Executive Spotlight

Barbara Humpton serves as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Siemens Government Technologies, the U.S. federal business organization of the German industrial conglomerate. She elevated to the COO post in December 2014 after three years as the business’ SVP of business development. In that role, she led work to bring Siemens’ offerings in energy, infrastructure and […] More

Lance Howden, a 16-year technology sales veteran, serves as a senior director at Hortonworks and works with agencies in the intelligence community. He leads teams that develop and promote the company’s offerings to U.S. homeland security, intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies. He has worked on customer and strategic partnerships as well as other programs for the intelligence community. Howden previously held positions […] More

Ray Harris is chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies and brings more than 20 years of enterprise technology, management and cybersecurity experience to the role. He has led the company’s efforts to build an enterprise resource planning system and a central database for managing business functions and performance across the organization. Harris also implemented […] More

Robin Lineberger serves as lead client service partner for the aerospace and defense industry practice of Deloitte. where he also holds a senior adviser title. He previously served as CEO of the firm’s federal government services business, where he led a team at least 7,000 professionals to provide risk advisory, consulting and financial advisory services to U.S. government agencies. Lineberger is […] More

Chris Smith serves as vice president of technology for the government solutions business at AT&T, a role the company announced him for in late 2013. In this position, Smith leads 175 technologists that develop products and services for the telecommunications provider’s federal agency customers. The 25-year federal market veteran previously served as U.S. federal chief technology and innovation […] More

Robert Carey serves as vice president and general manager for the public sector cybersecurity business at Computer Sciences Corp. He joined the company in April after a 32-year government career that concluded with three-and-a-half years of work as principal chief information officer at the U.S. Defense Department. Carey also led eBusiness and smart card programs […] More

George Newstrom serves as vice president and general manager of the federal government services business at Dell. Prior to Dell, he served as president and chief operating officer of Lee Technologies, president and CEO of WiSPER Technologies and as a corporate senior vice president at EDS. He has also served as secretary of technology, chief information officer and chief strategist for the state of […] More

Robert Zitz is a senior vice president and chief systems architect at Leidos, tasked to help oversee development efforts on the company’s business, technology and technical plans, concepts and strategies. He has more than three decades of experience in the intelligence community space, previously filling leadership roles at the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, […] More

Joseph Sifer serves as a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and is in charge of the company’s U.S. Army business. He has more than 20 years of experience in advisory work for domestic and international government and commercial clients on technology and management concerns. Sifer’s industry experience covers a range of fields such as C4ISR, avionics, remote sensing, wireless systems, IT infrastructure, […] More

Richard Montoni, MAXIMUS CEO, has signed a statement of support for the Defense Department‘s employee service in the National Guard and reserve forces. Capt. Steve Knight, ESGR director of national operations and plans, joined Montoni to sign the statement at the MAXIMUS corporate offices in Reston, Virginia, MAXIMUS said Monday. “Our statement of support with the ESGR leadership reconfirms our commitment to hiring […] More

Curt Kolcun serves as vice president of Microsoft’s U.S. public sector business vertical, a position he started in the summer of 2008 after five years as head of the software maker’s U.S. federal business. In this role, Kolcun is responsible for sales, contracting, citizenship and marketing efforts for the company’s U.S. government, education and public sector healthcare markets. Executive […] More