Meet our founders

Challenging the current since day one

Briana Coleman

Briana is responsible for our corporate strategy and business development. She has led corporate operations for IT services companies up to 1,000+ employees/ $200M in revenue, with expertise in technical solution development, project analysis, and project management. As a senior leader, Briana has expertise supporting complex federal government IT services projects up to $1B in value, developing comprehensive professional development training programs, and leading departments with budgets in excess of $35M annually. Briana is a serial hobbyist who enjoys the process of mastering new skills more than the pursuit itself.

Kevin Ebberts

Kevin is responsible for our service offerings/overall project quality and oversees our Financial Regulatory & Federal Civilian Portfolio. He is a Systems Integration Specialist with expertise integrating with legacy mainframe systems, performing deep technical analysis to help clients prepare for modernization and incorporating human factors into system design. While technical, he has a passion for philosophy (metaphysics) and can come up with a metaphor/analogy for just about any complex topic. Kevin can fix or build anything and is a self-proclaimed snob when it comes to audio quality.

Tom Coleman

Tom is a programmatic expert in the functions of federal lending and subsidy programs, procurement law, and federal budgeting. He leads our Federal Credit portfolio of clients. He had a long career at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he was the CFO of the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) and Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Agents. Tom is a lawyer and economist by trade. In addition to managing work for our loan and grant portfolio, Tom is also our resident attorney and has a large hand in business development activities. He’s basically equal parts “corporate strategy” and “keep us out of court.” His biggest claim to fame is growing a beard before it was fashionable (2009). 

Meet our Board of Advisors

Robert Boakai

  • Mr. Boakai is a senior business and government contracting executive with more than 30 years' experience leading organizational growth, supporting mergers and acquisitions (M&A), P&L management, and delivering superior customer service.

    Robert’s expertise is developing business value through the development and delivery of information technology services and enterprise solutions in support of solving complex public sector problems. He is currently Vice President/Chief Operating Officer at Educology Solutions responsible for developing business strategies, guiding corporate growth, and driving and overseeing financial, contractual, and business operations.

    Robert has dedicated his career to helping government executives and leaders solve complex mission challenges. Since 1999, he has served in senior executive roles at ECCO Select, Digital Management, CACI, Paradigm Solutions, CSC, Datatrac, and JenXSystems, a company he founded in 1999. Prior, he served as a senior engineer and manager in the U.S. Intelligence Community where he was responsible for developing solutions in support of national security initiatives.

    He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, and an Executive Certificate in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management.

    As a founder, Robert is deeply committed to small business advocacy and spends a significant portion of his time mentoring small businesses. He is also a member of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Engineering Alumni and participates in a number of alumni events focused on mentorship activities for undergraduate and graduate students.

Ronna Rowe Garrett

  • Ms. Ronna Rowe Garrett is a Business Development Executive and Strategist and is the Director of Client Development for YRCI, a professional services firm in Fairfax, VA. Ronna currently serves as the Vice Industry Chair for American Council for Technology (ACT) and Industry Advisory Council (IAC), Evolving the Workforce Community of Interest and is also a member of the Shared Services Leadership Coalition.

    Since leaving government service, Ronna has retained interest and active involvement in the federal management policy and operations community by serving on boards, councils and coalitions influencing legislation on workforce policies, informing administration agendas, and infusing best industry and government practices through thought leadership venues.

    Ronna has extensive experience as a tri-sector leader, having led teams in non-profit, private and public industries. Ronna has an extensive career as a Human Capital Executive focused on legislative change and American workforce public policy. She has led world-wide federal agency business transformation and change through legislation, modernization of technology and business process improvements. Her efforts in public policy reform have fundamentally changed workforce performance cultures, and drove impactful business results in operational efficiencies and effective public policy. As the Department of Defense Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer, she co-chaired a Board of Human Capital and Business Transformation Senior Executive Members responsible for strategic human capital planning, legislative initiatives, policy development, technical program oversight, and human capital architecture and governance impacting a workforce of 950,000.

Brian Brennan

  • In his role, Brian is responsible for leading and elevating the company’s delivery performance with a strategic focus on customer satisfaction, optimizing program management practices, embedded base growth, effective financial management and scaling IT Services to support business expansion. Brian has over 20 years of progressive leadership experience executing and impacting federal IT missions in the public sector through executive leadership positions at Pragmatics, InfoZen, and Pyramid Systems.

    Brian earned his academic credentials through a bachelor’s degree from Ramapo College, a master’s degree from The George Washington University, and a graduate certificate from The MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the management of technology professionals. He is a member of the ACT-IAC Partner’s program, class of 2015.

    Brian’s personal passions include the study of History, rooting for the Washington Nationals in good times and bad, mentoring developing leaders, and finding any situation where he can apply business and organizational experience to help others succeed in their goals.