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J. P. London is Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc. Dr. London oversees strategic initiatives to ensure shareholder value, advance client missions, cultivate key client relationships and monitor major financial transactions, including CACI's legacy mergers and acquisitions (M&A) program, which Dr. London began in 1992. He has an established role as a public figure representing CACI to customers and the federal information technology (IT) industry. Dr. London's efforts also focus on the evolution and transformation of defense, intelligence, information technology and network communications.
Under Dr. London's leadership, CACI has grown from a small professional services consulting firm to become a pacesetter in IT and communications solutions across markets throughout North America and Western Europe. CACI operations today are worldwide and global in nature.
CACI has sustained its success in today's new economy in part through Dr. London's highly successful strategic acquisitions program. Since 1993 CACI has made 36 acquisitions that have strengthened its position in managed networks, information assurance and the security and intelligence services markets. After the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon CACI operations have taken the company even further into the intelligence and homeland security arenas.
In March 2002 Dr. London led CACI through its first equity offering (secondary offering) since CACI's initial public offering of 1968; the company issued a total of approximately 4.9 million shares of common stock, with gross proceeds of approximately $171M. Moreover, throughout his career Dr. London has overseen the company's bank financing and line of credit transactions, reflecting his experience as a senior corporate financial manager. In May 2004 Dr. London led CACI in raising a new revolving credit facility and institutional term loan totaling $550M to purchase the Defense and Intelligence Group and related assets of American Management Systems, Inc. The acquisition positioned CACI as one of the largest, focused IT providers serving the defense and Intelligence Community markets, and the transaction was hailed as part of the "Hottest M&A Merger of the Year" by the Northern Virginia Technology Council. In May 2007 Dr. London led CACI's sale of $300M in senior subordinated notes, adding convertible security to the company's capital structure for increased financial flexibility.
Under Dr. London's guidance CACI has established premier centers of technical excellence to support its operations. These include its unique Vision & Solution Center, where clients can view and evaluate alternative IT solutions before committing to implementation, and CACI's Information Assurance Technology Center, a dedicated resource facility that provides a central laboratory for developing and testing a broad range of information assurance and security solutions.
Chairman of the Board since 1990, Dr. London first joined CACI as a program manager in 1972. He advanced to VP in 1976, and by 1982 was a division president, managing CACI's extensive work in systems engineering, logistic sciences and advanced information systems. Having been elected to CACI's Board of Directors in 1981, Dr. London was appointed President and CEO in 1984. As a "hands-on" CEO, he was the architect of CACI's operational turnaround in 1984-85 for both revenue and profit growth.
In 1990 Dr. London created CACI's "New Era" strategic vision and successfully transformed the company into a more sharply focused information technology organization for broader opportunities in the rapidly changing IT markets. In 1995 CACI achieved Dr. London's New Era objectives and set company records for revenue and profit. By 1997 Dr. London had begun the next level of transformation within CACI by repositioning the company to center stage in his vision of the "Network World." These moves, under Dr. London's direct guidance, led to CACI's rapid entrée into the information security and Intelligence Community arenas. Now Dr. London continues to guide CACI into the new millennium of the 21st century by evolving CACI's legacy distinctions into flexible new solutions with value-add application across today's expanding technology spectrum.
Dr. London is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1959) and the Naval Postgraduate School (1967), where he earned, respectively, a Bachelor of Science in naval engineering and a Master of Science in operations research. He holds a doctorate in business administration conferred "with distinction" from George Washington University (1971).
During his 12 years of active duty as a regular officer (1959-1971) during the Cold War Dr. London initially served as a naval aviator and carrier pilot, serving with U.S. Navy "hunter-killer" task forces arrayed against the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear submarine threat. He saw service in the Cuban Missile Crisis (the "13 days" of October and November of 1962) and his numerous at-sea deployments included the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. He was with the airborne recovery team for Col. John Glenn's Mercury Program space flight in Freedom 7 in the Caribbean on February 20, 1962 on the USS Randolph (CVS-15). Later, at the height of the Vietnam War, he served as Aide and Administrative Assistant to the Vice Chief of the Naval Material Command, Department of the Navy (1969-70). Dr. London left active duty in 1971 and joined the U.S. Navy Reserve, retiring as a Captain in 1983, having served as commanding officer of aeronautical engineering units with the Naval Air Systems Command, Washington, DC.
In 1987 Dr. London received the Alumni of the Year Award from the George Washington University's School of Government and Business Administration. In 1995 he was presented with the High Tech Entrepreneur Award from KPMG Peat Marwick. In 1996 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from George Washington University. During CACI's 40th anniversary year celebration, in November 2001, Dr. London and CACI were recognized by the Newcomen Society of the United States as being one of the outstanding examples of the free enterprise capitalist system in the U.S. In 2002 Dr. London received the Outstanding Corporate Growth Award for CACI from the Association for Corporate Growth, Washington DC chapter. Also in 2002, Dr. London was recognized by the Human Resources Leadership Awards of Greater Washington in its annual awards program through the establishment of its Ethics in Business Award named in honor of Dr. London. In the spring of 2003 Dr. London received the CEO of the Year Award, presented by the George Washington University Executive MBA Program. Also in 2003 Dr. London was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for Government IT Services and received the John W. Dixon award from the Association of the United States Army for his outstanding contributions to America's defense.
In January 2004 Dr. London received the Albert Einstein Award for Technology Achievement in the Defense Fields, and in March of 2004 he was named to Federal Computer Week's "Federal 100" list of IT leaders, from which he was selected to receive the publication's highest recognition, the Eagle Award, for superior contributions to the federal IT community. In November Dr. London's technology contributions were recognition with both the Northern Virginia Technology Council's Earle C. Williams Leadership in Technology Award and the Arlington, Virginia Chamber of Commerce Technology Executive of the Year Award. London was also named Executive of the Year in October 2005 at the Third Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards. In April 2007 he was awarded the U.S. Navy League's Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award for his exemplary contributions to the enhancement of U.S. maritime strength and national security.
Dr. London has served on the Senior Advisory Board as well as the Board of Directors for the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and is now a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He has served on numerous other boards and foundations. Dr. London is also a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Navy League, the U.S. Naval Institute, the Naval Order of the U.S.A., the American Legion, the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. |
