Executive Profile: Harry Gatanas of Serco Inc.

Harry Gatanas serves as senior vice president of the Defense and Intelligence Group at Serco Inc. Gatanas has more than 33 years of experience as a leader in the Department of Defense acquisition and procurement.

In his current position, Gatanas is responsible for a significant portion of the company’s business with the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. He oversees the company’s C4I systems, networks and telecommunications services, engineering and enterprise architectures, program management and acquisition support to include economic analysis activities, military satellite systems, information operations, and all logistics and maintenance functions.

Prior to joining Serco, Gatanas served as executive vice president of strategic programs at SI International. Gatanas also served as president and CEO for MFN Global Services, L.L.C., a fiber-optic telecommunications provider for federal, state, local and international clients specializing in global information-grid solutions.

Gatanas’s government service included duties as the senior acquisition executive for the National Security Agency. Gatanas also served in the U.S. Army and is a retired general with over 28 years of leadership, contracting and acquisition experience.

Gatanas studied at Harvard’s Center for Management Research, the U.S. Army War College, and earned a master’s in teaching from Wayne State University and a bachelor’s degree in history from City College of New York.