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Alan Chvotkin

Executive Vice President & Counsel

Alan L. Chvotkin is the executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council (PSC), the principal national trade association of the government technology and professional services industry, where he is responsible for the association’s legislative and regulatory policy activity. He has been at PSC since 2001.

Prior to joining PSC, he was a vice president of AT&T Government Services where he was responsible for managing key AT&T programs and opportunities. From 1986 to 1995, he was corporate director of government relations and senior counsel at Sundstrand Corporation. Chvotkin also has 13 years of experience as a professional staff member on Capitol Hill, serving as a staff member on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and later on the Senate Budget Committee. He became counsel and staff director to the Senate Small Business Committee and then counsel to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Chvotkin is a member of the American, Supreme Court and District of Columbia Bar Associations and a fellow of the National Contract Management Association, where he serves on its national board of advisors. He is also a founding member and continuing leader of the federal contracting industry’s Acquisition Reform Working Group, which was established in 1993. He also co-chairs the operating committee of the Council of Defense and Space Industries Association. For his service to the contracting community, he has received the prestigious Fed 100 Award three times.

He has a law degree from American University’s Washington College of Law and a master’s in public administration and a bachelor’s in political science, both from American University.
Opinion

Remembering Jack Brooks

PSC's Alan Chvotkin recalls Congressman Jack Brooks and how he learned that it was better to work with and not against the smart but tough congressman.