FORUM 100

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November 19, 2026
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Honoring dynamic leaders who drive change and advancement with cutting edge ideas, inspired innovation, and for giving back to the larger Federal Consulting community.

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FORUM 100 AWARDS

Celebrating 11 Years of Excellence in Federal Consulting

Honoring the 100 Most Dynamic Leaders in Federal Contracting


The federal consulting community is built on vision, grit, and the relentless pursuit of better — and every year, FORUM shines a spotlight on the leaders who embody exactly that.


Now in its 11th year, the FORUM 100 Awards honor the 100 most dynamic leaders in Federal Consulting who are driving change and advancement through cutting-edge ideas, inspired innovation, and meaningful contributions to the broader public sector and consulting communities. These are the trailblazers who don't just keep up with the pace of change — they set it.

Winners are nominated by their Government and Industry peers, making the FORUM 100 one of the most credible and community-driven recognitions in the federal marketplace. Honorees are recognized across three major verticals: Federal Health, Civilian, and Defense.


The FORUM Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals who have demonstrated sustained excellence throughout their careers — leaders whose body of work has left an enduring mark on the federal consulting landscape. Like the FORUM 100, Lifetime Achievement recipients are nominated by their peers.


The FORUM Hall of Fame is the highest distinction FORUM bestows. Reserved for any nominee who has received three or more prior FORUM 100 or Lifetime Achievement designations, the Hall of Fame celebrates the lasting impact and lasting influence these extraordinary leaders have made on the Federal Consulting community — not just in a given year, but across a career.

The FORUM Foundation Awards honor the unsung heroes of government contracting—the administrative professionals, coordinators, support staff, and essential team members who are the backbone of every successful GovCon operation. These are the people who make everything possible: the proposal coordinators managing impossible deadlines, the executive assistants keeping leadership on track, the contract administrators ensuring compliance, the junior analysts doing critical research, the office managers holding operations together, and the countless professionals whose vital work rarely receives recognition.

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Celebrate the 2025 FORUM IT100 Winners

