Paul Cofoni, President and CEO, CACI International

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Paul Cofoni

Paul M. Cofoni (CACI International Inc) – responsibilities include executing CACI’s strategy to align its core competencies, innovative tools and best value solutions to help the U.S. government solve its most important problems in protecting our nation and winning the global war on terrorism. His vision for CACI’s future is for the company to play an ever expanding role as a national asset, serving as its customers’ preferred integrator and IT provider for their critical missions.

Under Mr. Cofoni’s guidance, CACI has broadened its penetration of the federal marketplace, with special emphasis on further integrating CACI capabilities into homeland security, the Intelligence Community and communications activities of the federal government. Mr. Cofoni has played a key leadership role in developing CACI’s ability to compete for large scale contracts at the highest levels of government service. He has overseen the growth of CACI solutions to support critical infrastructure, help clients collect and analyze information that is vital to the protection of our nation and our forces, and enable the secure communication of that information to key decision makers. His responsibilities also include managing CACI’s corporate development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) program in direct partnership with CACI’s Executive Chairman Dr. J.P. (Jack) London.

Most recently, Mr. Cofoni served as CACI’s President of U.S. Operations, where he had primary responsibility for all of the company’s domestic, federal and state, and local markets. Under his guidance CACI’s U.S.-based operations provided a wide range of innovative technical and valuable support services to the U.S. government.

Mr. Cofoni has more than 30 years of senior level executive experience in business development, M&A, strategic planning and extensive federal market operations. His professional experience includes large scale integrator contracts in the broad federal market sector; the defense, intelligence and communications markets; and major commercial outsourcing and systems markets.

Prior to joining CACI, Mr. Cofoni was President, Federal Sector, of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). One of the largest systems integrators for federal government agencies, CSC’s Federal Sector contracts included numerous aerospace, defense and intelligence systems applications and services. Federal Sector revenues under Mr. Cofoni exceeded $5B in 2005. Before this, Mr. Cofoni enjoyed a 17-year career with General Dynamics in a number of assignments from 1974 to 1991, when his business unit was acquired by CSC. At General Dynamics, he served as VP of Information Technology services for both east and west coast business units.

Mr. Cofoni also served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1974. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island in 1970 and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School program for senior executives in the fall of 1989. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the Professional Services Council.

from http://www.caci.com/about/management.shtml#Paul_M._Cofoni

Interview Air Date: September 26, 2007