Janet Clement – Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of Jefferson, Janet Clement epitomizes leadership with her dynamic approach, exemplifying over 35 years of expertise in spearheading growth, change, and innovation. Her tenure is marked by an unwavering commitment to customer-focused solutions. Under her stewardship, Jefferson has flourished, both in market reputation and internal strategy cohesion. Janet’s belief in the transformative power of a people-centric culture has been pivotal in creating an innovative workplace. Her leadership style fosters collaboration across executive and senior management teams, driving solutions that address government challenges with client-centricity and high-impact results.
Before joining Jefferson in 2021, Janet led and executed growth and customer delivery in large and small businesses. Her leadership and service to customers resulted in one small business growing from $20M to $50M by developing a human resources shared services approach and winning the Department of Commerce HR Shared Services contract. While working for Unisys Federal, she developed a Human Capital Practice and managed strategic accounts across various federal agencies. She later led major IT modernization efforts, including application development and data center migrations. Janet’s roots in the public sector include significant roles at the U.S. Mint and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Her active involvement in industry organizations further strengthens her leadership. She is a member of the Executive Committee for Professional Services Council, a board member for the American Council of Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), an ACT-IAC Fellow, class of 2014, and an advisor to NOVATech Works.
Dr. Allan Burman – Jefferson Solutions President
Dr. Allan Burman, President of Jefferson Solutions, has been a transformative leader since establishing the government solutions practice in 1996. His leadership has seen Jefferson providing a spectrum of services, including organizational and data analysis, programmatic excellence, and acquisition assistance to over 60 government agencies.
Dr. Burman’s distinguished government career includes policy roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the White House’s OMB. As the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, he was a pioneer in establishing performance-based contracting and emphasizing outcome-focused federal oversight and execution practices.
His accolades include being a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, past Chairman of the Procurement Round Table, a Board Advisor at NCMA, and a Senior Advisor to Government Executives at the Partnership for Public Service. His educational background is equally notable, with a PhD from George Washington University, a Master’s degree from Harvard, a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Bordeaux, France, and a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.
Carrie Kramer – Executive Vice President
Carrie Kramer brings nearly three decades of progressive leadership to her role as Chief Growth Officer for Jefferson. With a career defined by building high-performing teams, winning complex federal contracts, and scaling accounts from the ground up, Carrie is recognized by clients and peers alike for her rare ability to bridge strategic vision with hands-on execution. Carrie’s career is defined by one recurring story: she sees opportunity where others see complexity.
With deep expertise spanning business development, capture management, P&L leadership, and large-scale program execution, Carrie has competed and won across the most demanding corners of the federal landscape. She has led captures with total contract values exceeding $4B, commanded enterprise infrastructure programs, and guided organizations through ISO and CMMI certification. Her background spans professional services, software development, cybersecurity, IaaS/PaaS, and agency strategic governance; giving her a rare ability to align technical delivery with strategic business outcomes.
Carrie was honored with the Women in Technology Leadership Impact Award by FORUM in 2024 and served as Industry Vice-Chair for the ACT-IAC Partners Program in 2023. She is a Fellow of the ACT-IAC Partners Program in 2017 and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary, along with PMP, PMI-RMP, ITILv3, and SAFe Agile certifications.
Jeremy Arensdorf – Executive Vice President
Jeremy Arensdorf is the Executive Vice President of Jefferson Procurement and Assistance Solutions (JPAS), leading the company’s federal acquisition and grants management solutions. In his 20+ years at Jefferson, he has supported more than 20 federal agencies in acquisition, grants management, organizational development, international development, and project management while expanding Jefferson’s agency reach and services.
Jeremy is PMP certified and a Fellow of ACT-IAC. His leadership has been acknowledged through his chairmanship of the Acquisition Management Shared Interest Group and his selection for APMP’s 40 Under 40 award. He holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA with high distinction from Hastings College.
Before joining Jefferson, Jeremy’s dynamic background includes being the Director of Forensics at Doniphan-Trumbull High School in Nebraska, where he established a premier speaking program.
