PER
BEITH
PRESIDENT AND CEO, AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORP., MANASSAS
Last September, Beith moved east from California, where he worked for Te Boeing Co. since 1996, to take the reins at Aurora, one of the flight company’s subsidiaries. With a background in autonomous vehicle systems, signal processing systems and man- aging the Boeing NeXt group of air vehicles, Beith now leads a team that designs and builds unmanned aerial vehicles. He replaced Aurora’s founder, John Langford. Beith has served on the executive committee of
the Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute board and has made civic contributions to the Virginia Aviation Business Association, the Prince William County Chamber of Commerce and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
EDUCATION: Michigan State University (B.S.), Claremont Graduate University (MBA) and certi- fication from the Defense Acquisition University Executive Program Management program
FIRST JOB: Paperboy delivering The Oakland Press in a Detroit suburb
PERSON I ADMIRE: Albert Einstein. He overcame many personal struggles and had a unique ability to simplify highly complex ideas.
FAVORITE VACATION DESTINATION: Hawaii. I’ve visited the islands over 20 times!
MATT CALKINS
FOUNDER, CEO AND EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, APPIAN CORP., MCLEAN
At age 26, Calkins started cloud computing firm Appian Corp. in 1999 out of his basement. It’s now grown to a company that reported $260.4 million in revenue last year, employing more than 650 people in Virginia. Appian offers code digitization programs that allows companies to write their own software by “drawing” rather than writing code. For five years after earning his bachelor’s degree
in economics from Dartmouth College, Calkins was the director of the enterprise product group at Tysons-based software company MicroStrategy Inc. In January, Appian acquired Novayre Solutions
SL, developer of the automated software platform Jidoka RPA (robotic process automation). Late last year, Appian moved its headquarters from Reston to the former Gannett Co. Inc. headquarters building in Tysons. As part of the relocation, Gov. Ralph Northam approved $4 million in incentives to encourage Appian to add hundreds of employees over five years. Calkins serves on the boards of the nonprofit
Virginia Public Access Project, the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership and the Northern Virginia Technology Council PAC. Calkins also is the author of three board games and has won several game design awards. Forbes in 2019 deemed him a “Billionaire, Board Game God and Tech’s Hidden Disruptor.”
TERESA CARLSON
VICE PRESIDENT, WORLDWIDE PUBLIC SECTOR, AMAZON WEB SERVICES, HERNDON
Before joining Amazon Web Services in 2010, Carlson was vice president of federal sales and operations at Microsoft Corp. In her AWS leadership role, she founded the public sector unit of Amazon Cloud Services. Its customer count includes more than 5,000 government agencies, 10,000 educational institutions and 28,000 nonprofits. Last year, AWS alone generated $35 billion in
revenue for the e-commerce giant. In June, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the AWS unit was expanding by adding an aerospace and satellite solutions unit to support rocket launches, human spaceflight support, robotic systems, mission control operations, space stations and satellite networks. Before her technology career, Carlson worked in
health care and business management. Carlson also has been a member of the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors, the United Service Organizations Inc. of Metropolitan Washington Board of Directors, the Veteran Administration Advisory Committee and Princeton University’s Infrastructure Board. In 2018, she was appointed to the White House Historical Association Board of Directors.
D. JAMES BIDZOS
FOUNDER,
CHAIRMAN AND CEO, VERISIGN INC., RESTON
In 1995, Bidzos founded Verisign, a domain name registry services and internet infrastructure provider. Verisign is the authoritative registry for top level and commonly used internet domains, including .com, .net and .name. It also operates the back end system of .jobs, .gov and .edu. Last year, Verisign reported $1.23 billion in
revenues and net income of $612 million. According to CEO pay reports released in 2017, Bidzos was one of Virginia’s top-earning executives, bringing home more than $1.63 million. As most of Verisign’s business is done on the East Coast, it moved from its original Mountain View, California, headquarters to Northern Virginia in 2011. Bidzos started his career at IBM and served
as president and CEO of network encryption company RSA Security, which was acquired by Dell Technologies in 2016. He served as RSA’s vice chairman from 1999 to 2002. At Verisign, Bidzos also serves as chairman of the board of directors and in August 2009 became executive chairman. An industry pioneer, Bidzos is listed in tech
industry trade magazine CRN’s Computer Industry Hall of Fame.
JENNIFER BOYKIN
PRESIDENT, NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING; EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, HUNTINGTON
INGALLS INDUSTRIES, NEWPORT NEWS
In 2017, Boykin became president of the Newport News shipyard, part of Huntington Ingalls Industries — the country’s largest military shipbuilding company. With approximately $5.2 billion in revenue last year, Newport News Shipbuilding tops the list of industrial employers in Virginia. As president, Boykin oversees more than 25,000
employees and Newport News Shipbuilding’s involve- ment in the U.S. Navy’s largest-ever shipbuilding contract. Te company is building nine Virginia-class Block V attack submarines with General Dynamics Electric Boat as part of a $22.2 billion contract awarded in December 2019. Boykin is also on the board of visitors at the U.S.
Merchant Marine Academy. Boykin earned her bachelor’s degree in marine
engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and her master’s degree in engineering management from Te George Washington University. Outside of work, Boykin serves on the Hampton Roads Business Roundtable and the Virginia Business Council. She is also a member of women’s empower-
ment groups First10Forward and Old Dominion University’s Women’s Initiative Network. Boykin is the first woman president at Newport News Shipbuilding, which was founded in 1886.
BRUCE L. CASWELL
CEO AND PRESIDENT, MAXIMUS INC., RESTON
Caswell joined Maximus in 2004 and has served in a variety of leadership roles touching upon all segments of the company’s government service outsourcing business. With 2019 revenue of $2.9 billion, Maximus partners with agencies in Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S., where it helps with administering government-sponsored programs such as Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid. Maximus promotes itself as the nation’s largest administrator of Medicaid enrollment. Promoted to CEO in 2018, Caswell has nurtured
the company’s health services segment, which grew more than 300% under his care. Te Northern Virginia Technology Council vice chairman also helped Maximus formulate its government health care reform strategy, leading the effort in enhancing and streamlining the company’s technology, automa- tion, operational analytics and digital solutions. In 2017, the firm, which has more than 34,000
employees worldwide, made Fortune’s list of “Most Admired Companies,” but controversy erupted in April when Maximus call center workers staged a walkout, protesting low wages and COVID-19 concerns.
HOBBY/PASSION: Long-distance runner, including completion of 30 full marathons and eight 50-milers
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