Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Patrick sits at the helm of iGov as it is poised to further expand its current customer base and maintain its efficient and lean business profile. He founded iGov in 1996 to offer government agencies worldwide manageable and cost-effective IT services and solutions. iGov has since evolved into a company that can now meet the entire range of tactical and enterprise IT needs of federal agencies. His entrepreneurial skills are well-recognized in the government IT market. He possesses strong creativity as an executive leader and inspires confidence and camaraderie with his intuitive team-building skills.

Prior to founding iGov, Mr. Neven held several key marketing and managerial positions with prominent IT government contractors. Most recently, he was the Director of Federal Sales for Innova Communications and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for BDS, Inc.

Mr. Neven was educated in North America and Europe, graduating from Saint Ambrose in England.

President and Chief Operating Officer

Mike Tyrrell joined iGov in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer from Tatum LLC and was promoted to President & COO in December 2006. Mr. Tyrrell has over 25 years of professional experience and provides iGov with corporate, investment and financial management, strategic planning expertise, and value creation experience. Mr. Tyrrell previously served as a highly successful senior executive for several other information technology companies in the Washington, DC area, including In-Q-Tel, Inc., KTI Network Solutions, and QuesTech, Inc.

Mr. Tyrrell holds an MBA in Finance from George Mason University, a Masters in Telecommunications from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Scranton. He is also a Wharton Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School for continuing executive education. In addition, he has a CPA license from the State of Virginia.

Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

Walter Hupalo was a co-founder iGov, establishing the government contracts and proposal division to support the company’s future growth to over $100 million dollars. Today, he continues in his work in new business development and business capture management and also leads the company’s initiatives in ISO quality management systems and assurance.

Prior to the founding of iGov, Mr. Hupalo held several key contract and proposal management positions with leading IT government contractors. Most recently, he served as Director of Bids and Proposals for Innova Communications. Prior to Innova, he served as Proposal Manager of BDS, Inc. and continued in that role after the merger with BTG, Inc.

Mr. Hupalo holds a Master’s in History from West Virginia University, and a Bachelor's in History from Bethany College. He also has a Certificate in Distribution Management from Ohio State University and has participated in the University of Virginia Contracts and Procurement Management Program. Mr. Hupalo is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Member, Board of Directors

Mr. Salvatori has forty years of management and technical experience with extensive knowledge of information technology and working with the government and private industry. Mr. Salvatori was a founder, chairman and CEO of QuesTech, Inc., and its subsidiaries and Chairman of Dynamic Engineering, Inc., of Newport News, Virginia.

Prior to the founding of QuesTech, Inc., Mr. Salvatori worked in technical management positions for Radiation Systems, Inc. (RSI) of McLean, Virginia and HRZB-Singer of State College, Pennsylvania.

Most recently he has served on the boards of Global Management Systems, Inc. (GMSI) of Rockville, MD, and CACI Inc., of Arlington, Virginia. In addition he has also served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Corporate Growth of Northern Virginia (ACG).

Mr. Salvatori holds a B.S.E.E. from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Annapolis Yacht Club. Mr. Salvatori served honorably in the United States Air Force (USAF).

Member, Board of Directors

John Vinter is the industry pre-eminent space risk management and insurance consultant. He has been involved with virtually all aspects of satellite business for over thirty years. Mr. Vinter was appointed to the Department of Transportation’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) in January 2000 and continues to serve today. In July 2003, he was appointed as COMSTAC Chairperson and served as Chair until January 2007.

Mr. Vinter founded International Space Brokers (ISB) in February, 1991. From March 1984 to February 1991, as its Executive Vice President, Mr. Vinter was responsible for the space underwriting activities for INTEC (subsequently AXA Space and now Paris Re). From August 1996 to February 1994, Mr. Vinter held a variety of positions with Satellite Business Systems where he was Director of Administration, Contracts and Procurement. From July 1968 to August 1976, Mr. Vinter held a number of management positions within Communications Satellite Corporation.

John Vinter has a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University and an M.S. degree in Telecommunications Operations from George Washington University.

