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The Omni Federal team is led by industry veterans across both the commercial and federal space leveraging experience in supporting Fortune 500 companies, Defense, and Intelligence agencies alike. We are driven not only by our leaders at the helm, but also the incredible team of subject matter experts driving innovation and delivery for those who serve and keep us safe.

Parag Thakker

CEO

Parag Thakker brings a strong delivery focus, strategic vision and relentless focus on transformation for our customers. Parag is very passionate in solving customer problems with humility, collaborative attitude and has a great knack of keeping things simple and stupid.

Parag has built a strong Omni culture of people over process, delivery first mindset and delighting our users. Parag brings a wealth of commercial digital transformation experience working for large-scale commercial customers across manufacturing, media, retail, and finance. His experience and approach drives Omni’s mission, to deliver digital capabilities with exceptional user experiences to our warfighters, as they deserve nothing less.

Outside of work, Parag enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters in Gainesville, VA, where they are busy with archery, tennis, lacrosse and other events. Parag and his family enjoy traveling, spicy food and are big 49ers and Texans fans.

Kevin Coyle

Chief Operating Officer

As part of the leadership team at Omni Federal, Kevin ensures Omni maintains and executes its business strategy, builds its brand within the market, delivers exceptional work for its customers and most importantly, takes really good care of its people. Omni’s culture is a huge differentiator for Omni, and Omni’s people are what make the culture.

Kevin has over 30 years of experience in technology, with the majority of that experience focused on helping organizations digitally transform and leading technology consulting firms in the commercial and federal market. Over the last few years, Kevin has focused on taking everything he has learned to help the federal government with digital transformation and modernization, with the goal of better defending our nation and better serving the men and women in uniform.

Outside of work Kevin enjoys cycling, surfing, paddleboarding, golf and any other activity you can find at the beach. He splits his time between Ocean City MD and Loudoun County VA, where he lives with his wife, two sons and super crazy Aussie Doodle.

Paul Mcquillan

Chief Growth and Strategy Officer

As Chief Growth and Strategy Officer, Paul is responsible for leading the Growth Center of Excellence providing innovative digital transformation solutions by executing, forecasting and achieving Omni Federal growth strategy and objectives. Paul is also responsible for growing and mentoring business development, capture and proposal teams, forming business alliances, implementing strategic marketing initiatives, and pursuing corporate development opportunities related to Acquisitions.

With more than 30 years of Federal, Commercial and International experience delivering technology enable services, Paul has an extensive track record of positioning global companies in highly competitive markets, building go-to-market capabilities, mission focused operations delivery, channel and partner management, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.

Outside of work Paul spends time with his wife and 4 kids attending activities (baseball, football, soccer, gymnastics, dance, music and genealogy) residing in Northern VA. Paul and his family also enjoy traveling, the arts and cheering on local Washington DC area sports teams.

Paul is active in several charities, to include Hopelink Behavioral Health Board of Directors whose mission is to provide behavioral health, crisis and suicide intervention services.

Collin Lee

Chief Innovation Officer

Collin is Omni Federal’s Chief Innovation Officer and is responsible for guiding customers through disruptive technology adoption. His superpower is listening to difficult problems, thinking through creative solutions, and quickly moving ideas into operations. Collin has a bias for emerging technologies and getting MVPs in users’ hands at speed. No concept is too immature, or Valley of Death too wide.

Collin has 25 years of experience digging deep into federal programs to understand their missions, priorities, and budgets. He is a former Intelligence Officer, White House staffer, and Congressional staffer.

Accordingly, Collin understands the drivers behind both national security policies and corporate financial statements. The common thread throughout his career is an intense focus on stakeholder satisfaction and execution excellence.

Collin’s primary mission, however, is raising two young boys in Greenwich, CT. The treads of his 35” Jeep tires spend more time at baseball diamonds, hockey rinks, and Cub Scout activities than in the woods or sand where they belong. Whether they do get on a trail, or not, the boys spend countless hours discussing the finer points of Washington Nationals baseball and James Madison University football.

Rob Gordon

Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Rob oversees the technical strategy across Omni Federal, ensuring that the technology initiatives that Omni invests in are aligned with our customers’ goals and objectives. Rob is passionate about applying innovative technical solutions to meet the DoD’s most demanding challenges.

Rob has over 25 years of experience as a technology leader in both commercial and federal environments with a focus on enterprise cloud architecture, cybersecurity, ICAM, and zero trust. Prior to working at Omni, Rob led the architecture and technical delivery teams at Akamai’s Defense group, where he oversaw the successful delivery of several large programs for both the USAF and US Army.

Outside of work, Rob enjoys spending time with his wife and son in the Baltimore, MD area, as well as at the beach in Rehoboth, DE. Rob is an avid Baltimore sports fan (go O’s and Ravens!), and also collects sports cards as a hobby.

