• Dan Bannister served for decades building DynCorp into a premier management and operations company, supporting U.S. forces around the world. As President and Chairman, he led the acquisition and integration of more than 40 companies into Dyncorp.
• Tom Hewitt founded Federal Sources, the leading market research company in the federal sector, and served as a senior marketing and sales executive with Computer Sciences Corporation, Boeing, and other companies in the industry.
• Dr. John White served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget He has also served as was CEO of Interactive Systems and a senior executive with The Eastman Kodak Company and the Rand Corporation.
• Dr. Gary R. Nelson spent twenty years as a senior executive with SRA International, a systems integrator and professional services firm. He helped spearhead the growth of SRA from a 40-person firm to one that today employs over 5,000 employees.
• John T. Schell III has served as CEO of a federal technology product company and spent years providing advisory services for federal companies, particularly in mergers and acquisitions.

Under Sigma Federal leadership, there will be a focus on the basics of management and delivery of value to customers:

1. Market strategy - directions in terms of service offerings, markets, and clients.

2. Marketing and branding - influencing the customers' and market's view of the company.

3. Contract vehicles - energetic use of available government and agency-wide contract vehicles to expand services to new customers.

4. Sales life cycle - building a process for pursuing and winning new contracts.

5. Idea generation - the creative development of new service offerings to meet client needs.

6. Incentives - appropriate incentives for management and executives to achieve company goals.

Some of our ideas for helping our companies grow are in the presentation, "Ten Ways To Turbocharge Your Business: Organic Growth for Government Contractors."