Ron Sokolov
Vice President, Public Sector Practice lead at Kaiser Associates- Claim this Profile
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Robert Sapko
As Director of Engineering Services, I reported directly to Ron when he was brought on as COO of Gravitate Solutions. I worked with him for two years. Ron embedded himself into the company’s culture determined to gain knowledge about the people and how he could help them be successful in reaching the company’s strategic goals. He brought his knowledge and experience while lifting up those around him with respect and trust, building a stronger team. He quickly understood the complex dynamics on my and other teams and identified and implemented processes and technologies that improved inter-team relationships and company productivity. While not an engineer himself, Ron had little difficulty appreciating the technical work and motivating my technical staff particularly through rewarding strong performance and introducing career paths. I respect and appreciate Ron as a mentor of mine both then and today.
Chad Boschert
Ron is a pragmatic and caring leader. He excels at analyzing a problem, planning a solution, and developing systems and metrics to track progress. For him, it’s more than a process, it is his nature. He cares about his team, personally and professionally, and drives them to succeed. In business there are people you work with and people you grow with - With Ron, you are likely to grow. I did.
Robert Sapko
As Director of Engineering Services, I reported directly to Ron when he was brought on as COO of Gravitate Solutions. I worked with him for two years. Ron embedded himself into the company’s culture determined to gain knowledge about the people and how he could help them be successful in reaching the company’s strategic goals. He brought his knowledge and experience while lifting up those around him with respect and trust, building a stronger team. He quickly understood the complex dynamics on my and other teams and identified and implemented processes and technologies that improved inter-team relationships and company productivity. While not an engineer himself, Ron had little difficulty appreciating the technical work and motivating my technical staff particularly through rewarding strong performance and introducing career paths. I respect and appreciate Ron as a mentor of mine both then and today.
Chad Boschert
Ron is a pragmatic and caring leader. He excels at analyzing a problem, planning a solution, and developing systems and metrics to track progress. For him, it’s more than a process, it is his nature. He cares about his team, personally and professionally, and drives them to succeed. In business there are people you work with and people you grow with - With Ron, you are likely to grow. I did.
Robert Sapko
As Director of Engineering Services, I reported directly to Ron when he was brought on as COO of Gravitate Solutions. I worked with him for two years. Ron embedded himself into the company’s culture determined to gain knowledge about the people and how he could help them be successful in reaching the company’s strategic goals. He brought his knowledge and experience while lifting up those around him with respect and trust, building a stronger team. He quickly understood the complex dynamics on my and other teams and identified and implemented processes and technologies that improved inter-team relationships and company productivity. While not an engineer himself, Ron had little difficulty appreciating the technical work and motivating my technical staff particularly through rewarding strong performance and introducing career paths. I respect and appreciate Ron as a mentor of mine both then and today.
Chad Boschert
Ron is a pragmatic and caring leader. He excels at analyzing a problem, planning a solution, and developing systems and metrics to track progress. For him, it’s more than a process, it is his nature. He cares about his team, personally and professionally, and drives them to succeed. In business there are people you work with and people you grow with - With Ron, you are likely to grow. I did.
Robert Sapko
As Director of Engineering Services, I reported directly to Ron when he was brought on as COO of Gravitate Solutions. I worked with him for two years. Ron embedded himself into the company’s culture determined to gain knowledge about the people and how he could help them be successful in reaching the company’s strategic goals. He brought his knowledge and experience while lifting up those around him with respect and trust, building a stronger team. He quickly understood the complex dynamics on my and other teams and identified and implemented processes and technologies that improved inter-team relationships and company productivity. While not an engineer himself, Ron had little difficulty appreciating the technical work and motivating my technical staff particularly through rewarding strong performance and introducing career paths. I respect and appreciate Ron as a mentor of mine both then and today.
Chad Boschert
Ron is a pragmatic and caring leader. He excels at analyzing a problem, planning a solution, and developing systems and metrics to track progress. For him, it’s more than a process, it is his nature. He cares about his team, personally and professionally, and drives them to succeed. In business there are people you work with and people you grow with - With Ron, you are likely to grow. I did.
Credentials
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Pragmatic Marketing Foundations, 2014
Pragmatic MarketingDec, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jul, 2019- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Kaiser Associates
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Vice President, Public Sector Practice lead
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2021 - Present
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead, Strategic Business Development
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2019 - 2021
Responsible for creating and leading cross-cutting strategic initiatives to support business development for a $100M book of business with 30+ federal government customers and partners. Responsible for creating and leading cross-cutting strategic initiatives to support business development for a $100M book of business with 30+ federal government customers and partners.
