3 CFO hires and more leadership moves across the market
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Ross Wilkers
Appointments focused on overall corporate strategy and leadership over a civilian portfolio also feature.
Amida Technology Solutions
Mark Forman has joined as chief strategy officer with the responsibility of integrating data management and artificial intelligence into the overall strategic plan.
Forman is known across the market as the U.S.' first administrator for E-Government and information technology, a role now called the federal chief information officer.
His private sector career includes leadership roles at IBM, KPMG, Science Applications International Corp., Unisys and several startups.
Battelle
Dr. Juan Alvarez has joined the nonprofit as executive vice president of laboratory operations following 19 years at the Idaho National Laboratory as its deputy director for management and operations.
Alvarez has served in that position at INL since 2005, when Battelle was first awarded the contract to manage the nuclear research lab.
Prior to INL, he served as director of facility operations for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Clarity Innovations
Heeun Gardner has joined as chief financial officer following the technology integrator's combination with another company like it, which they announced in June.
Clarity Innovations and Chameleon Consulting Group joined forces to create a larger company focused on defense and intelligence agencies. Clarity is backed by the private investment firm Capitol Meridian Partners.
Gardner is a former CFO from Vistant and before that was a senior finance executive at Salient CRGT and GovCIO, both before and after their combination in 2021.
Defcon AI
Vivek Upadhyaya has joined the two-year-old defense technology startup as chief financial officer following two years at Mercury Systems.
His most recent role at Mercury was CFO and vice president for its mission systems unit. Upadhyaya is also a former CFO for Leonardo Electronics US and CEO for IAI North America, among other roles in his almost 25-year career.
DEFCON AI is backed by Red Cell Partners, the technology incubator behind several other startups such as the defense tech specialist Epirus.
Peraton
Amy Rall has joined as president of Peraton's citizen security and public services sector, which houses a bulk of the company's work with civilian agencies.
The two-decade market veteran most recently led DMI's public sector team as its president and oversaw technology, engineering and mission solutions delivery efforts.
Rall career prior to DMI includes a one-year stint as chief executive at Linkware Group and other leadership roles before that at Science Applications International Corp., Unisys and QinetiQ's U.S. subsidiary.
Unissant
Robert "Bob" Deegan is reuniting with his former coworker Sumeet Shrivastava, who led Array as chief executive through its growth and sale to CGI Federal in 2021.
Deegan was Array's chief financial officer and now takes up the same role at Unissant, following its July hire of Shrivastava as CEO.
A 38-year industry veteran, Deegan is also a former CFO for Multimax and supported that company's sale and integration into Netco Government Services.