Nehemiah Green – Executive Vice President, Innovation
Nehemiah Green serves as Executive Vice President of Innovation at Jefferson Solutions, where he leads the company’s innovation and venture initiatives in support of Jefferson’s strategic growth and long-term expansion. In this role, he is focused on accelerating innovation, identifying new market opportunities, and helping bring new capabilities and solutions to clients and partners.
Nehemiah brings extensive experience across venture capital, emerging technology, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market leadership. Throughout his career, he has worked with high-growth startups, venture-backed companies, and global organizations to drive innovation, scale strategic initiatives, and build partnerships that create long-term business value. His background includes leadership roles spanning AI and cloud technologies, startup ecosystem development, workforce innovation, and strategic business growth.
Prior to joining Jefferson, Nehemiah led emerging venture capital partnerships at Amazon Web Services, where he managed relationships with top-tier firms representing over $6.7B in assets under management. Earlier in his career, he held partnership and business development roles at Patreon and Handshake, working with high-growth startups and venture-backed companies across consumer, enterprise, and workforce technology.
Nehemiah serves on the Board of Advisors at the Tufts Derby Entrepreneurship Center. He holds an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. from Tufts University.
Jessica Dusewicz – Senior Vice President, Finance & Accounting
Jessica Dusewicz is an accomplished finance and accounting executive with more than 20 years of experience in the government contracting sector. As Senior Vice President of Finance & Accounting at Jefferson, she provides strategic leadership for the company’s financial operations and serves as a key member of the executive team, helping shape financial strategy and support the organization’s long-term business objectives.
Known for bringing financial discipline, operational rigor, and strategic insight to complex business environments, Jessica plays a critical role in strengthening organizational infrastructure, enhancing financial controls, and building scalable processes that support efficiency and informed decision-making. She helps drive enterprise-wide priorities by providing financial leadership that enables operational excellence, effective resource allocation, and long-term value creation.
In addition to leading finance and accounting functions, Jessica plays a key role in strategic growth initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, providing leadership in financial diligence, integration planning, and initiatives that support the company’s long-term growth strategy.
Jessica holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from George Mason University.
Laura Noce – Senior Vice President, Human Resources
As Jefferson’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Laura is responsible for all aspects of our human capital strategy and programs. With more than 25 years of experience in human resources and leadership, Laura works to create an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, productivity, and ongoing development of a superior workforce at Jefferson. Her expertise and tactics align Jefferson’s human resources strategy with the organization’s mission and business objectives.
Before her current role, Laura served as the Human Resources Director & Facility Security Officer of a firm that provided services to the federal government. Within that group, Laura led the human resources & security functions and implemented new best practices across the organization.
Laura earned her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus. She is an active member of the national and local chapters of the Society of Human Resource Management.
Karen O’Brien – Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Karen O’Brien is a Senior Vice President, leading Jefferson’s National Security and Civil Service division, as well as serving as Jefferson’s General Counsel. She is a government contracts attorney and recognized expert on procurement law. Leveraging her procurement expertise, Karen provides high-level acquisition assessment reviews, strategic assessments, and acquisition assistance to numerous federal agencies.
Before joining Jefferson, Karen was Of Counsel to a small firm where she practiced government contract law, including contract administration matters, claims, disputes and bid protests. Prior to that, she managed the Government Contracts publications program of the George Washington University Law School.
Karen began her career as a procurement law attorney in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. While in the Army she served as the legal advisor to the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting and the Head of Contracting Activity in Southwest Asia. She also served as a staff attorney for the DoD Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying the Acquisition Process (Section 800 Panel).
Karen is an author on key texts in the field of government contracting, including The Government Contracts Reference Book and Competitive Negotiation: The Source Selection Process (CCH Publishing). Karen received a Juris Doctor from the Vermont Law School and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Niagara University.
Michelle Straughn – Senior Vice President
Michelle Straughn is a Senior Vice President at Jefferson and leads programs across the federal civilian market with a focus on infrastructure and natural resources. With over 27 years of experience, Michelle is a subject matter expert in transforming organizations and providing acquisition, business process reengineering, organizational assessment and redesign, data and analysis, and strategic planning services, as well as human capital, cost and performance, IT, and operations excellence.
