Booz Allen appoints Bill Vass as CTO

Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) announced that William Vass has been appointed chief technology officer, CTO, and will join the firm’s leadership team effective June 17. Aligned with Booz Allen’s growth strategy, VoLT Vass will focus on accelerating solutions that leverage the firm’s deep mission knowledge and leading position in AI, cyber, and software and data-centric capabilities. “As we bring transformative technologies to missions of national importance at speed and scale, we welcome Bill’s leadership to further propel our bold innovation agenda,” said Horacio Rozanski, president and CEO of Booz Allen. Vass has more than 40 years of experience creating and delivering innovative IT, large-scale cloud, digital twins, 3D-processing extended reality geospatial, high-performance computing quantum computing, quantum networking, robotics, autonomy, and cybersecurity solutions. He was most recently vice president of engineering at Amazon Web Services (AMZN) AWS , where he spent nearly a decade leading software and hardware development for emerging technology services. Vass will succeed executive vice president and CTO Susan Penfield, who is retiring in July after a 30-year career with the firm.