This Chevy Chase investment company just finished raising $250 million for its third fund. Its a big one: $500 million. ABS Capital Managing Partner Michael Avon named to Washingtonian Magazine 2022 Tech Titans List. Their portfolio has a distinctively local flavor, having backed Avizia, Interfolio, Upskill, and UrbanStems. It has put money into more than 200 companies since 2004investments that helped attract $800 million in additional private equity. Based in Reston, Young is tasked with expanding the venture firm throughout the US. According to a study by TechAmerica, Virginia has the nations highest percentage of tech workers; Maryland is fifth, DC sixth. He was director of legislative affairs for the National Security Council during the Obama administration. This cluster of innovation exists even though Washington has none of the strong engineering universities, such as MIT or Stanford, that have been instrumental in the development of a vibrant tech communities elsewhere. Soon after she was brought on, Twitter began label-ing many of Presi-dent Trumps tweets as misleadingthen banned him. Executive chairman, Grotech Ventures. The handoff, which was planned, put Taicletan Air Force pilot who served in the Gulf War and helmed the real-estate-investment trust American Tower since 2003in the top spot. Bob Stolle More than 30 people became Tech Titans for the first time this year; the overall list now numbers more than 160. Founder and managing partner, Rethink Impact. Dickman was named BlackBerrys first-ever government-affairs officer in Washington last March. Chairman and CEO (Pardue) and executive vice president (Parker), Athenium Analytics. The eight-year-old firm, backed by some of the regions top dealmakers, looks to revolutionize entertainment through devices such as the Loopnicknamed the bagela new motion-sensitive remote control. Their portfolio has a distinctively local flavor, having backed Avizia, Interfolio, Upskill, and UrbanStems. Through more than 20 tech companies, including brand names such as Vonage, Barris has returned lots of value to his investors. ** Please note that this item is only available for tech professionals chosen by Washingtonian for inclusion in our online Tech Titans list. Founders and managing partners, NextGen Venture Partners. Banerjee was one of the founding employees at MicroStrategy. Everyone, it seems, is going to own a streaming network soon. It also may be a direct credit to Coleman, who joined the company in 2013 after serving as director of cybersecurity at Cisco Systems. As of this summer, though, Endgame planned to maintain its Arlington office and be led by Fick, a former Marine Corps infantry officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and wrote a book titled One Bullet Away. Secretary of Technology under Virginia governor Mark Warner, Newstrom spent 28 years at EDS before heading Lee, which focuses on tech infrastructure. Even if you get most of your news from Russian online trolls, you probably know that the worlds leading social network has had a rough year. As of this summer, the company had raised $12 million. The focus of this investment firm in recent months has been on finding companies that work in national-security techa boom industry even before SolarWinds. Thats twice the size of Googles DC operations. Krone runs one of the biggest technology-and-science contractors in the defense industry, a $10-billion company headquartered in Reston that now has 31,000 employees. Rasowsky, whose day job is director of marketing at the energy technology company Sparkfund, also created and leads the Women in Tech Campaign, an effort to connect women who work at tech companies and to help companies that want to diversify their workforces. Washingtons tech industry hasnt been immune to the pandemic. DARPA doles out much of that money through investments in high-risk high-tech with potential military applications. He was director of legislative affairs for the National Security Council during the Obama administration. Donations to the foundation: Support Tech Titans initiatives to build a robust STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workforce pipeline. Hunch Analyticss current focus is its subsidiary CareJourney. The congressional hearing starring the country's tech titans began as so many video conferences have in the midst of a pandemic, with the chief executives of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple . Those joins edge centers opened in 2018 in a host of North American and South American cities, including Miami, Atlanta, Toronto, and Buenos Aires. Earlier this year, when this 15-year-old IT-services firm looked at moving its headquarters to Georgia to accommodate a big expansion, the state of Virginia stepped in with incentives to keep it in Crystal City, albeit in bigger, better digs. Myers also runs her own company, the Most, which makes tools for styling textured hair. Andrew Florance Stolle took over as CEO in September at this nonprofit tech accelerator backed by the state of Virginia. Today the company he leads is a major contractor helping the Defense Department and US intelligence agencies find ways to move data to the cloud securely. Thats the most ever and a clear sign of techs growing significance in our region. With its balance sheet looking healthier in early 2021, DXC received an unsolicited buyout offer of $10 billion from a French IT company. Theyre creating more opportunities for women in tech, putting millions of dollars into emerging companies in the Mid-Atlantic, overseeing new federal agencies guarding the nations cybernetworks, building robotic fighter jets, renting scooters by the hour, and launching satellites. Michael J. Saylor The brand-new directorate is scheduled to