Founder, CEO & Principal Strategy and Performance Partner,

SMP, CBA®, CPM, PfMP®, PgMP®, PMP®, CTBME, CLCMP, CP2AF, VSMF, KMP II, FFP, SPC6, LPM, RTE, SA, DAVSC, DAC, DASSM, PMI-ACP, PSM II, PSM I, ITILv4, WPSP

Tony is a USAF Veteran. He is a business and engineering executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in technology-focused organizations serving in various roles, including CEO, President, COO, CTO, Executive VP, and Director of Engineering. He’s founded and led multiple national and international startups; and offers experience working in Federal, Financial, and Energy sectors, helping clients redesign their business models and achieve transformation goals.

In recent years, he has focused on helping large organizations successfully traverse the complexities of enterprise-level transformations to achieve organizational strategic benefits and value using Strategy Management, Business Architecture, Product Management, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management, Value Stream Management, Organizational Change Management, Lean, Agile, and other empirical frameworks. The heart of Tony’s approach is customer value creation, “having skin in the game”, and building trust with stakeholders across the organization.

EVP & Chief Behavioral Officer,

Ph.D., ODCP, PMP®, LPC, LPM, RTE, SA, SAFe PO/PM, VSMF, Prosci Certified, CLCMP, CSM®

Yuliya has over 20 years of business experience and is an expert in organizational effectiveness and large-scale behavioral change, combining evidence-based research with practical tools for sustainable results. She is an accomplished Organizational Effectiveness Expert, Researcher, Program Evaluator, and Leadership Consultant offering skills in Organizational Design, Performance Management, Change Management, Cultural and Behavioral Assessments, Succession Planning and Talent Development, Leadership Training, Coaching, Program Development and Evaluation, Portfolio, Program and Project Management, and Quantitative/Qualitative Research Methodologies.

EVP & Chief Enterprise Architect, Ph.D., DBA, PMP®, FEAC®, CEA®, CMMI®-Development, LZA SOA & Cloud, CSM®

James is a USAF Veteran. He is a seasoned Enterprise Architect with two doctoral degrees and 30+ years of experience. He is a trusted advisor in transforming IT landscapes across defense, healthcare and federal sectors. Author of the Aiken Unifying Enterprise Architecture Framework, which has been copyrighted (VAu-1-170-under the current working title of, DETERMINING AN EFFECTIVE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. The Aiken Unifying Enterprise Architecture Framework has three foundational pillars, (1) best practices of existing enterprise architecture frameworks such as DoDAF, FEAF, TOGAF, and Zachman; (2) quality systems management; and (3) Cloud Architecture. The framework “unifies” technical, physical, and business models that authenticate the “non-Integrated Processes and systems in different parts of the enterprise” into integrated processes and systems across the entire Enterprise.

He provided subject matter expertise to the Director, Enterprise Architect and Capabilities Office (EACO) and support to senior level leadership within the Office of the Deputy Chief Information Officer, Special Access Programs Information Technology (DCIO SAP IT). As the SAIC Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), Chief Engineer and Architecture, responsible for delivering IT enterprise architecture solutions to improve the DCSA User Experience, in a transformative environment. Architected the Joint Lessons Learned Information System for the DoD Joint Chief of Staff. As the Chief Cloud Architect and Engineer, he architected and stood up the Army CIO HQDA Enterprise Cloud Management Office (ECMO). Co-author of the Army CIO Zero Trust Reference and Infrastructure Architectures. He was the Chief Architect to establish and deploy an enterprise-scale data center composed of networks, end-user services, cybersecurity, operations, and sustainment, integral to engineering and deploying a secure computing environment for a foreign ally customer.

Additionally, he was the Chief Architect/Program Manager supporting the Military Health System (MHS) enterprise where his primary function was to modernize the Defense Health Agency Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) systems and medical devices with $200M+, $750M IM/IT program, and manage $3B+ Medical Health Services (MHS) investment portfolio using DoD Acquisitions guidelines.