Adam Byer
iTech AG
Chief Delivery Officer
LinkedIn
Adina Pantella
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Executive Director, Passenger Systems Program Directorate
LinkedIn
Alexis Bonnell
OpenAI
AI Adoption and Deployment
LinkedIn
Alisa Bearfield
CGI Federal
Senior Vice President, Civilian Business Unit
LinkedIn
Andre Martin
Leidos
Business Systems Analysis
LinkedIn
Ankur Saini
US Department of Transportation
Chief Technology & Product Officer (FMCSA, PHMSA, MARAD)
LinkedIn
Anna Ehrhardt
GDIT
Vice President
LinkedIn
Atul Mathur
Credence Management Solutions
Principal and CIO
LinkedIn
Ben Kutil
Ad Hoc
Chief Technology Officer
LinkedIn
Bob Stevens
GitLab Inc.
Vice President, Americas and Public Sector
LinkedIn
Brian Bordelon
Nutanix
Chief Technologist
LinkedIn
Brian Funk
MetaPhase
Chief Technology Officer
LinkedIn
Brock Spradling
Red Hat
Sr. Director, Sales
LinkedIn
Carla Jones
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Director of the Division of Workforce Systems
LinkedIn
Chakravarthy "Chak" Susarla
DSSC
Senior Technical Director
LinkedIn
Chris Townsend
Elastic
Global Vice President, Public Sector
LinkedIn
Christa Zimmerman
Bixal
Director, Health Portfolio
LinkedIn
Christopher Wood
Ad Hoc
Chief Growth Officer
LinkedIn
Col. Nathaniel Huston
U.S. Central Command
Deputy Chief Technology and Data Officer
LinkedIn
Dan Janes
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Program Lead
LinkedIn
Danielle Applegate
CGI Federal
Vice President, Veterans Affairs
LinkedIn
Davyd Chung
Digital Infuzion
Chief Growth Officer
LinkedIn
Dawn Wierzbicki
Signature Performance
Chief Federal Business Development Officer
LinkedIn
Denise Rainey
Rainmakers Strategic Solutions
President & CEO
LinkedIn
Diana Logreira
NASA
Mission Directorate Lead Web Program Manager
LinkedIn
Domenique Malone
Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)
Information Technology Manager
LinkedIn
Dorothy Callahan
SoftDev Incorporated
BD/Strategic Partner Liaison
LinkedIn
Dr. Jessica Resig
Applied Research Institute
Vice President of Solutions Innovation
LinkedIn
Dr. Justin Ubert
DOT/FTA
Chief, Cybersecurity & Operations
LinkedIn
Dr. Rajan Natarajan
Global Alliant Inc.
President and CEO
LinkedIn
Dr. Roshni Ghosh
RGP Federal
Chief Growth Officer
LinkedIn
Dr. Shane Mcnamee
Appian
Global Health Industry Lead
LinkedIn
Dr. Thomas Chon
Tetra Fields LLC
CEO
LinkedIn
Elad Schulman
Lasso Security
CEO & Co Founder
LinkedIn
Eric Gonzales
Ad Hoc, LLC
Senior Director, Client Growth & Strategy
LinkedIn
Eric Strauss
Connected Logistics/Canopy Health
Chief Growth Officer
LinkedIn
Greg Clifton
Intel Corporation
General Manager
LinkedIn
JW Funkhouser
GDIT
Senior Director
LinkedIn
James Perkins
Defense Healthcare Management Systems
Deputy, Program Executive Office (PEO)
LinkedIn
James “Frank” Hudson, Jr.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology
LinkedIn
Jason Adolf
Appian
VP, Global Public Sector
LinkedIn
Jason Preisser
Applied Research Institute
Senior Vice President, Federal Programs
LinkedIn
Jeremy Walsh
FDA
Chief AI Officer
LinkedIn
Jessica Bernhardt
Food and Drug Administration
Program Manager
LinkedIn
Jill Wallace
GDIT
Program Director
LinkedIn
Johann Dettweiler
stackArmor, a Tyto Athene company
CISO
LinkedIn
Joseph Brennan
Leidos
Reporting and Analytics Manager
LinkedIn
Karen Brazell, DSL
Department of Veteran Affairs
Senior Advisor to the Secretary
LinkedIn
Karlene Stecchi
Tantus Technologies, Inc.
Executive Vice President
LinkedIn
Katie Arrington
Department of Defense
Acting Chief Information Officer
LinkedIn
Keith Gibson
Runyara
Founder/CEO
LinkedIn
Kelli Furrer
Slingshot Aerospace
Chief Revenue Officer/Chief Marketing Officer
LinkedIn
Kelly Olson
Adobe
General Manager, Public Sector
LinkedIn
Kevin Duvall
Department of Health and Human Services
Deputy Chief Information Officer
LinkedIn
LTC Bryan Cercy
U.S. Central Command
Director of Operations for the Chief Technology Officer
LinkedIn
Lance D. Jenkinson
U.S. Department of War
Chief, Training, Compliance, and Information Division (DTMO)
LinkedIn
Larry Vandergrift
Defense Health Agency Occupational Environmental Health, Surveillance, and Readiness
ILER Project Controller
LinkedIn
Lee Ann Crochunis
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS)
Deputy CIO, and OIT Director
LinkedIn
Madhu Jegarnathan
Tria Federal
Vice President, Value Based Care Portfolio
LinkedIn
Mani Allu
Centennial Technologies
CEO and Founder
LinkedIn
Mariela Unangst
Progsit LLC
VP Business Development and Capture
LinkedIn
Mary Affeldt
mPower, Inc.
CEO
LinkedIn
Meera Shah
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Health Specialist
LinkedIn
Melissa McGriff
ServiceNow
VP Federal
LinkedIn
Michael Wittman
CGI Federal
Vice President, Health and Social Services
LinkedIn
Mitch Thornbrugh
The Indian Health Service
CIO
LinkedIn
Molly Maass
US Customs and Border Protection
Director, Land Border Integration
LinkedIn
Murali Mallina
Tria Federal
Chief Technology Officer
LinkedIn
Ned Blackburn
Centennial Technologies, Inc
Senior Director of Growth and Client Success
LinkedIn
Nick Weber
National Institutes of Health Center for Information Technology
Acting Director, Office of Scientific Computing Services
LinkedIn
Nicolas Chaillan
Ask Sage
CEO and Founder
LinkedIn
Nikole Farmer
Concept Plus
Program Manager
LinkedIn
Omer Khan
Peraton
Vice President of Benefits, Claims and Integrity Solutions
LinkedIn
Patrick Newbold
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare
Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology
LinkedIn
Prasad Bhalerao
Publicis Sapient
Group Vice President
LinkedIn
Quentin McCoy
United States Health and Human Services
Head of Contracting Activity
LinkedIn
Ratima Kataria
ICF
VP Federal Health
LinkedIn
Rhonda Brown-Massey
Peraton
Program Director, Space Communications Programs
LinkedIn
Richard Jacik
American Institutes for Research
Chief Technology Officer
LinkedIn
Robert Cunningham
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive Director, Enterprise Command Operations
LinkedIn
Sara Thomas
AWL Strategies, LLC
CEO
LinkedIn
Sarah Jester
GDIT
Sr. Program Director
LinkedIn
Siva Sivaraj
ITC Federal, LLC
Vice President of Technology and Innovation
LinkedIn
Sophie Myers
SAIC
CX Leader
LinkedIn
Spencer Burgos
Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology
Program Analyst
LinkedIn
Steve Irish
Peraton
VP & GM - Defense Enterprise and Health Solutions
LinkedIn
Sumesh Sundareswaran
GDIT
Vice President
LinkedIn
Sunitha Ravi
Centennial Technologies Inc.
VP - Operations and Delivery
LinkedIn
Tarik Reyes
Peraton Corporation
President, Defense Mission and Health Solutions
LinkedIn
Tauryn Williford
IVA'AL Solutions LLC
Chief Executive Officer
LinkedIn
Tim McCutcheon
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health System Management and Operations Director, OIT PDS Health Services Portfolio
LinkedIn
Todd Van Haaren
PingWind
Sr. Director of Customer Engagement
LinkedIn
Traci Walker
Digital Services Coalition
Executive Director
LinkedIn
Venkat Kondapolu
HHS/Administration for Children & Families
Director
LinkedIn
Vennard Wright
PerVista AI
CEO
LinkedIn
Vijay Veerappan
Global Alliant Inc.
Chief Technology Officer
LinkedIn
Wade Zarriello
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Acting Director, Infrastructure & User Services Group
LinkedIn
Zhuchun "Emily" Qiu
Dept of Veterans Affairs
Deputy Portfolio Director
LinkedIn

