Oracle Executive Kim Lynch Secures Second Wash100 Award for Leadership in Advancing Cloud, AI Implementation Globally
Kim Lynch, executive vice president of government defense and intelligence at Oracle, has won her second Wash100 Award for championing innovation and the deployment of cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities to meet the mission-critical requirements of customers in government and the commercial sector.
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Executive Mosaic’s annual Wash100 list celebrates the most influential figures in the government and the government contracting industry. This year’s Wash100 awardees include the best public and private sector leaders honored for their achievements in the past year and their visions of the future for their respective organizations and the GovCon industry.
Commenting on Lynch’s latest win, Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, said, “In her second year as EVP at Oracle, Kim’s has continued to stabilize and grow key agency relationships through personal involvement and her demonstration of leadership by example. Kim aggressively leads Oracle’s biggest public sector cloud initiatives, driving major advancements in government IT modernization. Under her leadership, Oracle is, among many other impressive initiatives, overhauling the Army’s personnel and pay system, expanding its electronic health records work with the VA and rolling out next-gen EHR solutions to agencies nationwide. These efforts are more impressive when taken as part of the whole and including Oracle’s deal to provide cloud services for the U.S. Courts, and it’s clear she’s shaping the future of government tech. A well-earned Wash100 win for a leader making real change happen and demonstrate an ability to manage a complex set of contracts across a wide array of agencies.”
Oracle Invests Billions in Cloud, AI
Oracle, under Lynch’s guidance, is making major investments to advance cloud and AI innovation around the world.
The technology company previously announced an investment of over $1 billion to open a third cloud region and drive AI development in Madrid, Spain. The public cloud region will support customer journeys to migrate mission-critical workloads from physical data servers to the cloud and modernize their operations through the deployment of Oracle’s cloud and AI services.
Oracle also announced in the past year an allocation of $1.2 billion toward establishing a public cloud region in Malaysia. The move, the company said in a press release, is in response to the growing demand for cloud computing and AI services in the Southeast Asian nation.
Oracle Forms Major Industry Partnerships
Oracle is also leveraging industry collaborations to advance the digital transformation of customers. The company in 2024 joined forces with cloud operators Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to accelerate modernization across industries. Under the collaboration, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure worked to make the Oracle Database services running on OCI available to more customers globally.
Earlier in 2024, Oracle entered into an agreement with Palantir to provide secure cloud and AI tools to the commercial and government sectors.
Modernizing the Army
In October, Oracle announced the migration of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, an online human resources platform, to its U.S. Defense Cloud under a Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability task order. The move will enable the Army to secure sensitive military data and unlock the benefits of cloud computing.
“The Army sought an industry-leading cloud infrastructure provider to support its IPPS-A modernization with a proven track record of securely managing sensitive data at scale,” said Lynch in October. “By extending our long partnership and selecting Oracle’s dedicated, flexible, and secure cloud infrastructure, the Army will be able to seamlessly migrate its IPPS-A solution to the cloud, unlocking the power of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence across its HR and payroll operations.”
Boosting Customer Efficiency and Resiliency
Commenting on her organization’s accomplishments, Lynch said, “Over the past year, we’ve made intentional strides to align every aspect of Oracle’s Federal team around the singular goal of helping our customers achieve more at a lower level of spend. Whether through modernization of data platforms or strategies to leverage AI and automation, we are working with our customers as they focus on boosting efficiency and strengthening resiliency at a lower cost.”
“I’m incredibly proud of how our team has aligned to support the federal government’s mission, and we’re excited to continue delivering results that matter,” she added.
Executive Mosaic once again congratulates Kim Lynch for her second Was100 award and looks forward to her future successes in GovCon.
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