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Mr. Laurance joined KGS as a Senior Vice President for Enterprise Performance Management in June 2007 to lead and oversee KGS’s program management, Six Sigma, performance measurement, information assurance/information security, finance & accounting systems, and logistics functions.
Prior to joining KGS, Mr. Laurance was an Assistant Vice President for Finance & Accounting with the BRADSON CORPORATION, with responsibility for client relationships with two major clients and profit and loss responsibility for 54 personnel on these engagements. During his leadership one of his clients achieved two consecutive unqualified (clean) audit opinions and these projects continued to expand to address systems implementation planning and other new client needs.
Before joining BRADSON CORPORATION, Mr. Laurance had a distinguished 24-year career with the United States Army. He held positions of responsibility for security and investigations and as a Comptroller. Mr. Laurance’s roles included criminal investigations as a Special Agent for the Army Criminal Investigations Division (CID); tactical security operations, operations planning, command within the Army Military Police Corps; Budget Analyst for Contingency Operations, Army Central Command (ARCENT); and Budget Officer for the Counternarcotics and Counterterrorism Budget for U.S. Southern Command. Mr. Laurance’s career included service in over ten different countries and included Operation Joint Endeavor, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Mr. Laurance holds a Master’s of Business Administration and a Master’s of Arts in Public Administration from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and a Bachelor’s degree in Management from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama. Mr. Laurance also attended the National Security Management Course at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University; Joint Staff Officers College, Norfolk, Virginia; the Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS; the Joint Planner Course, Fort Leavenworth, KS; the Professional Military Comptroller School, Maxwell AFB, AL; the Officer’s Advanced Course, the Protective Services Course; and the Army Criminal Investigations Course at Fort McClellan, AL. | 