includes change management, workforce development and talent management.

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Stephen Townsend, a retired U.S. Army four-star general who served as combatant commander of Africa Command, was added to the federal advisory board of Primer Technologies. He brings over three years of AFRICOM leadership experience and several years of Army service to the federal advisory board, which was establishd to provide Primer with expertise and operation insights as the company works to deliver artificial intelligence tools to analysts and operators.

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Vikas Sharma, former principal technical director at IBM subsidiary Octo, has assumed the vice president of solutions role at health information technology company Cognosante. Sharma has over three decades of industry experience in program management, digital transformation, cloud deployment and enterprise infrastructure development.

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