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NVTC Launches New Strategic Plan and Elects Board Leadership at 35th Annual Meeting

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Council unveils new mission, vision, and strategic priorities to position Northern Virginia to lead the next era of innovation

MCLEAN, Va., June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the trade association representing the region’s technology community, unveiled a new strategic plan and elected new Board leadership during its 35th Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday, June 25th.

The new strategic plan comes at a defining moment for the technology industry as artificial intelligence, including agentic AI, cybersecurity, cloud and edge networks, mobility, robotics, space, and other emerging technologies reshape the global economy. Northern Virginia stands at the center of this transformation and is well positioned to lead the next era of innovation.

“Innovation doesn’t stand still—and neither does NVTC,” said Jennifer Taylor, president and CEO of NVTC. “Our ambitious strategic plan positions NVTC for its next chapter of impact and reinforces our commitment to helping Northern Virginia lead in this next era of innovation. We’ve done it before, and we will again.”

For 35 years, NVTC has brought together leaders from business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector through major waves of technological change—from the rise of the internet to today’s advances in artificial intelligence. The refreshed strategic plan builds upon that legacy while positioning the organization for its next chapter of impact.

NVTC’s mission is to convene and champion the region’s technology community to advance innovation, build a future-ready workforce, and drive lasting economic and societal impact. Guided by its vision to fuel innovation that shapes the future, NVTC will focus on four strategic priorities over the next three years: Network—convening the region’s technology ecosystem; Voice—championing the technology community; Talent—advancing a future-ready workforce; and Cultivate—deepening engagement and delivering exceptional member value.

The successful implementation of this strategy will be guided by NVTC’s Board of Directors and leadership team, who welcomed new directors and officers during the Annual Membership Meeting.

During the meeting, NVTC members elected 20 industry leaders to the Class of 2029 Board of Directors, filled two vacancies in the Class of 2028, and elected nine FY2027 Chair Appointees. The Board also elected its FY2027 Officers for a two-year term, including Gil Dussek, CEO of Gunnison, as Chair. These incoming Board members and officers will help guide implementation of the strategic plan and advance NVTC’s strategic priorities over the next three years.

“As we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to our next chapter, I am honored to serve as Chair at such a pivotal moment for our region and our organization,” said Dussek. “Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the accelerating pace of technological change are transforming every sector of our economy, creating extraordinary opportunities for Northern Virginia to lead. I look forward to working alongside our Board, members, and partners to advance the region’s innovation ecosystem and ensure Northern Virginia remains the nation’s premier technology hub.”

FY2027 Officers

The Board elected the following FY2027 officers for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2026:

Chair: Gil Dussek, CEO, Gunnison

President & CEO: Jennifer Taylor, Northern Virginia Technology Council

Chair Elect: Mile Corrigan, CEO, Noblis

Vice Chair: Jennifer Felix, CEO, ASRC Federal

Vice President: Tim Borchert, CEO, Tria Federal

Vice President: Rick Tossavainen, CEO, Dark Wolf

Treasurer: Melinda Covert, Partner, Deloitte

Secretary: Chad Fredrick, President, PEAC US Capital

General Counsel: Ellen Grady, Partner, Pillsbury

Culture Officer: Gregory Washington, President, George Mason University

Class of 2029

The NVTC membership elected the following individuals to the Board of Directors for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2026:

Mark Andersen, BDO

Dara Castle, RSM

Greg Fairchild, UVA Northern Virginia

Margie Graves, IBM

Kevin Gundersen, Digital Realty

Kavita Kalatur, NetImpact Strategies

Bo Machayo, Micron Technology

Manish Malhotra, Unissant

T.J. Maloney, AWS

Marc Marlin, KippsDeSanto

Cameron Mayer, Booz Allen

Richard Pineda, CALIBRE Systems

Krystal Putman-Garcia, Casepoint

Brian Roach, Adobe

Pamela Rothka, Empower AI

Timothy Sands, Virginia Tech

James Schmidt, James Madison University

Anil Sharma, 22nd Century Technologies

Eric Trexler, Palo Alto Networks

Joe Woomer, Dominion Energy

Class of 2028

The membership also elected the following individuals to fill vacancies in the Class of 2028:

Gerald Kierce, Trustible

Scott Ryan, xAI

FY2027 Chair Appointees

The following FY2027 Chair Appointees were elected to a one-year term:

Dayne Baird, Carlyle

Phil Carrai, Kratos

Cliff Chiet, iHeartMedia

Susan Hawkins, Amentum

Brian Krause, Clark Construction

Lorraine Lavet, Korn Ferry John Mengucci, CACI International Inc

Shawn Purvis, Sabel Systems

Matt Strottman, IQT

The elections were held during NVTC’s 2026 Annual Membership Meeting, where members received an overview of NVTC’s refreshed strategic plan and heard from former Acting Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency David Shedd, author of The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets, on the intersection of technology, innovation, and global competitiveness.