Sameer Qudsi

Chief Solutions Officer

As Chief Solutions Officer (CSO), Sameer oversees the development and application of innovative capabilities across Omni Federal to support program delivery as well as company growth. Sameer’s background includes 13+ years at Lockheed Martin in a variety of technical and managerial leadership roles supporting Systems Engineering, Software Development, Cyber, Modeling & Simulation, C4ISR and Logistics across a wide range of DoD clients.

At Omni, Sameer leads Omni Labs, an in-house R&D environment. Sameer also serves as Program Delivery Executive on multiple strategic projects at Air Force, Army and Space Force ensuring we apply our innovative solutions to meet customer mission requirements. Furthermore, Sameer serves as a Capture Executive overseeing Omni’s Top Opportunities for growth ensuring we combine innovative technical solutions with a holistic capture strategy to win competitive bids.

Charlie Kola

Chief Financial Officer

As CFO, Charlie plays a key role in Omni Federal’s leadership team ensuring the business is well positioned to meet the demands of its growth strategy and oversees Finance, Accounting, Pricing, Contracts and IT.

After starting his career at a fortune 500 insurance company, Charlie was drawn to national security following 9/11 and has spent the last 20 years working for innovative defense companies. Prior to Omni Federal, Charlie was CFO for Soar Technology, a leader in human-centered AI solutions for the DoD. He also held senior financial leadership roles at Aleut Federal and Mission Essential.

Outside of work, Charlie is an avid supporter of the University of Michigan Ice Hockey team and lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and daughter.

Gabriel Bermeo

Portfolio Owner, Awesome Cheetah (Innovation)

Gabriel Bermeo is an executive with Omni Federal focused on running Omni’s Innovation Portfolio that designs, builds, and operates digital products for government clients.

He brings over 20 years of industry experience across Media and Financial Services. He creates value by blending commercial and federal best practices resulting in high impact solutions.

He is an expert in design and technology across eCommerce, Portal, and Mobile Applications. Currently, he is leading Digital University which is one of the fastest growing technical training platforms across the DoD.

Bobby Wilkes

Vice President, Customer Relations

Bobby Wilkes is a senior executive with Omni Federal focused on providing Mission Systems services and solutions for our government clients.

In his previous position, he was an independent consultant with Deep Water Point providing Executive and Strategic Support Services to increase the value of his client’s business. Additionally, he was a Senior Executive with the GDIT Defense Group responsible for strategy, growth and client relationships. In addition, he was a Vice President and General Manager with CACI, CSC and CSRA, responsible for the Air Force portfolio.

As a member of the Senior Executive Service, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense responsible for advising the Secretary of Defense on policy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.

Major General Wilkes was commissioned following graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy. General Wilkes held command at squadron, group and wing levels, as well as the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, and an Expeditionary Mobility Task Force. He was Director of Operations for Joint Task Force Southwest Asia during Operation Desert Fox and served during Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Director of the Air Component Coordination Element, U.S. Central Command, and as Director of the Combined Air Operations Center. He also served as the Joint Staff Director of Politico-Military Affairs for Asia-Pacific responsible for regional planning and policy supporting the U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Central Command and U. S. Transportation Command.

General Wilkes was a command pilot with over 4,500 hours in the T-38, A-10, F-16, C-130, EC-130 and KC-10.

Paul Cooper

Portfolio Owner, StormCoopers (Air Force)

Paul Cooper is an executive with Omni Federal focused on delivering industry-leading products, services and solutions for our Department of the Air Force clients as Omni’s DAF Portfolio Owner.

He brings 20+ years of government acquisitions, program execution, and digital services delivery as a recently retired USAF Lt Col.

Paul was commissioned in the USAF in 2002 through Officer Training School. He has served as a squadron commander, electronic warfare and operational test engineer, systems control director for an AOC, Sr Weather Collection Systems Acquisitions lead, Maintenance IT systems branch chief, deployed with 18th Airborne at HQ CJTOIF, and most recently the CEO of BESPIN Software Factory, PEO Business and Enterprise Systems. As CEO of BESPIN he stood up and led a software factory responsible for mobile and cloud application development.

Paul currently resides in central Florida with his wife and 2 daughters.

Tim Smith

Intel Portfolio Leader

Tim leads Omni’s Intelligence line of business, bringing the full spectrum of Omni’s cutting-edge solutions, services and products to the Intelligence community in support of the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.

With a career that spans over 30 years, Tim has been dedicated to supporting the federal government and delivering mission critical solutions by leveraging technology to improve the way our national security programs work. Tim uses this experience, best practices and relationships to ensure that Omni continues to exceed mission requirements and customer expectations while driving a culture that cares about its people.

A Fed100 awardee and a recipient of the ACT-IAC Leadership Award, Tim stays very active in the government contracting community and through his volunteer work, helps to drive industry and government collaboration and innovation.

Tim, his wife Jill and their English Bulldog, Tippy, live in Loudoun County on the Blue Ridge Mountains where they often enjoy a quiet weekend at one of the local Virginia wineries. Tim & Jill continue to stay active by hiking and biking and in 2004 Tim and Jill both completed the Iron Man USA competition.

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