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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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