NextGen’s leadership team is comprised of distinguished executives who, together, combine top-level experience and advanced technical skills to lead a rapidly growing employee-centric company. By creating a positive company culture where career growth and team building are encouraged, our leadership team guides a field of talented professionals who can successfully meet the needs of diverse customers in the commercial, civilian, DoD, and intelligence markets.
Jay Reddy
Founder, CEOJay guides the company through rapid growth, elevating it to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies each year since 2016.
Chetan Desai
Senior Vice PresidentChetan Desai serves as NextGen Federal Systems’ Senior Vice President.
JP Lapps
Vice President of Federal InitiativesWith nearly two decades of business development experience, JP is responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships within the DoD.
David Bissett
Division ManagerAs NextGen Federal Systems’ Division Manager, Dave Bissett leads the capture, execution, and delivery of integrated software solutions for DoD and Space Systems customers.
Joe Robertson
Division ManagerJoe Robertson is a Division Manager at NextGen Federal Systems leading business development, operations, and program execution in Dayton, OH.
Jeremy Loomis
Chief Software ArchitectJeremy Loomis is the Principal Engineer Scientist at NextGen Federal Systems.
Jay Reddy
Founder, CEOJay guides the company through rapid growth, elevating it to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies each year since 2016. Prior to NextGen, Jay was Founder/CEO of ProLogic, Inc. and oversaw growth from a one-person company to more than 330 employees resulting in a successful merger. Jay was adjudged the WV Small Business Person of the Year and Minority Small Business Person of the Year by the US SBA. Jay is also leading activities to curb avoidable blindness around the world.
Chetan Desai
Senior Vice PresidentChetan Desai serves as NextGen Federal Systems’ Senior Vice President. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. During his career, he has served in various roles – including Lead GIS Developer, Program Manager, Chief Engineer/Scientist, Division Manager, General Manager, and Executive Vice President. Mr. Desai has been the Principal Investigator for several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and related research and development projects, such as weather exploitation for C2 impacts, LiDAR data management and visualization, hydrography distributed data management framework, and integration of DoD modeling and simulation and GIS data. He has provided solutions for a broad range of Federal Government customers including USAF, US Navy, US Army, US DOE, US DOT, and Intelligence Community.
JP Lapps
Vice President of Federal InitiativesWith nearly two decades of business development experience, JP is responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships within the DoD. Since becoming NextGen's first full-time employee in 2011, JP was instrumental in opening the company's first field office at APG, MD, capturing multiple contracts in support of the U.S. Army’s C5ISR community. JP's focus has grown to include new business development efforts in support of the DISA and Huntsville, Alabama's Redstone Arsenal. JP graduated from Salisbury University.
David Bissett
Division ManagerAs NextGen Federal Systems’ Division Manager, Dave Bissett leads the capture, execution, and delivery of integrated software solutions for DoD and Space Systems customers. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech. Prior to NextGen, he served as Director of Program Management for Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), a commercial software company for aerospace and defense applications. In this role, Dave was responsible for execution and delivery of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) software solutions. Dave has technical and domain experience across the several areas including: SSA, geographical information systems (GIS), modeling and simulation (M&S), software engineering and integration, program management, and business operations. He has and continues to provide solutions for US Government customers including US Army, US Air Force, NASA, and various Intelligence Community organizations.
Joe Robertson
Division ManagerJoe Robertson is a Division Manager at NextGen Federal Systems leading business development, operations, and program execution in Dayton, OH. He has over 30 years combined military and industry experience including 20 years’ of active duty in the US Air Force with assignments at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He previously joined ProLogic, Inc. in 2005 as a Program Manager and was later promoted to Division Manager where he led the general management of multiple technology programs supporting the DoD and Intelligence Community providing development, R&D, sustainment, and on-site support as both prime and subcontractor. Before joining NextGen he was most recently a Senior Program Manager for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS) managing their ATEP contract efforts supporting the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) GEOINT and MASINT mission areas.
Jeremy Loomis
Chief Software ArchitectJeremy Loomis is the Principal Engineer Scientist at NextGen Federal Systems. He provides technical direction for complex software solutions and internal research efforts, establishes engineering process and standards, leads the development of technical proposals, and provides guidance and mentoring across NextGen projects. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. Prior to NextGen, he served as Chief Software Engineer at ProLogic where he managed and led successful teams in the delivery of complex solutions using a variety of software engineering methods. He has experience with a wide range of technologies and domains, including systems engineering and requirements management; object-oriented analysis and design; computer graphics and data visualization; GIS and geospatial data models/algorithms; modeling and simulation; web-based, net-centric, service-oriented architectures; large data management; and cloud computing models. He has a demonstrated record of success in applying advanced technologies to meet the needs of diverse customers in commercial, civilian, DoD, and Intelligence markets.
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