become operational on October 1 of this year. James Taiclet Tech Titans 2019: Washington's Top Tech Leaders https://www.washingtonian.com Tech Titans is a forum that connects the regional technology community to collaborate, share and inspire creative thinking that fuels tomorrow's innovations. Coleman Mehta Last year, Walker announced it would spend more than $2 billion to develop artificial-intelligence applications that can be used across the DoD. Senior director, US policy, Palo Alto Networks. Entrepreneurial companies are Kaplans specialty. Elberfeld has two roles at the company. The Tech Titan awards honor the top . While gossip-column readers might be excused for thinking that Leonsiss first name is Billionaire, its hard to overstate his role in the local tech community as a longtime AOL exec, investor, adviser, talent scout, movie producer, philanthropist, and sports magnate. The combined firm, Nesco Holdings, went public on August 1, leaving Eina serial investor who has been involved in the founding or early stages of six companies that have grown to be valued at more than $1 billion (including XM Satellite Radio)likely to move on to yet another venture. James . Chris Darby and Simon Davidson Maybe an electrostatic discharge. Spicer has been executive director since 2002, when she left Columbia Capital to join the group. That includes, earlier this year, part of a $14-million investment Griffin helped put together in Homesnap, a Bethesda firm that makes a real-estate database and app. Formerly CEO of Cybertrustdeemed the regions fastest-growing company in 2006 by the Washington Business JournalBecker is now with a company focused on access-control software in an era of increased government and regulatory oversight. Video produced by Alejandro Salinas; photos by Matthew Worden. The tech consulting firm, with a strong green focus, has thrived under Kesavans long tenure. Paladin is a big cybersecurity backer that often invests locally. Investment heavyweights New Enterprise Associates, Mark Cuban, Revolution, and Jerry Yang have all backed 26-year-old Hwangs FiscalNote, now the top player in legal analytics, offering data that helps customers track and predict the potential impact of new regulations and legislation. Pies platform helps small businesses find discounted rates on workers comp and other types of insurance. Crabtree and Sellers are both veteransCrabtree is a West Point grad who was a combat rifle-platoon leader in Afghanistan, Sellers an Air Force Academy valedictorian who served in the Iraq war. Of course a company controlled by a member of the family that once owned the Washington Post would have media holdings including Slate and Foreign Policy, but Grahams company also owns the cybersecurity-education outfit CyberVista and the digital-marketing firm SocialCode. Last August, he joined Amazon, where his team works with satellite networks, rocket-launch operations, and space-exploration missions. Fast Company reported in July that Humphries told employees he would suspend making donations out of an employee-funded political-action committee and would restructure the fund apparently in reaction to employee anger over how the money was being spent. Gibson is one of many LivingSocial alums still working in Washington, while Mindus has been in investing most of his career. In 2007, Chia cofounder of Blackboardlaunched WeddingWire, an online marketplace that pairs grooms- and brides-to-be with wedding vendors. Daniel Yates, founder and CEO, Positive Energy. The legislation passed the House in April along partisan lines. Columbia, which has invested in several local tech firms, was part of a $60-million funding round that will help create a ground-and-satellite 5G network for the Tysons satellite company Omnispace, whose CEO, Ram Viswanathan, is a new Tech Titan this year. Photograph by Matthew Worden. Anne Neuberger George Newstrom, president and COO, Lee Technologies. That previous business accelerator helped 527 minority entrepreneurs get their companies under way. Born with ink in his veins, Graham knew his way around digital even before his family sold the Washington Post. The nonprofit CDT, whose mission is to advance our digital rights, has been urging lawmakers to roll back the FCCs elimination of net-neutrality rules installed during the Obama administration. It became the megafirm it is today after a division of Lockheed Martin was spun off and merged with Leidos in 2016. After General Dynamics completed a nearly $10-billion acquisition of the Falls Church IT-services firm CSRA in April, it merged the companys operations into its General Dynamics Information Technology division, which Gilliland had taken over in 2017. Joe Trippi, principal, Trippi and Associates. It gives retailers a way to make money off of the millions of things retail customers either didnt buy or did buy but later returned. Walshs career has spanned media, tech, and politics. Some call the latter a robotic wingman. Commercial applications for those technologies seem likely. Optoro cashed in another investment round worth $75 million last year, bringing the total invested in the company to a reported $244 million. What was your AOL screen name? The longtime Intel director was FCC chairman under President Bill Clintonand the first at the commission to have a computer at his desk. That award came on the heels of a late-2018 grant of $775,000 from TD Bank. The CIA, which develops new tech for monitoring how other countries are monitoring the US, is engaged in about 140 different AI projects. Panciocco, who had headed the Beltsville IT contractor ASRC Federal, announced further growth through acquisition in February when IntelliBridge bought the Fairfax IT-services firm Alethix. Randy Brouckman and Edmund Wilson Raul Fernandez, chairman and CEO, ObjectVideo. 