Senior Vice President, Sales

An original iGov co-founder, Mr. Pooley has over twenty five years of experience supporting the federal government. From a college internship with the U.S. Navy to his current position, he has held multiple key positions of ever-increasing responsibility. Prior to iGov, Jack started his professional career with Booz-Allen & Hamilton and held the positions of Network Engineer and Account Executive with Innova Communications. Mr. Pooley also completed a successful venture with iGov’s sister company, Government Channels Group. 

Mr. Pooley holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from James Madison University.

Steve Hamric

Chief Financial Officer

Steve Hamric joined iGov in 2010 to oversee the company’s finance, accounting, information technology and purchasing areas. As part of the company’s senior executive team and investment committee, he helps guide iGov's strategic direction.

Prior to joining iGov, Mr. Hamric served as the CFO for Athena Technologies, Inc. since 2001, directing Athena's accounting and finance, legal, administrative, human resources, contracts, and information technology activities. He possesses over 19 years experience in financial and administrative management for high-growth organizations. Mr. Hamric specializes in government contracting, mergers & acquisitions, capital financings, banking and credit facilities for aggressive growth companies. He has previously served as CFO and Controller for several start-up technology companies, including Appfluent Technology, and Entevo Corporation. He has played an active role in raising over $50 million in debt & equity capital, and was also instrumental in closing M&A transactions totaling over $250 million. In addition, Mr. Hamric has held various accounting and financial management positions at organizations including Dyncorp and Airborne Freight Corporation.

Mr. Hamric holds an MBA from the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business and his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Radford University.
 

Vice President of Program Management

Responsible for the oversight of all IT system integration contracts, Allan Bellacicco joined iGov in 2007.  Prior to that at TranTech Inc., he was Senior Vice President of the Enterprise Services Group responsible for a successful launch of a new solution that manages video evidence for the Criminal Justice. At Steve Myers and Associates he provided competition management for companies in the IT, Defense, Accounting, and BioMed industries to capture large federal contracts.  He completed 20 years at Northrop Grumman IT, with assignments that included VP for Critical Infrastructure IT consulting unit, and Division Director for a State Department IT support practice.  A licensed Professional Engineer and certified Project Management Professional Allan is also a U.S. Navy Surface Warfare and Civil Engineer Corps veteran. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Citadel and completed executive course work at Harvard, Wharton and Darden Business Schools in general management and finance.

Sean Thompson

Vice President of Business Development

Mr. Thompson is responsible for all services and solutions focused business development and capture activities for iGov. He joins iGov with more than 15 years of industry experience in the areas of business acquisition, capture and delivery. Before joining iGov he led all business development and capture activities for a division of Northrop Grumman and served as a capture manager for large services focused procurements in the DoD and Intelligence communities. Prior to his time at Northrop Grumman, Mr. Thompson worked with IBM as a business developer and project/program manager for critical classified Intelligence Community Programs. He also spent several years with American Management Systems as a Principal serving in several senior corporate business acquisition and marketing roles.

Mr. Thompson graduated with honors from the University of Virginia with a Master of Science concentrating in IT Management. He also holds a Master of Business and a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University with concentrations in Accounting and Computer Information Systems.

Vice President of Contracts

As Vice President of Contracts, Mr. Walsh is responsible for the management and execution of all iGov contracts, subcontracts and partner agreements. He has more than 20 years experience in program management, logistics and contract management. Mr. Walsh joined iGov in 2001 as Senior Program Manager and assumed his current position in 2005. Before joining iGov, he served as a program manager with Government Technology Services, Inc. (GTSI) where he managed several large contracts including a $400 million+ U.S. Army contract offering workstations, servers, notebooks, printers and peripherals and technical services. He also held program and project management positions with Pulsar Data Systems and Falcon Microsystems and was a distribution manager with INMAC.

Mr. Walsh has a BS degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland and is a member of the National Contracts Management Association.

Vice President of Human Resources

Kim Schmitt joined iGov in 2004 as Director of Employment with responsibility for recruiting and expanding the iGov workforce to match the company's continuous growth. Ms. Schmitt's position evolved into the development and management of the Human Resources department for iGov. She was later promoted to Vice President of Human Resources.

Ms. Schmitt has over 20 years of experience in Recruitment and Human Resources with 10 years in the government contracting arena. She has held previous management positions with SI International, Intervise Consulting and Alexus International.

Ms. Schmitt holds a Bachelor's of Business Administration with a focus on Business Management from Eastern Kentucky University and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).