Executive Spotlight

Mara Motherway is the director of special projects at BAE Systems‘ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance segment and is responsible for the business’ corporate growth and future investments in ISR electronic systems. Before joining BAE Systems in October 2013, she served as principal strategic adviser to the Defense Intelligence Agency director on C-suite strategic engagement and the […] More

Paul Smith currently serves as vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s public sector business, where he oversees consulting, sales and marketing, channels and strategic planning activities. He is responsible for the business that provides services in support of the U.S. federal government’s international programs and domestic programs for state and local governments and the education […] More

Candy Curtin serves as senior vice president for human resources at Serco and is a more than 20-year HR administration veteran in both public and private sectors. In this role, she oversees all aspects of human capital operation including recruitment, compensation, benefits, compliance, talent management and business support. Curtin joined Serco in 2005 through the […] More

Kevin Boyle serves as general counsel for Alion Science and Technology, where he supports corporate governance and ethics programs as well as the company’s strategic growth initiatives. He joined the company in January 2014 after two years of work in a similar role at MCR. Boyle oversaw the establishment of MCR’s first legal department and […] More

Kamal Narang serves as vice president for SRA International‘s health business unit and is responsible for overseeing the subsidiary’s work to deliver professional services and information technology products in the federal healthcare sector. Prior to his current role, Narang managed an SRA team of IT and bioinformatics professionals that provide program support at the U.S. […] More

John Foley is the chief financial officer and corporate treasurer at DSA, an employee-owned company that offers information technology and consulting services to federal civilian and defense agencies. Prior to joining DSA in October 2009, he worked as a controller in Cigna‘s shared services organization and held various positions at Lockheed Martin for 13 years. […] More

Steve Costalas serves as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Vencore and is in charge of corporate ethics, procurement, contracts, pricing and legal activities. He joined the company in 2011 when it was known as The SI Organization and plays a key role in business risk assessment as well as merger and acquisition […] More

Kris Hekking assumed his current role as division chief financial officer for Dell‘s federal government solutions business in 2013. He is a certified public accountant with two decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, GovCon compliance, financial systems implementation, public accounting, SOX/internal controls, and financial planning, modeling and assessment. Prior to Dell, Hekking was director of accounting and […] More

Tim Meehan is senior vice president at CenturyLink who leads the engineering, operations, sales and marketing teams for Platform CenturyLink Government as the company’s general manager for federal business. Platform CenturyLink Government provides cloud, cybersecurity, network and other information technology services to its public sector clients. Prior to CenturyLink, Meehan was vice president for cloud services at […] More

Brent Adamson serves as managing director of executive advisory services for the Corporate Executive Board’s sales and marketing leadership councils, where he has worked on various sales and marketing studies. He most recently worked at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business before joining CEB and previously served as professor of German and applied […] More

Matthew Warren is the president of the justice and homeland security sector of Agilex, a mission and technology services provider based in Chantilly, Va. He joined Agilex in 2008 from Oracle and is responsible for Agilex’s programs with the departments of Homeland Security and Justice. During his time at Oracle, Warren handled the company’s sales programs for […] More