63-35 (L) FTPA vs. Sidwell Friends. The AOL cofounder who heads big-money investor Revolution has been active during the pan-demic in looking for ways to invest in foodtechtech solutions to food shortages. Homesnap, which Mazur joined in 2017, has raised more than $30 million total. Headquartered in McLean with more than 10,000 employees, SAICs defense teamheaded by Alderson since 2005provides critical support to many divisions of the military and government. Even the worlds largest satellite services provider, which Intelsat is, can have serious business problems from the smallest of things. The firm, with offices in downtown DC (which McKenzie runs) and Sarasota, Florida, has focused many of its recent investments on firms that are developing 5G technology to work in underserved areaswhich could mean places where traditional internet isnt available or where the expense of traditional internet is prohibitive to the local population. CTA is led by Daniel, who was a cybersecurity coordinator for the White House during President Obamas second term. A former principal at Columbia Capital, Avon now runs ICX, which offers a platform that can be used by digital video creators, including big consumer brands and social-media stars, to more closely monitor and understand their audience. Twitter declined to comment. He also runs an investment firm, Alsop Louie Partners, and was a member of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which in March published a 752-page report critical of US investments in AI. Brian Ballard and Jeff Jenkins President (ron) and Managing Partner (Cyndi), Gula Tech Adventures. Gene Riechers, general partner, Valhalla Partners. Greene, a longtime head of federal policy for Symantec, took over as director of this public/private partnership in February 2020. In February 2020, it closed on its sixth investment fund, this one worth $350 million. >>Photographs from Washingtonian's Tech Titans party. Anything that the Chamber, an enormous lobbying group, has to say on cybersecurity policy is likely to be heard at the White House. She worked on intellectual-property issues for the United States trade representative under President George W. Bush and on similar issues for President Obamas White House. Sonatype, which helps distribute secure open-source software to developers, saw sales double in the first quarter of this year. That will fund a big expansion at the Herndon headquarters, where it offers cyberattack-detection-and-response services. Our guide to the most important and innovative people in Washington's digital economy. In July, Eins latest investment vehicle, Capitol Investment Corp. IV, merged with a company called Nesco Holdings I. Nesco rents pricey equipment to electric and telecom companies. The 2022 Tech Titans list featured "the 225 most innovative and important people in DC's tech scene right now", which included a vibrant mix of entrepreneurs, investors, lobbyists, early-stage CEOs, non-profit leaders, government officials, and big business movers and shakers. Class has already raised more than $40 million. The megadefense contractors chief led the acquisition of CSRA in 2018, prompting howls from some investors who thought a big investment in an information-technology company was the wrong move. 2022 Tech Titans The 225 most innovative and important people in DC's tech scene right now. This cutting-edge online advocacy firm and such Kapin initiatives as the Women Who Tech conference have helped put her in the center of the tech community. Chasen has steered the rise of Blackboardan education-services provider that has become one of the areas leading public companiesfrom the start. From 1981 to 1985, he was national director of the Democratic National Committee. Carolyn Parent Kathy Warden The Hill Top Lobbyist (Dec. 2021). A longtime presence in the Washington tech community and a former University of Maryland professor, Kim took over the storied Bell Labs, now part of Alcatel-Lucent, in 2005. Lagardere's travel retail business posted revenue of EUR1.15 billion, up 53.8% like-for-like. The company is a contractor that provides a variety of technology, including information technology and communications systems, to the Department of Defense and US intelligence agencies. The DC-based development firmwhose name, Upender says, is a combination of interactive and ideahas been on the cutting edge of developing applications for social-media tools. Deputy director (Natarajan) and executive assistant director (Goldstein), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security. The company markets audience-intelligence software to major brandseverything from Heineken to GEICOhelping them better identify, understand, and target their customers on social media. This month's issue of Washingtonian magazine makes the observation that: " [T]hough Washington has none of the strong engineering universities, such as MIT or Stanford, that have been instrumental in the development of a vibrant tech communities elsewhere," the DC-metro area thrives with top notch tech talent in business and politics. The Washington Times @WashTimes. Watch Live High School Sports : https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https://bit.ly/3gvuHOx Washington The Paul Public Charter International (Washington DC) . That led to the creation of a fourth division of the company, called Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. Reston - May 18, 2022 - The Washingtonian again named Cooley partner Mike Lincoln a Tech Titan as part of its biennial list of Washington, DC's top technology leaders. The company provides cloud-computing and IT services to the government and government contractors. Chief technology