  Kevin Laudano
Managing Director, Accenture Global Defense industry group
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Kevin Laudano is the global managing director of Accenture's Defense industry group. He oversees Accenture's international Defense presence with a focus on Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Australia and Singapore. Mr. Laudano has spent the last 20 years dedicated to delivering large-scale commercial and government transformation programs focused on financials, supply chain, integration/interoperability and IT for some of Accenture's largest clients.   John Goodman
Managing Director, US Defense industry group
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John Goodman, managing director of Accenture's US Defense industry group, is responsible for Accenture’s overall support to the Department of Defense. Previously, Mr. Goodman worked with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, defense agencies and combatant commands to improve readiness and operational performance. He also was the Management Consulting growth platform lead for Accenture's Public Service operating group, with responsibility for the sales and delivery of Accenture's management consulting services to public service organizations around the world. Prior to joining Accenture in 1998, Mr. Goodman was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Industrial Affairs & Installations), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Senior Director on the staff of the National Economic Council in the White House and an associate professor at the Harvard Business School.  Eric S. Stange
Senior Executive
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Eric S. Stange is a senior executive in Accenture's Defense industry group and also the president and CEO of Accenture National Security Services. During Mr. Stange's distinguished career at Accenture, he led the Defense industry group for more than nine years and contributed to several successful pursuits including the Defense Logistics Agency Business Systems Modernization contract, a six-year, $850-million logistics business transformation assignment, which became fully operational in December 2006. In addition to his CEO responsibilities, Mr. Stange is personally engaged in the pursuit and capture of major defense programs including GCSS Air Force, TRANSCOM AT-21 and DEAMS II. Mr. Stange has a broad range of experience serving the U.S. Department of Defense in a variety of business areas, with specific emphasis in logistics and supply chains as well as enterprise transformation. Mr. Stange joined Accenture in 1980. Prior to moving to Accenture's Defense industry group in 1991, he spent the first half of his career at Accenture working for clients in a number of industries, including retail, oil and gas, utilities, health care and manufacturing.  Joe Chenelle
Senior Executive
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Joe Chenelle is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group. Mr. Chenelle brings more than 16 years of systems integration and consulting expertise with 12+ years focused on global, complex SAP implementations. Mr. Chenelle is currently operating as the account senior executive for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) where he has spent the last six years implementing transformational change programs for the largest combat support agency in the Department of Defense. Mr. Chenelle also serves as the SAP global lead for the Public Service operating group, focusing on the strategic Accenture/SAP alliance and differentiating services. Prior to DLA, Mr. Chenelle was the first Accenture SAP Outsourcing client program manager and spent three years on a heavy crude refinery as an IS-OIL program manager. Mr. Chenelle has also lived and worked in Europe where he developed Accenture’s SAP Technology Delivery service line within the Accenture European Solution Center Network. Mr. Chenelle has worked with some of the world’s largest companies and public service entities including DLA, Exxon, Volkswagen and Alcatel. Mr. Chenelle brings varied industry experience from his work with clients in public service, retail, communications, high tech, chemicals and energy. Mr. Chenelle earned a bachelor of science degree from Case Western Reserve University with dual majors in management information decisions systems and finance.  Vice Admiral Keith W. Lippert, USN (Retired)
Senior Executive
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U.S. Navy Vice Admiral (Retired) Keith Lippert began working as chief strategy officer for the Accenture Defense industry group in October 2006. His last tour on active duty was as the 14th director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Vice Admiral Lippert served in this capacity from July 2001 to July 2006, the longest-serving director in DLA’s history. Prior to DLA, Vice Admiral Lippert was the commander, Naval Supply Systems Command, and 41st chief of supply corps from August 1999 to July 2001. He also served as vice commander, Naval Supply Systems Command. He previously was the deputy commander for financial management/comptroller at the Naval Supply Systems Command where he had budget responsibility for a worldwide, multibillion-dollar supply system. While serving as comptroller, he was also responsible for the Navy’s successful Inventory Reduction Program. Vice Admiral Lippert also served as the commander, Defense General Supply Center, Richmond, Virginia. In August 1995, he became the first commander of the Naval Inventory Control Point. Vice Admiral Lippert earned his commission through the regular Navy ROTC Program, graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1968. Additionally, he holds master’s degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School in management and in operations research (with distinction). He also attended the Senior Executive Program in national and international security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  William Loftus
Senior Executive
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Bill Loftus is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group, and serves as a managing director of the mission services group. He has 20 years of experience in the creation, executive management and operations of advanced software solution providers and is a nationally recognized author, technologist and entrepreneur. In 2001 he cofounded Gestalt, LLC, a leading provider of collaborative technology for governments and Fortune 500 customers. Mr. Loftus served as president and CEO of Gestalt, which is now part of Accenture.   Robert McPherson
Senior Executive
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Rob McPherson is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group and specializes in strategic planning and the transformation of large, complex organizations in both the commercial and government sectors. After leading a major business transformation engagement for a large automotive company, Mr. McPherson transferred into Accenture’s Public Service operating group in 2002 and was given responsibility for beginning the U.S. Department of the Navy account. Since that time, Mr. McPherson and his team have assisted senior Navy leaders with business strategic planning, identifying necessary improvements to key capabilities, redesigning processes, organizations and technology as necessary to improve the performance of those capabilities, and designing and implementing enterprise performance measurement. Organizations with ongoing projects include the Navy Installations Command, the Navy Enterprise Chief of Staff, Fleet Forces Command and the Naval Air Systems Command. Mr. McPherson also leads business capability development for the Accenture’s Defense industry group as a whole, including mission-related IT services and management consulting. He is a prior Naval officer and completed tours of duty on an operational attack submarine and within the Pentagon. 
