GovConRx Founder and CEO

Ken Susskind formed GovConRx LLC to promote federal contract wellness, advance public-private partnerships, and foster mission success by providing proactive contract performance management solutions to federal government contractors. Ken is an innovative business development professional who has successfully produced $100 million+ results for corporations in the government contracting and commercial sectors. He brings over 35 years of experience and proven track record of successfully developing and maintaining strong contractor-government partnerships, building corporate and team capabilities, and maintaining solid customer relationships.

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GovConRx Executive Vice President

Michael Smith retired from the Federal Government in the Senior Executive Service with over 34 years of federal acquisition experience in contracting, program management, and logistics, and is recognized across the Government as a true innovator and transformational leader. He was a former Head of Contracting Activity and Director of Strategic Sourcing at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Michael also served as the Executive Director of the DHS Office of Selective Acquisitions (OSA) within the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO) where he led the execution of classified and sensitive acquisitions for several DHS customers across the headquarters and component organizations.

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GovConRx Executive Vice President

Katherine Valltos served 34 years in federal service as a former Operational Contracting Officer and Senior Acquisition Executive. She retired in 2017 from the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Acquisition Management Directorate which is a full-service acquisition center serving not only the DOI but all other federal agencies. Katherine co-founded the Interior’s GovWorks organization which later merged into the DOI Office of the Secretary, Interior Business Center. Inter-Agency contracting provided her the unique opportunity to reach across governmental boundaries to serve a diverse and dynamic client-base of over 50 federal agencies including both the DoD and civilian agencies.

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GovConRx Senior Vice President

Jim Fisher is a highly motivated and creative acquisition professional with a 35-year record of results with public and private sector experience in all phases of Federal procurement. Jim provides advice and support in the areas of acquisition management, strategic planning, performance measures, benchmarking and process improvement. He has focused on improving the quality and performance of acquisition organizations, processes and best practices at several federal agencies, including Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and at numerous companies.

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GovConRx Senior Acquisition Specialist

Kamalu Tinnell (“KT”) spent over 40 plus years in federal service specializing in the Acquisition Career field. She has extensive experience as a former Operational Contracting Officer and Agreements Officer both with unlimited authority spanning a wide variety of types of procurement instruments. Kamalu was co-founder of a fee-for-service business model for the Army which eventually obtained a new parent organization within the Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of the Secretary, National Business Center (NBC) (now named the Interior Business Center (IBC)) with a portfolio of $2.1 Billion. At IBC, Kamalu became the principal contracting advisor and senior subject matter expert liaison to agency senior management, program management offices, customers/clients, and other agency contracting offices.

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