Accenture Air Force Team: Serving Air Force Needs

Richard A. Ryan
Executive Vice President, U.S. Air Force Account Lead
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As executive vice president of Air Force programs, Mr. Ryan is responsible for the Accenture Defense industry group business with the U.S. Air Force. He 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 innovative and integrated solutions that leverage commercial leading practices and focus on customer service. Before joining Accenture, he 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 Verizon computer services division, he originated and implemented new offerings that combined service process improvement consulting and service delivery outsourcing for Fortune 500 clients.

James Trowhill
Vice President
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Jim Trowhill is a vice president within Accenture’s Defense industry group and is currently leading business development efforts for the Air Force account. He has more than 22 years of experience in the design, development and implementation of large, complex information systems. He has provided technical, functional and program management direction for enterprise resource planning programs, service-oriented architecture implementations, decision support projects and the migration and shutdown of legacy systems. Mr. Trowhill has been on the board of directors of Accenture National Security Services since 2002. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Todd Cameron
Vice President
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Todd Cameron is a vice president within Accenture’s Federal government group. During his 18-year tenure at Accenture, he has held a variety of technical and management positions on large, complex business transformation and information technology programs.

Mr. Cameron offers broad experience and understanding of technologies that support various business functions including enterprise resource planning, business intelligence and custom object oriented architectures. He also brings a strong combination of business process capability and working knowledge of various technologies to help solve business challenges in the logistics/supply chain and finance domains.

Mr. Cameron is currently a regional board member of the Make-A-Wish foundation. He promotes local innovation through his involvement in TechColumbus. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Harvard University. He has been a member of the AFCEA Dayton Chapter since 1995 and the Association of Military Comptrollers since 2003.

Major General Lee Downer, USAF (Retired)
Vice President
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Major General Lee A. Downer is a decorated veteran of the United States Air Force. He is a vice president in the Accenture Defense industry group and serves as executive vice president of Mission Services, Command and Control. Maj. Gen. Downer brings military strategy and technology expertise to Accenture, where he focuses on the next generation of Air Force C2.

Previously, Maj. Gen. Downer served as federal government executive for Gestalt LLC, which is now part of Accenture. He also was vice president of Air Force programs at Cypress International. Maj. Gen. Downer held a variety of leadership positions in the U.S. Air Force.

In his last Air Force assignment, he was director of operations for Headquarters Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. There, he held responsibility for the operational planning, training and command and control functions to deploy and employ active and Air Force Reserve combat air forces, including more than 3,600 aircraft and 8,000 combat-ready crews worldwide.

Maj. Gen. Downer retired from the Air Force in 1997 after 33 years of active duty. He is a command pilot with more than 3,500 hours in fighter aircraft. He flew 154 combat missions in Vietnam and served as commander of Air Force Forces in Turkey during Operation Desert Storm.

William Loftus
Executive Vice President, U.S. Army Account Lead
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Bill Loftus is an executive vice president and U.S. Army account lead within Accenture Defense. Mr. Loftus also serves as the managing director of the mission services group with a key role in Accenture's command and control and modeling and simulation work with defense clients. He has 26 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. Mr. Loftus brings a strong mission, customer and warfighter focus to his work across the defense community.

Michael T. Parks
Vice President
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Michael Parks is a vice president and solution architect within the Accenture Defense industry group. He has 14 years of experience in designing, developing and implementing integrated solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and several commercial clients.

Mr. Parks previously was program manager for the U.S. Air Force's Theater Battle Management Core Systems business process reengineering and third-party Web enablement efforts. He also brings experience in bridging communications gaps between general officers, commanders and engineers.

Mr. Parks earned his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University.

Janet M. Roth
Vice President
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Janet Roth is an experienced program manager who serves as application outsourcing account delivery manager for various Accenture Defense industry group accounts, including the United States Air Force, Defense Enterprise Accounting Management System and the Defense Logistics Agency. In this role, she oversees client service management, delivery and financial performance related to contracts.

She has an extensive background in design, development, implementation and production support of large information systems for the Department of Defense and has experience in planning and managing CMMI Level 4 software development and support activities.

She holds a bachelor of science degree in management information systems from Drexel University and is a Project Management Professional certified by the Project Management Institute.

Peter Schnorr
Vice President
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Peter Schnorr is responsible for defense sales in support of the Accenture Defense industry group. In his current role as vice president, Air Force, he has been responsible for more than $110 million of sales in the past seven years.

Mr. Schnorr has more than 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and software company chief executive officer, and possesses a keen understanding of the technical challenges associated with starting and operating companies. He is an expert in technology strategy development and a seasoned advisor to management teams on how to create profitable growth.

Mr. Schnorr joined Accenture during the acquisition of Gestalt, a software and services company in 2007. At Gestalt, he was the Air Force account executive, responsible for sales and account management of a $75 million portfolio. Mr. Schnorr also established the U.S. Office of Anoto AB, a Swedish technology company. Before joining Anoto, he was CEO of Fitplay.com, an Internet portal software company. Mr. Schnorr was also a management strategy consultant with Marakon Associates, a management consulting company.

A former Naval Aviator and fighter pilot, Mr. Schnorr was also an instructor at the United States Naval Academy. He received the Navy Commendation Medal for outstanding leadership and the Air Medal with Valor for combat action in Iraq.

