Carey Smith, CEO and President of Parsons, is a six-time winner of the Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in government contracting. Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the award, celebrated Smith’s sixth win (and fourth consecutive) by hand-delivering the prize to her at Parsons’ Chantilly, Virginia office in June.
The Wash100 Award is a rare and highly coveted rite of passage in the GovCon community — if you win in even just one isolated year, it’s a guarantor of a career marked by high achievement. This is because the award-giving body not only looks at past and recent accomplishments, but also uses it as a way to indicate who they think will be influencing the market in the years to come. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of their leadership, innovation, vision and reliability, among other factors.
Smith made herself a lock for the award through her assurance of the company to an impressive slew of new business deals, such as the acquisitions of IPKeys Power Partners and Sealing Technologies. Read more about her exciting year in 2023 and the qualifications that are setting her up to maintain her position as one of the industry’s most impactful players.
“Carey is harnessing unprecedented global spending and record-breaking RDT&E funding to not only drive growth in Parsons’ core markets but also to better align the business with its customers’ most urgent national security and critical infrastructure needs,” remarked Garrettson. “Carey was the leading force behind the company’s record-breaking $1.4 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2023, and her continued reliability and achievements have earned her the 2024 Wash100 Award.”
Executive Mosaic congratulates Smith on her triumphant win and is thrilled to watch her steer Parsons — and the GovCon community — into its next chapter!
