A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense said Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) are the last two contenders for DoD’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Elissa Smith, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said Microsoft and Amazon were...
Ken Folderauer, a more than three-decade public sector and telecommunications industry veteran, has joined Comcast Business as vice president of the newly created federal government services segment. He will oversee the segment™s go-to-market strategy, establishment of a public sector-focused sales channel and delivery of communications platfor...
Graham Smith, former chief financial officer at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named chairman of the board of directors of data management software vendor Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK). Smith has served as a board member at Splunk over the past eight years, the company said Monday. He previously held finance leadership roles at Advent Software, Vitria...
Sean Dillon, former chief technology officer of the homeland security portfolio at Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business, has been named CTO of information technology and management consulting services provider Strategic Enterprise Solutions. SE Solutions said Thursday Dillon will be based in the company’s Tysons Cor...
Kevin Davis, a 25-year technology sales veteran in the government market, has been appointed vice president of the public sector business at analytics technology provider Databricks. He will focus on efforts to help customer agencies adopt artificial intelligence through the combination of data and machine learning approaches in a single platform, D...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 13, 2019 ” MuleSoft, a business unit of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has hired government market veteran Jude Boyle to serve as assistant vice president for federal sales, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. G2Xchange ETC reported Monday that Boyle brings experience from his previous work with technology companies Sp...
William Welch, formerly president and chief operating officer of Duo Security, has been named co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity. He will serve in the role alongside retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander and help drive IronNet’s commercial efforts to expand operations worldwide, the company said Monday. Welch previously held senior lea...
Davis Johnson, formerly senior vice president and head of public sector at Riverbed Technology, has joined San Jose, Calif.-based enterprise storage provider Cohesity as VP of federal business. Johnson said in a statement published Tuesday that he will work with the Cohesity team to advance the federal adoption of the company™s web-scale platfo...
Tom Emert, formerly a senior client executive at Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), has joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions as director for federal business development, G2Xchange ETC reported Wednesday. He will work with federal clients to help them assess potential risks, thwart fraud and deliver services to people in the U.S. Prior to Oracle, Emert...
Ray Falcione, former director of federal programs at Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE), has joined OmniSci as vice president of the analytics firm’s U.S. federal business. The more than 25-year industry veteran will lead efforts to grow OmniSci’s government market presence, strengthen partnerships and help clients implement technology,...