His educational achievements include an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was a Martin Trust Community Scholar, and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

Lieutenant General David J. Teal, USAF (Retired)
Vice President
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Lieutenant General David J. Teal, USAF (Ret.) is a vice president for the Accenture Defense industry group. He was part of the team that developed the Accenture Defense industry group in 1996—a unit that grew to generate $300 million in 2006.

Lt. Gen. Teal brings to Accenture expertise garnered over an extensive career in the United States military. He spent 31 years in the Army and Air Force, commanding units in Korea and Germany, planning for the Air Force in space, developing/fielding the fighters for the Air Force during the 1970s and 1980s, serving as the senior military assistant to the undersecretary of defense, acquisition, and serving as the vice commander, Air Force Systems Command. As vice commander, he initiated major reengineering of functional areas that included engineering, contracting, finance, accounting, logistics and personnel. He also played a key role in combining Air Force Systems Command and Logistics Command (more than 130,000 people) into Air Materiel Command in 1992.

Before joining Accenture, he operated war games for the Ballistic Missile Defense Office and had several clients for the Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he assisted in transitioning state-of-the-art technology to warfighters. He also helped Accenture at the Joint Logistics Systems Center to initiate three of the 10 Material Management Standard Systems.

Over his esteemed career, Lt. Gen. Teal held several high-level positions, such as deputy chief of staff for Air Force Systems Command; program director for Air Force Fighter Programs; program director for Recce, Strike and Electronic Warfare; and deputy director, F-16.

As deputy director of the largest single program in the Department of Defense, delivering more than 200 aircraft a year with an annual budget of $3 billion, he was consistently on schedule and under budget while maintaining high production rates.

Lt. Gen. Teal earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy and a master of science degree in aeronautics from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He was granted Top Secret security clearance by the Department of Defense in 2002.

Rob Thomas II, Senior Executive Service, Department of Defense (Retired)
Vice President, Enterprise Transformation Strategy
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As a thought leader in enterprise architecture, and with nearly 30 years in federal service, Rob Thomas joined Accenture in November 2008. In his current role as vice president, he develops enterprise architecture strategies and solutions for defense, intelligence and federal clients.

Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Thomas was a member of the Senior Executive Service as the Federal Executive Next Generation, Net Centric Enterprise Architecture for U.S. Air Travel. He also brings experience from his service as deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration and deputy chief information officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, where he formulated and executed strategic plans for integrating C4ISR, U.S. Air Force experimentation, and Air Force modeling and simulation.

As principal advisor to the secretary of the Air Force and Air Force chief of staff in these areas, he managed a portfolio in excess of $20 billion to execute business process transformation and modernization initiatives. Mr. Thomas was also responsible for information management, information assurance and information technology advancements for the Air Force, while directing total force management and development of the 100,000-person communications and information career field.

Mr. Thomas has a diverse background of federal service including U.S. Customs, Veterans Affairs and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Along with a number of professional certifications, he holds a bachelor of science degree in information systems from Wayland Baptist University and a master of science degree in management information systems from Colorado Technical University.

Joe Webster
Vice President, Mission Services
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Joseph G. Webster, Ph.D., is vice president of mission services. He brings more than 27 years of experience in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve and was the initial sponsor of much of the core business software now used for US military air operations including the Portable Flight Planning System, FalconView, Patriot Excalibur and the Personal Computer Debriefing System.

Dr. Webster leads business development activities across the Department of Defense, emphasizing Accenture’s experience in information technologies; data aggregation and presentation; command and control; and decision support. His most recent success, netCDS (net-centric Commanders Decision Services), is a service-oriented architecture-based technology platform used by the Air Force to provide collaboration services, situational awareness and decision support in near-real time. He is also guiding Accenture’s growth into the NextGen Air Transportation program.

In his previous roles, Dr. Webster served as the principal advisor to the chief of Air Force Reserve and other key civilian and military officials of the United States Air Force concerning Air Force Reserve legislative issues and congressional relations. He provided daily liaison between the Air Force and Congress on all Air Force Reserve requirements, force structure and personnel issues, and provided advocacy for airpower through daily personal contact with members of Congress and their staffs, including worldwide fact-finding missions.

Dr. Webster continues to serve as a traditional reservist and "Senior IMA" in the Pentagon.

Mark Whelan
Executive Vice President
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Mark Whelan is executive vice president, Mission Services Delivery. He has more than 25 years of experience and innovation in information technology, systems integration and digital services, as well as strong utility and aerospace industry expertise.

Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Whelan served as vice president of operations for the Mid-Atlantic Region for Breakaway Solutions, a full-service provider of digital solutions. In this role, he managed all professional services activities, including systems development and integration of Web services for e-business, e-commerce, e-procurement and customer relationship management.

Mr. Whelan previously was CIO of a division of a Fortune 100 electric and gas utility that provided IT services to more than 2,000 employees. He also was a project executive for this utility, with responsibility for managing enterprise-level development and implementation projects ranging from $30 million to $70 million.

Prior to this role, Mr. Whelan was the manager of system performance and analysis for General Electric Aerospace. He also was manager of systems engineering for General Electric, where he directed and planned all activities related to advanced simulation and modeling.

His educational achievements include an M.B.A. from St. Joseph’s University and a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Penn State University.