The NVTC Board of Directors brings together leaders from the region’s most influential technology companies, government contractors, universities, and innovation organizations. Their collective expertise helps shape NVTC’s advocacy efforts, strategic initiatives, and programs that support the continued growth of the region’s technology economy.

About the Northern Virginia Technology Council

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) convenes and champions the region’s tech community to advance innovation, build a future-ready workforce, and drive economic and societal impact. Representing one of the world’s most dynamic technology ecosystems, NVTC connects leaders across business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector to foster collaboration, strengthen competitiveness, and accelerate innovation. Through advocacy, networking, workforce initiatives, and strategic partnerships, NVTC helps fuel innovation that shapes the future. Learn more at nvtc.org.

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Quantifind Announces $200 Million Growth Investment Led by Summit Partners to Advance AI-native Risk Intelligence and Governed Agentic Middleware for Modern Risk Operations

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PALO ALTO, Calif., June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Quantifind, the leader in AI-native Risk Intelligence for modern financial crime and national security operations, today announced a $200 million growth investment led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors Citi Ventures, S&P Global, Deloitte, and Stephens Group.

As financial crime networks become more sophisticated and operate at increasing speed and scale, financial institutions and government agencies face growing challenges in detecting illicit activity across massive volumes of data while meeting increasingly complex regulatory expectations. Legacy AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and investigative systems can generate excessive false positives, creating operational bottlenecks that slow investigations, create friction for good actors, and divert resources from higher-risk threats.

Quantifind’s Graphyte™ AI-native Risk Intelligence platform is designed to transform financial crime prevention by combining internal and external data with purpose-built language models that power an agentic middleware for entity resolution and risk discovery. Today, Quantifind serves a global customer base, including six of the world’s top 10 Tier 1 financial institutions. Its platform supports tens of thousands of financial crime, compliance and national security professionals.

Operationalizing Graphyte’s Trusted Risk Intelligence for External Agents

As financial institutions and government agencies deploy agentic AI, they face a new challenge: turning AI agents from assistants into trusted operators within risk workflows — a leap that no AI agents can make without trusted intelligence, enterprise controls, and governance. Graphyte Agentic Middleware represents a new generation of agentic AI systems for financial crime detection and response. Designed to help AI agents execute complex workflows across risk operations, it is a critical orchestration layer that helps agents to ground decisions in accurate, explainable, and auditable data.

By aggregating internal, third-party, and open-source data and applying AI entity resolution and relationship intelligence, Graphyte Agentic Middleware enables AI agents to accelerate investigations, uncover hidden networks, and support high-confidence decisions at enterprise scale, all while preserving regulatory compliance, governance, and human oversight.

“Modern financial crime operations require accuracy, speed, scale, and explainability simultaneously — there is no acceptable tradeoff among them in regulated environments,” said Ari Tuchman, CEO and co-founder of Quantifind. “As AI transforms risk operations, success will depend on governed AI systems grounded in trusted intelligence and human oversight. Quantifind continues to be the trusted choice for these AI risk applications.”

Accelerating Global Growth and Customer Impact

Quantifind has generated rapid, profitable growth and has demonstrated an ability to deliver measurable operational and economic impact at enterprise scale. An independent Celent economic analysis estimated that Tier 1 banks deploying Quantifind’s Graphyte™ AI-native Risk Intelligence platform across KYC and sanctions screening alone could reduce annual alert-processing costs by up to $177.9 million, driven by substantially lower false positives and higher-confidence risk decisions.

This growth investment will accelerate Quantifind’s international expansion across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, strengthening regional partnerships, advancing regulatory alignment, and extending localized risk intelligence capabilities to help multinational financial institutions and government agencies combat increasingly sophisticated financial crime and adapt to evolving global regulatory requirements.

“Quantifind has established itself as a leader in AI-native Risk Intelligence, a category rapidly becoming fundamental for financial institutions and government agencies,” said Chris Dean, Managing Director at Summit Partners, who has joined the Quantifind Board of Directors. “The Quantifind platform is designed to combine high-precision intelligence, explainability, and enterprise-grade scalability to help financial institutions, fintechs, and marketplaces detect and prevent financial crime with precision and speed. We are excited to partner with Ari and the team as they work to extend their global reach and continue advancing trusted AI infrastructure for regulated risk environments.”

“The financial crime landscape has fundamentally changed. Global institutions face an unprecedented challenge: managing increasingly sophisticated threats across expanding volumes of data, transactions and interconnected entities. Quantifind has built a differentiated AI-native risk intelligence platform designed to bring greater accuracy, speed and scale to these mission-critical operations. We are excited to continue supporting the company as it accelerates its global growth and category leadership,” said Vibhor Rastogi, Managing Director at Citi Ventures.

About Quantifind

Quantifind is the leader in AI-native Risk Intelligence for modern risk operations. We deliver purpose-built solutions that transform how financial institutions and government agencies detect, assess, and mitigate financial crime and national security threats — including the complex networks that enable illicit finance, corruption, sanctions evasion, trafficking, and terrorism.

The Graphyte™ AI-native Risk Intelligence Platform unifies internal, third-party, and open-source data into a single, high-accuracy risk intelligence system powered by advanced entity resolution, Name Science™, dynamic risk typologies, and real-time network graph intelligence.

For more information, visit www.quantifind.com.

About Summit Partners

Summit Partners is a global growth equity firm that invests across growth sectors of the economy and, since the firm’s founding in 1984, has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and seeks to invest in category-leading, profitable growth companies worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or follow Summit Partners on LinkedIn.

Media Contact: Annalisa Camarillo, CMO Contact@quantifind.com

 

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Finance and AI Executive Patrick Fleury to Join Corvex Board of Directors as Company Scales AI Cloud Infrastructure Platform and Prepares to Launch Token Factory

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TeraWulf CFO brings deep expertise across data center transactions, energy-advantaged digital infrastructure campuses, and large-scale capital formation

ARLINGTON, Va., June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Corvex, Inc. (Nasdaq:MOVE), an engineering-led AI computing platform specializing in GPU-accelerated infrastructure for AI workloads, today announced the appointment of Patrick A. Fleury to its Board of Directors, upon election at the Company’s upcoming annual meeting.

Fleury currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of TeraWulf Inc. (Nasdaq:WULF), a publicly traded developer, owner and operator of environmentally sustainable, industrial-scale data center infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing.

Fleury will join Corvex at a pivotal moment following its recent public listing, as the Company scales its AI infrastructure platform and prepares to launch its token factory business. Corvex’s model, combining contracted demand, flexible access to power, proprietary software to optimize workload performance and security, and disciplined capital formation, requires deep expertise across infrastructure development, capital markets, and governance. Fleury brings direct experience across each of these areas, having helped lead a similar transition at TeraWulf.

Since joining TeraWulf in 2022, shortly after that company’s own reverse-merger debut, Fleury has led over $8 billion dollars of financings to support the company’s data center infrastructure build-out and its expansion into AI and high-performance computing hosting. His experience scaling a power-focused, newly public compute platform directly parallels Corvex’s current phase of growth, where aligning infrastructure deployment with customer demand and capital availability is critical.

Fleury has more than 25 years of experience across capital markets, credit investing, and corporate finance. Prior to TeraWulf, he was a founding member of the credit investing team at Platinum Equity and a Managing Director at Blackstone’s GSO Capital Partners (now Blackstone Credit), where he focused on energy and infrastructure credit. He began his career in the Global Energy & Power investment banking group at Bank of America Securities and has held senior roles at Jefferies and Satellite Asset Management. He has also served as a director of CVR Partners LP and as a board observer at Rentech, Inc., bringing public company governance experience through complex strategic transactions.

“Corvex sits at the intersection of AI compute, power infrastructure, and capital, and Patrick has spent his career structuring and scaling exactly these systems,” said Jay Crystal, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Corvex. “He brings a rare combination of experience across data center transactions—from powered land acquisition through structured leases—as well as deep capital markets expertise at scale. As we expand our AI infrastructure platform and continue to invest in our proprietary software capabilities, his perspective will be invaluable in helping guide disciplined, capital-efficient growth.”

“The next phase of AI infrastructure will be defined by platforms that can deliver both performance and trust at scale,” said Fleury. “Corvex has built a differentiated model that combines flexible access to power, long-term customer alignment, and a software-driven approach to optimizing workload performance and enabling secure compute through confidential computing. Paired with a disciplined approach to capital formation across both corporate and project-level structures, this model positions Corvex to scale efficiently while maintaining control over execution.”

Fleury holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics and Government and Legal Studies from Bowdoin College. He will serve as an independent director and will join the Audit Committee.

About Corvex
Corvex is an AI cloud computing company specializing in GPU-accelerated infrastructure for AI workloads. Corvex’s platform integrates proprietary software, including confidential computing and workload optimization tools, to enhance security, performance, and capital efficiency across its infrastructure. By combining advanced compute, flexible power strategies, and disciplined capital formation, Corvex enables organizations to deploy AI workloads at scale with consistency and efficiency.

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corvex.media@stillpointglobaladvisors.com

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Remote Partners with isolved to Unlock Compliant Global Hiring for 200,000+ US Employers

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Embedded directly in isolved People Cloud, Remote’s Employer of Record will enable international expansion by eliminating the complexity that slows growth

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Remote, the global payroll and employment infrastructure company, today announced its partnership with isolved®, a provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions that help organizations recruit, retain and elevate their workforce. Through this partnership, isolved will launch an Employer of Record offering, powered by Remote directly within isolved People Cloud™. This will enable its network of 200,000+ customers to hire, manage, and pay international employees without local entity setup, manual compliance work, or fragmentation across multiple systems.

Businesses expanding across borders often must juggle fragmented data and disconnected workflows across multiple systems to hire and pay their international teams. This can create bottlenecks that slow hiring, increase operational overhead, and drain resources. As organizations increasingly compete for global talent, the ability to hire and scale internationally has become critical to growth, yet the operational reality of international employment remains unnecessarily complex.

Through this partnership, isolved customers can hire and pay international employees directly from their HCM platform. Remote handles the operational complexity – entity setup, ongoing compliance management, local regulations, and payroll – eliminating the need to switch systems or manage legal requirements across jurisdictions. This means companies can respond to global market opportunities without the operational friction that usually slows international expansion.

“Global business expansion demands a choice most companies should not have to make: keep their trusted HR platform or gain world-class compliance and hiring infrastructure,” said Pim Altena, General Manager, Remote Embedded and Vice President, Technology Partnerships at Remote. “We’re excited to partner with isolved as together, we’re eliminating that choice. isolved customers can now get both: employment infrastructure embedded directly in their platform, delivering global hiring and compliance without switching, compromise, or complexity.”

“Our customers want to expand globally, but the operational reality of doing so has held them back. Our partnership with Remote solves that,” said Barry Gauch, Executive Vice President of Marketplace and Benefits of isolved. “Upon completion of the integration later this year this will be bringing Remote’s Employer of Record directly into isolved People Cloud, we’re removing the technical and compliance barriers that have made international hiring unnecessarily difficult. It’s about giving our customers the tools to execute their growth plans.”

Learn more about Remote at www.remote.com.

About Remote: Remote is the intelligent infrastructure for employing and paying people everywhere. Trusted by tens of thousands of companies worldwide, Remote handles the compliance, payments, and legal complexity of global employment country by country, from Employer of Record and Global Payroll to PEO and Contractor Management. Open and programmable, Remote’s infrastructure supports any tool, agent, or workflow a company chooses to build on top of it. Learn more at www.remote.com.

About isolved®: isolved® is a Workforce Capital Management company — the next evolution of HCM, where human workers and AI agents are governed together on a single system of record, with the same visibility, accountability and lifecycle management. isolved People Cloud™ is a connected platform of action that brings together HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management and talent management, with practical AI built to own outcomes: catching payroll errors before they happen, guiding employees through benefits enrollment, and surfacing compliance risks before they become problems. Built on 40 years of benefits-first HCM expertise and trusted by more than 200,000 employers and 9 million U.S. employees, isolved is the platform of action for the businesses that drive the American economy. Visit www.isolvedhcm.com.

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