Michelle provides stellar business development, capture, growth management, and strategic leadership and guidance to over 25 programs and projects at Jefferson primarily supporting United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Department of the Interior (DOI). The solutions provided span all of the Jefferson offerings to include organization and evaluation analyses, human capital performance, strategic planning, acquisition and grants lifecycle operations, communications, training and facilitation, and data analytics and automation.
Prior to joining Jefferson, Michelle served in the roles of Chief Operations Officer (COO), Founder and President of a woman-owned small firm, and Senior Manager/Engagement Director at various large government firms.
Michelle holds a BA from the University of Maryland and a Master of Public Management from the Maryland School of Public Affairs. Michelle is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA).
Dr. Andrew Marin – Senior Vice President
Andrew Marin, PhD serves as a Senior Vice President at Jefferson. He brings over two decades of global expertise turning chaos into cohesion within the federal and foreign government, defense and military, commercial, international diplomatic, and NGO sectors. As a recognized authority on the human condition, Andrew utilizes a mastery of human and system dynamics to deliver targeted results in the most demanding situations – from executive offices to conflict zones.
He leads Jefferson’s Organizational Effectiveness horizontal across all government, foreign, and business solutions, driving new growth and delivering innovative methods and advanced analytics and tools to effectively construct organizations and their workforces into peak performing entities that efficiently achieve critical missions.
Andrew is the author of over 20 articles, policy reports, and three widely acclaimed books on human dynamics and building bridges between opposing worldviews, and has developed proprietary, peer-reviewed analytics and IP that have assessed and brought to resolution a wide range of problems, constraints, and bottlenecks in over 40 countries. He has a B.A. in Applied Psychology (Human Development) from the University of Illinois Chicago, an M.A. in Urban Studies (Social Change) from Eastern University, and a Ph.D. in Contextual Studies (Human Dynamics) from the University of St. Andrews, where he continues as a Non-Resident Research Associate.
Kevin Houley – Vice President
Kevin Houley serves as Vice President and leads Jefferson’s largest Department of War contract. He is a visionary leader and executive with 25 years of experience supporting National Security Initiatives for the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Over the course of his career, Kevin has had the privilege of leading highly technical, diverse workforces. He takes pride in his ability to adapt to changing priorities while maintaining a holistic perspective for his clients. Kevin has proven his leadership time and again while effectively driving change, achieving objectives, and successfully leading programs in stressful, high-pressure situations. He places great value in developing collaborative relationships with internal and external customer teams.
Prior to joining Jefferson, Kevin was the Senior Director for Teradata’s Public Sector. He was accountable for service sales and P&L on all client engagements, personnel oversight, and providing pre-sales expertise for prospective DoD clients. After 9/11 Kevin joined Northrop Grumman/TASC, and during his tenure, he served as CIO of the State and Local Government Sector overseeing $400M and 250+ FTE in global classified projects. In this role, he led his team to over $750M in new business. Kevin states that his success was based on outstanding relationships with industry partners, outstanding employees, and strong listening skills with the customer.
Kevin’s educational background includes a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, an MBA from George Washington University, and a Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Analysis from the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy.
Kaelin Kovacik Worthey – Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives
Kaelin is the Vice President of Operations & Strategic Initiatives, leading enterprise operations, strategic execution, and internal transformation efforts across Jefferson. In this role, she works closely with executive leadership to translate organizational priorities into actionable plans, strengthen business systems, and create alignment across people, process, and performance.
Kaelin oversees key internal functions and initiatives that support Jefferson’s growth, scalability, and operational resilience. Her work spans enterprise operations, quality and risk management, process improvement, IT and systems enablement, knowledge management, strategic planning, and executive sponsored initiatives. She plays a central role in helping the organization identify friction points, improve internal workflows, and build the structures needed to operate with greater clarity, consistency, and accountability.
Kaelin came to Jefferson from Avantus Federal, where she led contract delivery for a joint Department of Transportation and Office of Management and Budget effort focused on evaluating the federal government’s implementation of the Federal Data Strategy.
Kaelin earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Kentucky and holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from American University.