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Leadership
Jeffrey "JR" Rydant
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales
As Senior Vice President (SVP) & Director, Marketing and Sales, JR Rydant oversees SRA’s business development, market research, pricing, proposal development, technical sales and IR&D efforts. Rydant returned to SRA in 2008 after spending six years serving as a marketing & sales consultant for the company, where he led a number of large-scale capture and proposal efforts.
Rydant first joined SRA in 1986 and has spent 22 years working in a variety of roles. After being hired into SRA’s Proposal & Pricing group, he was later promoted to Deputy Program Manager for the JOPES software development and integration contract, then Vice President and Deputy Group Director for the Engineering Systems Group. In this role, he oversaw daily activity in support of several hundred contracts, and led a number of large proposal efforts.
Later, he served as Chief Information Officer and SVP of Information Management & Technology, where he managed technical operations, IT infrastructure support, contracts, staffing and recruiting. Following, he served as SVP of the Commercial Sector and led the firm’s efforts to develop and sell commercial products based on NetOwl.
Before joining SRA, Rydant worked for GTE Government Systems as a systems engineer, focusing on radio frequency (RF) communication systems, nuclear weapon effects analysis and complex modeling & simulation.
Rydant holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. in chemical and nuclear engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.