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Startups, listen up. Since this month, Halcyon has a brand new CEO: Daniel Barker.
Based in Georgetown, Halcyon’s programming includes an incubator, intensive fellowships and an angel investment network. Barker will oversee the incubator’s new startup class, which supports early-stage companies building social impact products and businesses.
Barker joins the team while serving as Vice President for Partnership Research at Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. He also held positions at black rock and the Council on Foreign Relations and Earth Institute. But Halcyon noted that Barker first appeared on their radar as a management consultant at Deloitte, where he partnered with the incubator.
“For our team, it was great to see a candidate who not only knew how this program works, but who has worked directly with Halcyon Fellows in the past and kept an eye on us over the years to see where he could get hooked up”, co-founder and CEO Kate Goodall say it Washington Business Journal. “Dan’s work experience in different sectors and industries will be a fantastic resource for the Halcyon team and, more importantly, our colleagues.”
Halcyon has taken more than a few of our front-page hits over the past year, with Ryan Ross’ Departure, Dahna Goldstein intervene and the appointment of the new Chairman of the Board Marthe Metz.
HawkEye 360 Adds Data Director
Hawkeye 360, a geospatial analytics provider in Herndon, Virginia, announced Kate Zimmerman as the company’s first Chief Data Scientist.
Kate Zimmerman. (Photo via LinkedIn)
Zimmerman arrives at the role after a concert at Amazon Web Services running a machine learning division for intelligence and defense. At HawkEye, she will establish analytics strategies for the business and use AI for new capabilities from business data.
“I am excited to join the HawkEye 360 team as we seek to expand our RF data analytics capabilities into a suite of predictive analytics offerings,” Zimmerman said in a statement. “Having worked with RF data, payloads and ground systems throughout my career, I see this work as going back to basics. I look forward to using our deep analytics capabilities to enable our public, commercial and humanitarian sector clients to create a better world.
HawkEye got off to a good start in 2022, announcing an additional $5 million to its $145 million Series D earlier in the month.
Deloitte hires Kim Crider to lead AI
financial giant Deloitte added Kim Crider to lead its AI work for national security, the company announced in January.
Kim Crider. (Photo via LinkedIn)
Crider, a retired major general, comes to the role after a stint as director of innovation and technology for space force and Chief Data Officer for the Aviation. At Deloitte, she will lead the company’s Women in AI initiatives and conduct research on how to apply AI to national security, particularly applications of the technology in space.
“Kim is a proven leader with exceptional vision and a remarkable background in data analytics, AI and systems engineering,” said Heather Reilly, director of Deloitte, in a press release. “The invaluable knowledge and capabilities Kim brings to Deloitte will help our government clients accelerate their digital transformations and achieve their goals. »
Other DMV moves:
- Morning consultation, the DC-based business intelligence company, added Scott Brave as Chief Consumer Spending Economist and Lori Helwing as a financial market economist.
- IDEMIA National Security Solutions, a subsidiary of biometrics company IDEMIA, named Patrick Claney as CEO.
- Based on Reston smart waves, a govtech IT integrator promoted to President Tony Crescenzo to the role of CEO. Crescenzo will take over from the founder Jared Shepard.
- Following a $45 million Series A funding round, the Annapolis, Maryland security firm Netography appointed Jennifer Leggio as CMO and Joel Esler as Vice President of Threat Research.
- Based in Rockville, Maryland CloudBolt Software, a cloud automation and optimization company, named Brendan Dolan as chief financial officer.
- Tysons, Virginia Omnispace, a mobile communications network company, has made several additions to its sales team. Mahantesh Patil, Carmen Gonzalez and Shahrokh Khanzadeh Amiri are the latest additions to the business development team and Ramesh Pattanshetti has been added in client solutions.
- Following his ascension to unicorn, Expel, a detection and response company, added Jennifer Lawrence as Chief Revenue Officer and Kelly Fiedler as CMO.
- place of government, Reston-based systems integrator, named Simone Feldman as CEO. Feldman will replace the founder adam robinson.
- SafeGuard Cyber, a security company in Charlottesville, Va., added Chris Lehman as the new CEO.
- Leidos, a science and technology giant also in Reston, announced Terry Phillips as the new Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer.
- NetAbstration, a network security company in Chantilly, Virginia, has appointed Bob Vincent as Vice President of Engineering.
- let’s stay JumpSeat, developer of a software training platform, named Dean Edmundson as CEO instead of Nicolas DeBenedetto.
- Jon Rucker is the new Senior Vice President of Reston’s Army Business Unit Science Applications International Corp (SAIC). It will manage program delivery for approximately $1.2 billion in services each year.
- Fairfax, Virginia Digital Product Developer 3 global pillars announcement Jeff Speber as its new chief financial officer.
- Curbio, a real estate technology company in Potomac, Maryland, has appointed Pamela Cohn as COO.
- Cloudera Government Solutions, a cloud service provider in McLean, Va., announced Allen Sackadorf as Regional Vice President for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community Affairs.
- Glenn Miller was named the new President of Distributor Management Solutions for DemandBridge, a marketing automation company in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
- sbLiftOff, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm in Herndon, named Jordan Gerch as director of mergers and acquisitions.
- DC-based intelligence and risk management company Sayari Laboratories appointed John Lyons as Chief Revenue Officer.
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