Raymond Holder is a senior growth executive and innovation leader who has helped government clients – across 90+ countries and four continents – use technology to transform their organizations and change lives. 

He currently serves as VP of Digital Growth for Maximus, where he leads development and go-to-market strategy for Maximus’ Digital Modernization solutions for technology consulting services clients across the US Federal Government. 

Ray spent a decade in Europe, where his work with healthcare leaders and foreign nationals in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Turkey and the UK led to three Military Healthcare Innovation awards.

Prior to Maximus, Ray was Executive Strategist - US Federal at Amazon Web Services, where he built and led a strategic business development team to drive change and “big bets” growth across the US Federal Healthcare, Sciences, Homeland Security, and Civic Services portfolio. 

Ray studied Architectural Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Computer Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he has been a guest lecturer for IT Innovation at the Milken School of Public Health at the George Washington University. He also volunteers on the boards of Government, technology, and Veterans support organizations in the Washington, DC area

George Jackson serves as vice president of events at GovExec, the largest and most influential media company in the public sector marketplace. He launched GovExec TV in 2021 and built it into a multi-million dollar business, receiving GovExec’s first annual Entrepreneurial Spirit Award and a 2024 “B2B Media Rising Star Award” from the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA).

Previously, George produced Capital Insider at WJLA-TV, where he won an Emmy award in 2012. One year later, he developed and recorded the pilot episode of Government Matters, a program about the business of government, which debuted as a weekly show on Sunday, August 4, 2013. He led the show through September 2020, expanded its reach to a daily worldwide audience, and produced its first feature-length documentary, The Dawn of Generation AI.

George’s roots lay in TV, journalism, and storytelling. He spent the first five years of his professional career at WJHL-TV in Johnson City, Tenn., where he began as an overnight producer and then became the lead on-air reporter for the station’s 11 p.m. newscast. He covered and investigated the earnings of two non-profit hospital systems, felony charges filed against a local sheriff, predatory paving companies, a health benefits backlog for local veterans, and a series of cold case murder investigations. He received an honorable mention for Best TV Reporter in the 2011 Tennessee AP Broadcast awards and won a Best Investigative Reporting award from Media General in 2010.

George graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in English. In 2006, he earned his master’s in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

George is from Toledo, Ohio. He lives with his wife, twin daughters, and a pack of rescue dogs in Northern Virginia