Zal Azmi

Mr. Azmi is the President and Chief Operation Officer for IMTAS, Inc. He offers more than 30 years of leadership experience and demonstrated success in the development, nurturing, program management, performance management, organizational maturity, and operational integration of advanced technology systems and solutions to meet a variety of enterprise modernization needs. In his current role he is responsible for the overall growth strategy and operations that include business development, program execution, financial management, M&A, and public/private sector customer relationships. Mr. Azmi was the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer for Nexus Solutions LLC a certified Woman Owned Small Business. Nexus Solutions is a consulting company dedicated to excellence in cybersecurity and is focused on technical capabilities and security services in cybers domain, organizational transformation, executive mentoring, and supporting the critical infrastructure. Mr. Azmi has extensive hands-on experience in conducting cyber security assessments and in developing the getwell plan to ensure clients’ projects portfolio addresses current and future cybersecurity risks. Before Nexus Solutions LLC, Mr. Azmi was a Senior Vice President at CACI International. He was primarily responsible for the Cyberspace Security Solutions and services that support the full life cycle of preparing for, protecting against, detecting, reacting to and actively responding to the full range of cyber threats. He established The Cyberspace Solutions Group and focused on support to Defense, Intelligence, Diplomatic, and Homeland Security organizations. In less than 4 years his portfolio grew to more than $50M in cybersecurity programs and over $300M in IT security programs. In Addition to more than a decade of private sector experience, Mr. Azmi brings more than 25 years of government service experience in DoD, DoJ, DoC, and Intelligence Community where he held leadership and management positions. In his last 10 years in the government, he served as the CIO for United States Attorneys (2000-2004) and the FBI (2004-2009) where he established the Chief Information Officer (CIO) organizations, information assurance and cybersecurity programs, program management, portfolio and asset management capabilities and completely modernized the information technology infrastructures to support the investigation, litigation, and domestics intelligence missions of the Department. As the CIO for the FBI he managed an operational budget of $1.3B annually. Mr. Azmi was a member of the Intelligence Community and the DOJ CIO Councils. He also traveled to Europe and the Middle East to collaborate with Law Enforcement counterparts on related technology projects and capabilities. He was an active member of the Five Eyes CIO council. Mr. Azmi has received several prestigious awards including the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive Award, the President G.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counter Terrorism Support, the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Excellence in Applied Science and Technology, Federal 100 award, two Bronze medals from the Department of Commerce, and numerous military service medals. Mr. Azmi is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University, a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), a member of the Air Force Communication and Electronic Association’s (AFCEA) Cyber and Intelligence Committees, a member of Intelligence and National Security Association’s (INSA) Cyber Council, IEEE, and several other industry associations. Mr. Azmi holds a Master of Science degree in Management Information Systems from George Washington University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from American University, and has completed his Executive and Leadership studies at Kellogg School of Management and Federal Executive Institute.