Leadership

Tony Smeraglinolo has over 30 years of experience driving transformation and customer-centric growth strategies within the Government Services industry. Most recently, Mr. Smeraglinolo was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Engility Corporation (NYSE: EGL), a $2.1 billion leading provider of best-in-class training capabilities, specialized technical consulting, program and business support services, engineering and technology lifecycle support, and supply chain and logistics management services. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer after leading the spin-off of Engility from L-3 in 2012.

Mr. Smeraglinolo's tenure at Engility was defined by shareholder value creation through portfolio diversification with strategic M&A, and growth through relentless focus on customers and solving their most complex problems. Engility initially was a $1.6 billion business with an anticipated $500 million draw-down and an 80% dependence on the Department of Defense. Mr. Smeraglinolo led the strategy to diversify the customer portfolio and pivot the company to a higher-end enduring service model. He introduced price-disruptive service offerings, new product offerings, and led the acquisitions and integrations of DRC, a $250 million public company with a civilian market concentration, and TASC, a $1.1 billion company with 75% of its business supporting the Intel agencies. Mr. Smeraglinolo's strategy transformed Engility into a top five service company that derives greater than 50% of its business from Civil and INTEL markets and drove a 66% growth in revenue and a 300% increase in share price. Engility was ranked 30th in Washington Technology's Top 100 largest contractors in the government market place and in recognition for the successful transformation Mr. Smeraglinolo was awarded the Deal Maker of the Year award from the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), named to The Washington 100 by Executive Mosaic, and received GovCon's Executive of the Year for Companies greater than $300M.

Prior to the spin-off, Mr. Smeraglinolo was the Executive Vice President of the $4 billion L-3 Services Group, and Acting President, Command & Control Systems and Software division, L-3 Services Group. He was responsible for driving the two year strategy leading to the spin-off of L-3's six government services business units to form Engility in July 2012.

Mr. Smeraglinolo began his career at Harris Corporation where he held roles of increasing responsibility across finance, program management, business development and operations during his 25 year career with the organization. Following Harris Corporation, he served as President of the L-3 Services Group's Intelligence Solutions Division for three years before he was recruited to be President of the Global Stabilization and Development Solutions division for Dyncorp International.

Most recently. Mr. Smeraglinolo joined Sincerus's Board of Advisors as the Chairman, a company that he co-founded and delivers sustainable solutions that enable integrated capabilities across multiple domains addressing global conflict, stability and security challenges.

Smeraglinolo earned his Master of Business Administration in Finance from Florida Institute of Technology and his Bachelor's degree in Business Management, with a minor in Accounting, from Fairfield University in Connecticut.

Jason Biber is the Chief Financial Officer at Sincerus Global Solutions, Inc.  Jason oversees the financial management, accounting and audit reports, business strategy, and treasury of domestic and international operations of the company.   

His experience combines strategic thinking to maximize a company’s capital strategy for sustainable growth, oversight in implementing government contracts to drive and achieve customers’ results, and collaborations to catalyze investments with international partners.   

Most recently, Jason served as Sincerus Global Solutions, Inc.’s Vice President of Business Operations as well as the Director of Operations for SAIC.  At SAIC, Jason was responsible for day-to-day operations and optimizing the company’s programmatic financial performance.    

Throughout his 15-year career in finance, accounting and program management, Jason held various positions at Booz Allen Hamilton, TASC, Inc./Engility, and Engility/SAIC. 

Jason is a graduate of George Mason University School of Business in Finance with a minor in Economics.

Eric Sedlacek, is a business development leader with a demonstrated track record in leading and delivering large international contract wins, developing high impact organizational growth strategies and improving business development systems at the firm level. 

As Vice President of Business Development, Eric oversees the company’s business development, capture, proposals, strategy, market analysis, external relations, and communications functions. 

Augmented through direct implementation experience overseas, Eric approaches activity design and program delivery frameworks through the skilled lens of a practitioner. He is a results-focused, data-driven and a critical-thinking leader. He excels at unpacking and delivering solutions to some of the most formidable development challenges-centering upon stabilization, rule of law, countering violent extremism, political transitions and economic growth initiatives in conflict and post-conflict environments. His professional field experience includes work in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Republic of Georgia, Moldova, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Nepal. 

Prior to joining Sincerus Global Solutions, Eric was the Director of Business Development for SAIC’s International Services Business. Preceding SAIC, he held various positions within the Engility growth organization, concentrating on federal civilian agencies. Prior to the aforementioned role within Engility, Eric spent over 5 years working with an international development firm focused on USAID, MCC and USDA. He is formally trained in industry best practices including Shipley and MBDi business development methodologies. 

Eric completed the Harvard Negotiation Intensive at the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School in 2018 and was selected as a 2016 Abshire-Inamori International Fellow (AIF) within the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) flagship professional leadership program. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Ron Corkran, Vice President for Programs, leads SGS’s support to three Department of State and one Department of Justice program. Two of these programs support Africa Peacekeeping, one providing global advisory services (in security sector reform), The Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI, formerly ACOTA), Africa Peacekeeping (AFRICAP), and the Global Defense Reform Program (GDRP).

