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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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