Paul M. Cofoni is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of CACI International Inc, a multi-billion dollar professional services and information technology (IT) company.
Under Mr. Cofoni’s guidance, CACI broadened its penetration of the federal marketplace, with special emphasis on increasing CACI market share in defense, homeland security, the intelligence community, and the transformation and modernization of government. Mr. Cofoni has played a key leadership role in developing CACI’s ability to compete for large-scale contracts at the highest levels of government service. He has overseen the growth of CACI from $1.6 billion of revenue in 2005 to more than $3.8 billion at the end of 2012. His responsibilities also included managing CACI’s corporate development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) program. CACI acquired 20 companies under Mr. Cofoni’s leadership. Mr. Cofoni served on the board of CACI and its Executive Committee from November 2006 till December 2012.

Mr. Cofoni has more than 30 years of senior-level executive experience in business development, M&A, strategic planning, and operations in both federal and commercial markets. His professional experience includes large-scale integrator contracts in the broad federal market sector; the defense, intelligence, and communications markets; and major commercial IT outsourcing in manufacturing, telecommunications, aerospace/defense, insurance, and energy markets.
In 2008, and again in 2010, Mr. Cofoni was named to Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 list of government and industry leaders who have had a positive impact on the federal IT community. Mr. Cofoni was honored as the 2011 Executive of the Year at the Greater Washington Government Awards ceremony, and was selected by Government Computer News as the 2012 Executive of the Year. He has served as Chairman of the Board of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International. AFCEA serves the military, government, industry, and academia as an ethical forum for advancing professional knowledge and relationships in the fields of communications, information technology, intelligence, and global security. Mr. Cofoni also served as Chairman of the Professional Services Council, an association of federal services contractors. PSC’s purpose is to advocate with congress and the executive branch for government policies which will promote effective contracting between government and industry. Mr. Cofoni served as the Executive Chairman of Pacific Architects and Engineers, a $1.6 Billion Company operating in the Federal Services Marketplace, from April 2013 till February 2014. Mr. Cofoni has served on the Board of the Virginia Hospital Center since 2010, where he is Chairman of the IT Oversight Committee. Mr. Cofoni also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of the University of Rhode Island Foundation, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome, Italy.
Before joining CACI, Mr. Cofoni was President, Federal Sector, of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). One of the largest systems integrators for federal government agencies, CSC’s Federal Sector contracts included numerous aerospace, defense, and intelligence systems applications and services. Under Mr. Cofoni’s leadership, CSC’s Federal Sector annual revenues grew from $2.7B in 2001 to over $5B in 2005. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Cofoni spent ten years as an executive in CSC’s Commercial IT Outsourcing business culminating with his assignment as President of CSC’s North American IT Outsourcing Group. Mr. Cofoni personally led the capture of such large outsourcing contracts as British Aerospace (now BAE Systems), United Technologies, and Nortel Networks. Under his leadership, North American Outsourcing grew from $1B in annual revenues in 1998 to over $2B in annual revenues in 2001. Prior to joining CSC, Mr. Cofoni enjoyed a 17-year career with General Dynamics in a number of technical, and leadership assignments from 1974 to 1991. At General Dynamics, he served as Vice President of Information Technology services for both east and west coast service centers, providing all IT services for the aerospace, shipbuilding, and land combat vehicle divisions of General Dynamics.
Mr. Cofoni served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1974. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island in 1970 and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School program for senior executives in the Fall of 1988.