Ron has extensive international experience with a focus in Africa. From 2007 until 2015, he served as a ‘Country Manager’ (contractor) for the ACOTA program, predominantly in Uganda, but also Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Gabon, and Djibouti. That experience centered on planning, preparing, executing, and continually improving pre-deployment training for UN and AU peacekeeping missions across Africa. Since 2015, he served at the Program and Directorate level for Engility and SAIC based in DC. In these roles he has worked to share experiences and best practices between the programs to build host nation capacity and capability in security sector reform and peacekeeping operations.

Prior to his Africa journey, Ron led multiple training teams for MPRI, where he deployed repetitively to Kuwait (Camps Buehring and Arifjan) and Afghanistan (Camps Spann and Bagram AB). In multiple leadership roles, he prepared and executed training for US and Afghan forces preparing for combat operations. His major tasks during that time were training Urban Operations skills for platoons and companies and battle-staff operations at the battalion and brigade level with a particular emphasis on counterinsurgency and the counter-IED fight.

Before his private sector days, Ron served as an Infantry Officer in the US Army. Over 21 years, he successfully led Mechanized, Light, Airborne, and Air Assault Infantry units, in positions of increasing responsibility. On ‘9/11’, he was in command of the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division and led his battalion into combat operations in Afghanistan in 2001-2002. His service also included extensive experience at the Joint Readiness Training Center and a two year exchange tour with the Australian Army. Ron is a Combat and Expert infantryman with Ranger, Master Parachutist, Pathfinder, Air Assault, and Australian parachute qualifications. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with ‘Valor’ device, and the Bronze Star Medal.

Ron’s education includes a MBA from Norwich University, graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Mississippi. Ron is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Scrum Master.

Ron presently lives in the Northern Virginia area with his wife Betsy. Their two grown children live in Columbus, Ohio and Sydney, Australia.

Chris Forbes, our Director of Advising and Mentoring, leads Sincerus's support to two Department of State programs. Through the Global Advisory Support Services, he manages senior advisors and mentors in 18 countries across the globe who provide key U.S. partner ministries of defense with strategic advisory support. These advisory efforts focus on developing partner institutional capacity in areas such as national security strategy development, national defense strategy development, PPBE and acquisition process development, HRM reform, cybersecurity strategy and policy, maritime strategy, and policy, multi domain awareness, and IG reform. Additionally, he provides advisors and mentors who assist key partners with the development of their UAS capacity, Maritime Logistics and Maintenance capacity, Border Security and C-IED programs.

Chris has over 10 years of experience serving as an advisor and mentor with partner nations at the operational and strategic levels and mentoring at the tactical level. Throughout his career he has worked in over 40 different countries working extensively with partner nations and their defense institutional capacity development.

Before joining Sincerus, Chris served honorably as a U.S. Army infantry officer for over 31 years retiring as a colonel in 2018. Throughout his years in the Army, Chris led and commanded at the platoon through the brigade level in both infantry and armor formations. He served on staff at every level from battalion to corps, and at the U.S. Department of Defense Agency level and on the White House staff. He served on four combat deployments and also conducted operational deployments to Sinai, Egypt (Multi-National Force and Observers), the Republic of Haiti (UN Mission in Haiti), and Jerusalem, Israel (U.S. Security Coordinator Mission in Palestine).

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from the University of South Carolina, a Master of Science degree in Administration from Central Michigan University, a Master of Arts and Military Science degree in Theater and Operational Planning from the School of Advanced Military Studies, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He also served as a Chief of Staff of the Army / Senior Army Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Sueann Ramsey joined Sincerus in January 2022 after serving the United States Army for 29+ years. She is a proactive leader and collaborative partner with a proven track record in leading multiple and complex programs while forging valuable relationships with various stakeholders and customers worldwide. She leads multidisciplinary teams focused on capacity building and training that enhance the capabilities and capacities of partner nation militaries to support peacekeeping operations and respond to current and emerging terrorist threats.

She is the Project Manager for two major Africa Peacekeeping Program (AFRICAP) Task Orders, delivering Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Combat Lifesaver (CLS) training and equipment to Partner Nation militaries in Mozambique, Djibouti, and Ghana. The TCCC training teaches life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care for battlefield casualties and the CLS training teaches immediate lifesaving techniques to non-medical personnel who may have received some basic first aid but no formal medical training. Through Sueann's leadership, the training team for the AFRICAP TCCC Task Order, in collaboration with the medical leaders of the Mozambique and Djibouti militaries, successfully established the first National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) Training Center in each of their respective countries and can train and certify students in TCCC through their authorized NAEMT Training Center.

Sueann graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She earned a Master of Public Administration from Troy State University in Dothan, Alabama and a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.