Former Leidos exec Angela Heise joins Microsoft

Angela Heise, who left Leidos after more than two decades there in 2019, has signed on with the leadership team at Microsoft's worldwide public sector business.

Angela Heise, who spent over 20 years rising through the ranks at Lockheed Martin and then Leidos before leaving in 2019, has signed on as a corporate vice president with Microsoft's worldwide public sector business.

As CVP for defense and intelligence, Heise will work with U.S. cabinet agencies and other public sector organizations around the world. She’ll be focused on IT and cybersecurity, air traffic automation, energy and the environment, federal infrastructure and logistics, and transportation security.

Heise was running Leidos’ civilian business when she left the company in October 2019. Prior to that, she was responsible for several defense lines of business and commercial markets when she was with the former Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions sector that merged into Leidos in 2016. She first joined Lockheed in 1997 as a software engineer.

Her appointment was announced on LinkedIn by Julia Glidden, corporate vice president for Microsoft's worldwide public sector business.

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