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President
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2018 - 2021
Provide consulting and advisory services to leaders in commercial entities on strategy and business development and nonprofit leaders on strategy and program management. Provide consulting and advisory services to leaders in commercial entities on strategy and business development and nonprofit leaders on strategy and program management.
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Independent Consultant
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Operating Officer
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2018 - 2019
Chief Operating Officer for $45M telecom and media technology consulting company, responsible for supporting an organizational pivot to put the company back on a path to growth. Overhauled people and talent management function, developing the company's first-ever strategic plan and KPIs. Launched Artificial Intelligence practice. Led effort to rebuild a corporate culture. During my tenure contributed to double digit increase in revenue. Chief Operating Officer for $45M telecom and media technology consulting company, responsible for supporting an organizational pivot to put the company back on a path to growth. Overhauled people and talent management function, developing the company's first-ever strategic plan and KPIs. Launched Artificial Intelligence practice. Led effort to rebuild a corporate culture. During my tenure contributed to double digit increase in revenue.
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Gravitate Solutions
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Operating Officer (COO)
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2015 - 2018
Responsible for all day-to-day operations of a 40-person team with direct oversight over: professional services, business development, talent management, sales and marketing, and corporate strategy. Owned a $10M book of business. Developed the company's first strategic plan, designed and implemented career-pathing for technical and non-technical staff, introduced data analytics to measure and improve corporate performance. Under my leadership company moved from flat to double digit growth, enabling the company to earn a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies.
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Booz Allen Hamilton
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Technology Strategist
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2010 - 2015
Developed business and led teams that helped Federal government executives including Assistant Secretaries and CIOs formulate and implement technological innovations in the areas of cloud, IoT, investment strategies, public-private partnerships, and organizational design. Took over a $250K business and increased annual billing to $6M in 18 months. Advised the CIO of a major bank develop its first technology investment roadmap, and worked in partnership with the CIO of a development bank to rebuild the CIO organization. Advised the assistant secretary of a large Federal agency on the implementation of a shared services initiative. Led software development projects of teams of up to 50 people, including creating a cloud-based analytics platform to encourage energy efficiency retrofits in commercial and residential buildings. Promoted twice over a 5-year period.
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Board Member, One Water (nonprofit)
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2008 - 2012
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President, North America / Board Member
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2008 - 2010
Global Ethics is a UK-based social purpose business that sells consumer goods and donates 100% of profits to our partner charities. I founded the North American operations and built the North American business from scractch, achieving $1M in sales in the first year, and donating over $15K to charities. I performed every role (by myself) from securing angel funding, to sales, to strategy, to product delivery boy. There is no better way to learn how to run a business than to simply do it, by yourself.
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Technology Practice Leader
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2006 - 2008
Advised CXOs of Fortune 1000 companies in areas of R&D and Procurement on best practices to target common and intractable challenges that impede growth. Led a team of researchers focused on heads of R&D, helping to identify more efficient ways to drive innovation within the company to open new product lines or bring disruptive technologies to market. Advised CXOs of Fortune 1000 companies in areas of R&D and Procurement on best practices to target common and intractable challenges that impede growth. Led a team of researchers focused on heads of R&D, helping to identify more efficient ways to drive innovation within the company to open new product lines or bring disruptive technologies to market.
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Transportation Security Administration
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United States
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Advisor, Homeland Security and Operations
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2002 - 2005
Advised the Administrator and Deputy Administration on issues of aviation and other modes of transportation and represented the TSA in meetings with the White House, heads of other agencies, and foreign governments. Topic areas included airport security, MANPADS and US-VISIT. Also developed the customer service program for the 1.8M plus daily passengers including organizing and managing a partnership with over 50 stakeholders in the aviation industry. Advised the Administrator and Deputy Administration on issues of aviation and other modes of transportation and represented the TSA in meetings with the White House, heads of other agencies, and foreign governments. Topic areas included airport security, MANPADS and US-VISIT. Also developed the customer service program for the 1.8M plus daily passengers including organizing and managing a partnership with over 50 stakeholders in the aviation industry.
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Education
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University of California, Berkeley
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Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs
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University High School
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