officer, District of Columbia. President and CEO, Center for Innovative Technology. Cyrus Krohn, former new-media director, Republican National Committee. Because those calls are coming from both sides of the aisle, Espinel may be well positioned to field them. But you have to figure it meant something special to Hall to have landed a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs. But Band, Cappaert, and the rest of the Contactually team all remained onboard. Matthew Eggers Tech Titans: The Entrepreneurs Reggie Aggarwal Founder and CEO, Cvent Aggarwal started this event-management software company with his own money and a staff of two back in 1999. A consortium of investor groups called ClearSky acquired Altamira in July. Meanwhile, Humphries is dealing both with government regulators and internal dissent. Tom Wheeler, managing director, Core Capital. In that case, Warner and Kaine may reach into the bag of parliamentary tricks to find another way to block the FCCs removal of those Obama-era rules. The Software Alliance advocates for companies such as Adobe, Intel, Apple, and Symantec. Bhatias operationwhich he became head of in Septemberis a big one. The platform runs on smart glasses and other wearable devices to give workers instant, viewable access to datasuch as easily searchable, digital technical manualsthat can boost their productivity. Foster an innovative North Texas ecosystem of established and emerging tech businesses, entrepreneurs, universities, investors and local governments. The data collected by the satellites and analyzed by engineers on the ground can help government clients, shipping companies, and military chiefs find and track specific vehicles or ships anywhere in the world, as well as pinpoint (a.k.a. The business is taking off, as is Declets influence. Snap, which runs the Snapchat app, hired Stout, a James Madison graduate, in 2017 just months before it debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Daniel was a cybersecurity coordinator on the National Security Council during the Obama administration before joining CTA, a trade group that shares intelligence on malware and other cyberthreats. So in a sense, Manzi and Brody, backed by a $67-million investment fund dedicated solely to their company, are making robotic junior executives. A former CEO of Accenture Federal Services, Kapoor left her lead position at AT&Ts $15-billion Global Public Sector division last year to found her own firm. In 2020, it closed a new $308-million fund. Frederick specializes in introducing his VC-backed firms to those in government who have needs to fill and money to spend. After completing a huge, $79-million funding round this July, this five-year-old company changed its name from Fractal Industries to Qomplx and promised to boost its staff well above the 100 people now at work in Reston. Chairman and CEO, Opus8; founder, Connectpreneur. Miller is a former senior adviser to NASA. Like Project 500, 1863 Ventures is aimed at helping new majority businesses in the region, but its broader goal is far loftier: to create $100 billion of new wealth for new-majority entrepreneurs by helping them found, fund, and successfully expand their companies. 2022 DCSAA Boys Basketball State Tournament (DC) Class AA Tournament. But its stock has still cascaded down as the market reacted negatively to GTTs $2.3-billion cash buyout last year of the European cloud networker Interoute. It was sold to Raytheon in 2014 for $427 million. Policymakers on the Hill and elsewhere often rely on Greene to share industry insights. Errol Arkilic, industrial-innovation program director, National Science Foundation. While Michael Saylor is the bigger name at this company, Bansal might be better known overall because of his eponymous foundations support of NPR programming. Joanna Pineda, founder and CEO, Matrix Group International. Perhaps the only Washington tech exec with his own air forcethe company has three satellites and two mapping aircraftOConnell has an exclusive deal to provide satellite images to Google as well as to government agencies such as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Ellen Miller. Already the largest venture firm in the US dedicated to investing in female tech entrepreneurs, Rethink added a new $182-million fund in July. Cofounder and CEO, Pie Insurance. Balistreri is an active member of the board at Mindshare, a yearlong training-and-mentoring program that pairs CEOs of new companies with executives at more established firms. CEO and Cofounder, Socially Determined. But in October 2018 he accepted a two-year appointment that slashed acting from his title. His idea: Bring on a Dr. Fauci for cybersecurity. The feds are also helping drive what may be the fastest-growing subcategory of tech herecybersecurity. Cell towers in space? Whats more, Washington firms have drawn the attention of national funds not based here. Aggarwal started this event-management software company with his own money and a staff of two back in 1999. Dan Mindus and Brett Gibson Their firm has backed Cava, Optoro, Framebridge, and UrbanStemswhose CEOs are all fellow tech titansas well as the nutrition-bar maker Kind. Companies and celebrities hired the firm to better control search results for their own names or for brand names. On 3/2, the Friendship Tech Prep Academy varsity basketball team lost their neutral playoff game against Sidwell Friends (Washington, DC) by a score of 63-35. In March, it rolled out Homesnap Stories, a feature akin to Instagram Stories, in which real-estate agents can quickly create short videos about homes listed for sale. His wife, Cyndi, ran support and sales operations at Tenable, which went public in 2018.

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