Richard A. Ryan
Senior Executive
+1 215 982 0890 Rich Ryan is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group who has more than 28 years of service delivery operations experience for the U.S. Department of Defense and communications and high tech companies. As vice president of Air Force programs, Mr. Ryan is responsible for the Accenture Defense industry group business in the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Ryan was formerly vice president of Intelligence programs where he led Accenture's significant growth in the U.S. Intelligence Community. Mr. Ryan specializes in delivering to clients innovative and integrated solutions that leverage commercial best practices and focus on customer service. Before joining Accenture, Mr. Ryan worked with communications and high tech companies to reposition customer offerings to include both products and services. In his role as the executive director of service management for Bell Atlantic’s (now Verizon) computer services division, he originated and implemented new high-margin offerings that combined service process improvement consulting and service delivery outsourcing for Fortune 500 clients.  Linda Singh
Senior Executive
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Linda Singh is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group and has more than 17 years experience in implementing large systems. She manages a second career as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Maryland Army National Guard. Ms. Singh has more than 26 years of service with the U.S. Army. She is currently the client executive for the Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System (DIMHRS) project, which will be the first system to integrate all U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps human resources functions into a single modern, integrated system. Ms. Singh is also one of the lead client executives for the U.S. Army account. Her project management and implementation experience spans numerous federal and Department of Defense organizations including the Social Security Administration, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Army and National Guard Bureau. Ms. Singh recently returned from deployment in which she served as the deputy chief of staff, Logistics (G4) for the Multinational Task Force East in Kosovo. During the deployment, Ms. Singh managed 110 contracts totaling more than $300 million, conducted two forwarding operating base closures, assisted in the management of the task force budget totaling $30 million and worked with 15 other countries to coordinate support services. She also worked with representatives from the Defense Logistics Agency, AMC, Joint Contracting Agency, Army Contracting Agency and several others. 
Vince Vlasho
Senior Executive
+1 240 604 4275 Vince Vlasho is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group. Mr. Vlasho brings more than 27 years of defense experience to Accenture. As executive vice president, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps programs, he works closely with clients to deliver high-performance results on large-scale strategy, operations and IT and mission services programs. Since 2000, Mr. Vlasho served in a variety of leadership roles at the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, helping to deliver transformational outcomes across a number of domains. Mr. Vlasho graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was an active duty naval intelligence officer prior to joining Accenture.  James Wangler
Senior Executive
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James Wangler is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group and serves as senior executive vice president as part of mission services, supporting the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense (DoD) and leading the team in core business areas of Space and Communications Systems, Knowledge Management, Command and Control, Trusted Systems and Intelligence. Mr. Wangler was the president and CEO of MAXIM Systems Inc. prior to its acquisition by Accenture. Mr. Wangler brings a wide range of experience as a research engineer where he managed several responsibilities that included designing computers to developing and deploying numerous satellite communications systems, to developing and deploying several intelligence systems. He also has more than 35 years of experience in support of Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) programs for multiple DoD organizations and other agencies.  Eric Warden
Senior Executive
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Eric Warden is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group and has account management responsibility for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Since 1998, when he moved into Accenture’s federal government service line, Mr. Warden has brought innovation and commercial best practices to the U.S. Intelligence Community. Mr. Warden’s areas of focus have included application implementation and support; finance and performance management; human capital management; knowledge management and collaboration; and business process operations.  Lieutenant General Jack Woodward, USAF (Retired)
Senior Executive
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Lieutenant General USAF (Retired) John L. “Jack” Woodward is a senior executive within Accenture’s Defense industry group responsible for national security business development. Lt. Gen. Woodward works with the Department of Defense, intelligence arena and portions of the Department of Homeland Security. Lt. Gen. Woodward spent 34 years in the U.S. Air Force (USAF), where he served in key line, staff and command positions predominantly in the command, control, communications and computer systems arena. Lt. Gen. Woodward retired from the USAF as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Information Systems as well as the Deputy CIO, Headquarters for the USAF. He has extensive experience with the joint warfighting arena and held the J6 Directorship for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1998 to 2000. Lt. Gen. Woodward has also served as the J6 for U.S. Space Command and NORAD and Chief of Communications and Information Management for Air Force Space Command, Air Combat Command and Air Mobility Command. Lt. Gen. Woodward has been with Accenture’s Defense industry group since April 2003 and is a lifetime member of AFCEA International. To Top |