Jeffrey Phelan, former public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, has joined artificial intelligence cloud technology provider H2O.ai as public sector growth lead.
H2O.ai told GovCon Wire that Phelan will lead the company’s efforts to build a channel focused on the federal system integrator community and oversee its distribution partnership with Carahsoft.
“His unique skill set will accelerate our growth and enable our systems integrators and channel partner ecosystem to achieve their client’s mission outcomes faster and smarter,” said Ro Dhanda, vice president of public sector at H2O.ai.
Dhanda added that Phelan’s FSI and program background will enable the company to quickly deliver measurable value and benefits to existing programs, for new pursuits, and in complex mission areas that need to make, operate, and innovate with both real-time and historical data sets on a global scale.
In his most recent role, Phelan oversaw Rubrik’s digital transformation, growth and strategy in the public sector market. He previously served as portfolio lead on the milCloud 2 program at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business and worked as director of strategic growth at Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: GD) information systems sector.
Phelan said he will lead Rubrik’s work with systems integrators and channel partners to support data, AI and analytics requirements of customers across the federal, state and local government and educational sectors.
His appointment comes one month after the AI software company named David Epperson, former chief information security officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as federal CISO for the public sector team.