Tetra Fields (SDVOSB) modernizes digital health by uniting AI, Health IT, data science, and research to transform healthcare data management and interoperability. As 2024 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs AI Tech Challenge Finalist, we deliver mission-driven solutions that advance federal health insight and data exchange.

Our federally approved advanced AI solution for semantic harmonization transforms diverse healthcare data into FHIR, enabling seamless, standards-based interoperability. In partnership with CMS OHEI and HIIG, we help craft the 2025–2035 Interoperability Roadmap, shaping the next decade of national digital health.

Our analytics and quality measurement work at CMS informs how over 10% of U.S. GDP is spent, underscoring our impact on system-wide healthcare transformation.

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Announcing the FORUM IT100 2025 Hall of Fame Winners

Andrew Collins
Peraton
Sr. Business Development Executive
David Affeldt
NeoMatrix LLC
CEO
Jango Unwalla
Unissant Inc.
Chief Knowledge Officer
Joan Bishop
QualX, LLC
Chief Growth Officer
Maria Gaboury
Intersystems Corporation
Strategic Parternships Executive
Melinda Pitchford
Connected Logistics
Chief Strategy Officer
Michael Kennedy
SoftDev Incorporated
Chief Delivery Officer
Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry
U.S. FDA
Former CTO
Nate Swab
Sentar
Senior Director, DoD Programs

Announcing the FORUM IT100 2025 Lifetime Award Winners

Vennard Wright
PerVista AI
CEO
Eddie Pool
Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology

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Keynote Speaker

We are thrilled that Kimberly Brandt  ,Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is delivering the keynote address at the 2026 Disruptive Tech Summit and Awards Ceremony on March 17th!

With her extraordinary leadership overseeing CMS's $1.4 trillion budget and her pivotal role in developing groundbreaking interoperability regulations, Kim brings unparalleled insight into how technology is transforming healthcare delivery and government operations.

Her distinguished career spans senior executive positions across government and private sector leadership, including her tenure as Principal Deputy Administrator for Policy and Operations during the first Trump Administration, Chief Oversight Counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and strategic advisor to healthcare private equity firms.

Kim's unique perspective on innovation, regulatory reform, and the intersection of policy and technology makes her the perfect voice to inspire and challenge our community of disruptive thinkers and leaders. This is a keynote you won't want to miss!

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