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Stan Z. Soloway
President & CEO
Stan Z.
Soloway is President and CEO of the Professional Services
Council, the principal national trade association of the
government professional and technical services industry. PSC
is widely known for its leadership on the full range of
government acquisition/procurement and outsourcing and
privatization issues. Soloway assumed the presidency in
January 2001. PSC has a membership of over 325 companies of
all sizes, performing services of all kinds for virtually
every agency of the government.
In addition to serving as President of PSC,
Soloway was confirmed by the Senate in June 2007 as a member
of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National
and Community Service.
He
writes a monthly column in Washington Technology
magazine and was a member of the congressionally mandated,
national panel on the future of government outsourcing
chaired by the Comptroller General of the U.S.
Soloway is also a Principal of the Council for Excellence in
Government, where he also serves as a charter member of the
Council’s “Senior Advisors to Government Executives”
program. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the
National Contract Management Association, and received the
prestigious Federal 100 Award in 2005. He also serves as an
advisor to the Missile Defense Agency for the MDA’s upcoming
“MiDAESS” procurement for SETA support.
Prior to
joining PSC, Mr. Soloway served as the deputy undersecretary
of defense (acquisition reform) and concurrently as director
of Secretary of Defense William Cohen’s Defense Reform
Initiative. As deputy undersecretary, he was the
department’s senior official responsible for the development
and implementation of far-reaching reforms to DoD’s
acquisition processes and policies and for the oversight of
the training, education and career development of the
200,000-member defense acquisition workforce. As director,
DRI, Mr. Soloway led significant department-wide
re-engineering and reform initiatives in areas as diverse as
privatization and outsourcing, electronic commerce,
financial management reform, logistics transformation, and
the quality of life for American troops.
In
recognition of his leadership at DoD, Mr. Soloway was
awarded both the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding
Public Service and the Secretary of Defense Medal for
Distinguished Public Service.
Before
his appointment to DoD, Mr. Soloway was a public policy and
public affairs consultant for more than 20 years and a
highly regarded expert on acquisition, privatization, and
outsourcing issues. He also co-produced the critically
acclaimed “Great Confrontations at the Oxford Union”, a
series of prime-time specials that aired nationally on
public television. He earned a degree in political science
from Denison University, where he was elected to the
National Men’s Journalism, National Men’s Leadership, and
National Political Science honorary societies.
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