Federal 100: Denby Starling
Name: Denby Starling
Title: Vice President and Account Executive, Navy-Marine Corps Accounts
Agency/Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Risk management at scale. Starling is transforming HPE’s performance on the military’s largest IT contract — the Next Generation Enterprise Network. Under his leadership, the company has been aggressive about controlling costs, adopting distributed technology and expanding commercial partnerships, while always accounting for the fact that NGEN is much more than a business network. Starling helped both industry and the Defense Department come to a common understanding about measures and tactics for risk assessments and led the way on rethinking recruiting strategies for cybersecurity professionals — for HPE and the entire federal IT community.