Steve Frank, a cybersecurity executive leader, has been appointed chief information security officer at KPMG, he announced on LinkedIn Wednesday. In addition, Frank will serve the same role for KPMG Americas, the New York-based member firm of the multinational professional services network. The executive succeeds John Israel for both posit...
KPMG has appointed Patrick Ryan, a more than 24-year operational and business development leader, as managing partner of the professional services firm’s Washington, D.C. office and head of the U.S. federal sector. Ryan will succeed Tim Gillis, who is set to retire on Sept. 30 after a more than two-decade career at KPMG, and will...
KPMG has won a potential five-year, $82.4 million blanket purchase agreement to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s financial improvement and audit readiness efforts. DLA’s contracting services office received four responses to the competitive acquisition for the firm-fixed-price agreement under a multiple-award contract vehicle, the ...
Kyle McKendrick, senior enterprise account executive at ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), and Daniel Gruber, specialist managing director at KPMG, said government agencies looking to drive business transformation on a modern platform should partner with a multifaceted industry team that takes a holistic approach to modernization. In a joint article published ...
James DeVaul, formerly a federal advisory partner at KPMG, has been appointed director of federal business at information technology services provider Bulletproof. The nearly 30-year federal market veteran will support Bulletproof’s growth efforts within the sector, the GLI company said Thursday. While at KPMG, DeVaul helped craft the firmR...
Melissa Jaffe, former senior adviser for data and analytics at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has joined KPMG‘s federal health practice to serve as director and provide leadership assistance in its advisory efforts focused on health regulation and policy, FedHealthIT reported Monday. The executive brings to her new role over two d...
The Canadian arm of KPMG has added cryptoassets Bitcoin and Etherium to its corporate treasury, which marks the professional services firm’s initial direct investment in the digital asset and reflects its commitment to emerging technology. “This investment reflects our belief that institutional adoption of cryptoassets and blockchain technology ...
Milford McGuirt, formerly a managing partner of KPMG, has been appointed to the board of directors at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) in a move slated to take effect Thursday. He will serve on the audit and nominating and corporate governance committees of SAIC, the company said Tuesday. McGuirt has more than four decades...
KPMG’s federal advisory practice has named 25-year FBI veteran Maria Voreh as a director and appointed Pamela Powers, Michael Westphal and Chad Poppell to managing director positions. All four public service veterans will aim to help KPMG’s government clients transform business processes, the professional services firm said. Voreh led th...
A new KPMG report has found that 66 percent of government leaders said the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted them to advance their focus on digital modernization and 57 percent said they raised their IT budgets in response to the health crisis. "COVID-19 has magnified the need for government agencies to transform their models for d...
