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LYNCHBURG, VA (Feb. 15, 2021) CloudFit Software, LLC announced Tom Sampson as a new hire to fill the Vice President for Federal and Regulated Industries role. He will be dedicated to servicing DoD, Federal government, and regulated industry customers as a well as continuing the growth trajectory for the company into the future.
Sampson has 22 years of leadership in Navy active and reserve service and 15 years of IT implementation, delivery, account, and executive experience. His career of leadership, innovation, organizational change and IT excellence has supported customers in DoD, Federal, regulated, commercial, and retail sectors.
“We’re very excited to welcome Tom into our CloudFit family.” Said Joe Martin, CloudFit Software’s CEO. “CloudFit is delivering unique capabilities to our customers, in support of mission critical workloads and enabling the warfighter. Tom’s proven leadership and innovation, coupled with his passion for serving others is a huge force multiplier as we continue to grow and scale our capabilities across the DoD, the Federal government and our regulated industry customers.”
“I am very excited to join such an accomplished team,” said Tom Sampson. “The capability in the CFS platform and engagement teams married to the service provided to our customers has the potential to meet so many needs, change how the government looks at operations and monitoring, and increase efficiency and effectiveness directly for the warfighter. CloudFit has a great business model and talented management team that uniquely positions the company to capitalize on the changing information systems implementation and management environment.”
Previously Sampson was the Chief Information Officer of the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), the largest defense acquisition program in history. During his tenure he restructured the information systems program, implemented the government managed air system software development environment, and reduced overall operating costs year-over-year. His civilian career prior to the JPO includes IT consulting, B2B, B2C, Digital Marketing, and digital retail consulting for fortune 50 and 100 companies in the healthcare, finance, retail, and education industries. Before his civilian career he was a Naval Aircrewman on the P-3C and a Naval Aviator flying the SH-60B Seahawk. He deployed multiple times around the world and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sampson earned a BA degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, an MS in ITM Management from the American University in Washington, D.C., and an MBA also from the American University in Washington, D.C. He also held the position of Adjunct Professor of Project of Program Management in the McDonough School of Business at the Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois and has several awards and published credentials.
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About CloudFit Software
Founded in 2018 by former Microsoft veterans and located in Lynchburg, VA, CloudFit Software was established to fill a need in the IT industry and is now leading the market in “Managed Scenarios” for cloud across Fortune 500, DoD and Regulated Industries. While CloudFit primarily exists to implement, manage and secure critical services and applications to the cloud, it has a great mission with its charities: KidFit — uses athletics as a conduit to provide mentorship and opportunities for all kids regardless of their ability to pay and JobFit — lowers barriers for high school and college students to achieve great IT careers.
