Stan Z. Soloway
President & CEO

Stan Z. Soloway is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Services Council, the principal national trade association representing the government professional and technical services industry. PSC is known for its leadership on the full range of government acquisition/procurement and outsourcing and privatization issues. Mr. Soloway assumed the presidency in January 2001.  

Mr. Soloway is an expert on the relationship between the public and private sectors and is routinely sought out by the media, federal agencies, congress and others to provide commentary and perspective on the full range of procurement and outsourcing issues. He also 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.

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.

In 2007, Soloway was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a seat on the bi-partisan Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Mr. Soloway is a principal of the Council on Excellence in Government, and was an expert panelist for studies conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies on the future of defense technology and acquisition policy. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Contract Management Association, was a 2005 recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award, and speaks frequently to industry and government organizations on government technology, acquisition, human capital, and strategic management issues.

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 in, and frequent lecturer 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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