Mr. Jay Kovacs is the Chief Innovation Officer. Mr. Kovacs is responsible for developing and overseeing Axient’s long-term growth and innovation strategy to expand the company’s discriminating capabilities. From 2021-2023, Mr. Kovacs was Senior Vice President of Growth Strategies and worked directly for Axient’s Chief Growth Officer, Dan Deans. As Senior Vice President of Growth Strategies, Mr. Kovacs led strategy development and technical solutioning, as well as provided subject matter expertise across the company’s top strategic pursuits. In his previous role and in his Chief Innovation Officer role, he leads innovations and solutioning for strategic technical capabilities across Axient, including Axient’s Digital Engineering and Data Analytics practices.
Mr. Kovacs has over 35 years of experience in technical leadership roles at KBR, former SGT, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric. Mr. Kovacs’s technical expertise spans systems and software engineering practices, CMMI, digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, and systems architecture. Corporately, he has led strategy development, research and development, business development, strategic capture, and programs across the commercial, civil, defense, scientific, and academic communities.
Mr. Kovacs is based in Axient’s Arlington, VA office and is also President of the Pennsylvania State Graduate School Alumni Society (GSAS) Board of Directors. He is a Penn State Alumni Fellow and an INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional.