Leidos : Appoints Bill Kloes Vice President, Operations Integration
March 29, 2017 at 09:14 am EDT
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(Reston, Va.) March 29, 2017 - Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a global science and technology solutions leader, today announced the appointment of Bill Kloes as Vice President, Operations Integration for the Health Group, effective March 29. Kloes will report to Tom Aikens, Leidos Health President, Hospitals & Health Systems. In his role, Kloes will drive Leidos Health new business growth by bringing enterprise products and solution offerings to existing commercial customers. He will also be responsible for driving development and growth of these new and emerging offerings to positively impact patient care, patient safety, and hospital system efficiencies.
Prior to Leidos, Kloes served as VP, Healthcare Professional Services at Nuance Communications, Inc., where he was responsible for defining and executing on a comprehensive professional services and customer success strategy driving growth for the $1B Nuance Healthcare Division. He has also held senior management positions at McKesson Corporation including Vice President, Healthcare Professional services where he oversaw the $200M Managed Services business; Vice President, Professional Services, Health Systems Enterprise Solutions; and Vice President/General Manager of the Enterprise Imaging Group. Kloes holds a Bachelor of Science from Illinois State University.
'Bill has demonstrated expertise at developing, facilitating, and implementing high-tech healthcare strategies that drive business and generate growth,' said Leidos Health President, Hospitals & Health Systems, Tom Aikens. 'We expect Bill to bring an enduring value to our existing commercial customers.'
About Leidos
Leidos is a global science and technology solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 32,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $7.04 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2016. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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Leidos Holdings, Inc. specializes in the provision of engineering, technological and scientific services. Net sales by business segment break down as follows:
- defense (56.6%): design, engineering and integration of technological solutions for intelligence, airborne surveillance and reconnaissance, maritime and land-based solutions, electronic warfare systems, and automated sensor, alarm, command and control systems, software development, cyber security solutions and data processing and analysis solutions, IT infrastructure development and integration, etc.;
- civil security (23.7%): development and integration of solutions for the protection of goods, data and digital information, solutions and systems for air traffic flow control and flight data management, vehicle and cargo inspection, explosives and radiation detection, computer security, environmental management, nuclear security, complex logistics management, etc.;
- health (19.7%): integration of complex systems and technological infrastructures for the management of data, medical information and electronic health records, provision of healthcare services, IT systems lifecycle management, research and development of biopharmaceuticals, etc.
Net sales by market are divided between the US Department of Defense and the intelligence community (49.4%), government agencies (37.4%) and commercial customers (13.2%).
The United States accounts for 91,4% of net sales.
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