Speakers
Rodney Hunt
Rodney P. Hunt is owner and founder of RS Information Systems, Inc. (RSIS), a mission-oriented business focused on information technology, systems engineering, information assurance, telecommunications, and scientific services and solutions.
Since founding RSIS in 1992, Mr. Hunt has led the company through a period of uninterrupted growth, with a professional staff that now numbers over 1,500 and annual revenues in excess of nearly $300 million. The company, based in McLean, Va., is the 35 th largest federal contractor of technology services in the country, according to Washington Technology. It is the 12 th largest African American-owned company in the country and largest in the Virginia-Washington-D.C. area, according to Black Enterprise.
As Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hunt is responsible for the overall executive leadership of RSIS, to include business affairs, strategic planning and mission success. Mr. Hunt provides the strategic leadership that ensures RSIS will continue to be a successful organization, and a strong business partner.
Mr. Hunt was named the 2005 Small Business Champion of the Year by U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Washington Metropolitan Area District. The SBA cited his “hard work, expertise and commitment” to small businesses. And in July of 2006, he was honored by the U.S. Department of Energy for his work in helping small businesses develop as viable federal contractors.
Under his leadership, RSIS mentors a growing number of small businesses and gives many small firms subcontracting opportunities on RSIS government contracts. In addition, Mr. Hunt is a popular draw as a speaker at small business conferences where he offers encouragement and guidance to minority- and women-owned firms seeking to carve out a position for themselves in the federal IT marketplace.
A small business joint venture he formed was awarded a $1 billion technology services contract by the U.S. Department of Energy in November of 2005.
In 2006, Mr. Hunt received the Northern Virginia Urban League Diversity Award for his commitment to diversity in the workplace and business partnerships, and Virginia Business magazine named him one of the 20 Virginians who transformed their industry in the past two decades. He has been named Executive of the Year by the Professional Services Council and Washington Technology in 2004; Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100, a list of 100 leaders who had a substantial impact of the government IT community, in 2003; the first recipient of the Parren J. Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award; Black Engineer of the Year; Small Business Person of the Year for SBA’s District of Columbia and Mid-Atlantic Region (Region 3 of the SBA) ; Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998; New Vision magazine’s first annual Technology Award; and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year from Minorities and Women in Business. Mr. Hunt was a finalist for the KPMG High-Technology Award.
Under his guidance, RSIS has also developed a culture of contributing time and money nationwide to communities in which RSIS employees live and work. In addition to providing oversight to RSIS’s community and charitable activities, Mr. Hunt is also president of Virginia Pride, Inc., and President and Chairman of the Rodney P. Hunt Family Foundation, both of which support youth development and sports.
Mr. Hunt holds a dual degree in operations research and industrial engineering (ORIE) from Cornell and The George Washington Universities. He has more than 20 years of experience in systems engineering, information management and business development. He also was a senior associate for Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led the Technical and Engineering Systems Group in support of government and commercial clients.
