Faryar Shirzad, most recently global co-head of the office of government affairs at Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), has joined Coinbase Global (Nasdaq: COIN) as chief policy officer. He will engage with regulators, lawmakers and other policymakers to address issues surrounding the cryptoeconomy and realize its full potential, Coinbase said Monday. S...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has received a 2021 Wash100 Award for driving national security strategies and defense, developing technology solutions and promoting workforce initiatives. This marks Burns’ first Wash100 Award. In Feb. 2021, the Senate Intelligence Comm...
President Joe Biden has nominated Christine Wormuth, director of the RAND Corp.’s International Security and Defense Policy Center, as secretary of the U.S. Army. Wormuth served as the Department of Defense’s undersecretary for policy during the Obama administration where she helped inform the defense secretary’s decisions on national...
Sean Plankey, a cybersecurity and government veteran, has been appointed director of cyber missions at enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot. He will oversee the development and integration of DataRobot’s AI technology into cybersecurity platforms for government and commercial markets, the company said Thursday. Plankey’s appointm...
With a month left in the Wash100 voting season, more than 8,600 votes have been cast thus far to determine who the government contracting (GovCon) community believes will become the most significant executive of consequence to the federal sector for the rest of 2021 and in the years to come. The Wash100 Award is presented...
A draft of an executive order would direct software companies to inform federal agency clients in the event of a cyber attack within their organizations, keep more digital records and work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI on incident response efforts, Reuters reported Friday. The order would require multifactor a...
Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology at the National Security Council and an inductee into Executive Mosaic's Wash100 for 2021, has been appointed to lead the White House's response to the SolarWinds cyber attack that affected the public and private sector customers, the Wall Street Journal rep...
President Joe Biden said his administration is introducing an “urgent initiative” to improve the country’s cybersecurity, The Hill reported Thursday....
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, will proudly present the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and prominent award in all of GovCon, to the 100 distinguished executives who have demonstrated excellence in leadership, innovation, ...
President Joe Biden plans to appoint former Obama administration officials Jen Easterly, Robert Silvers and Eric Goldstein to top three cybersecurity positions, Politico reported Friday. Sources said Biden is likely to name Easterly to the newly created role of national cyber director at the White House to help guide the current administration’s c...
