John Sankovich

John Sankovich is an executive leader in AI, data, cloud and digital modernization across the public sector and commercial markets. He currently serves as the President of AI & Data at venture capital funded Permion.ai and previously was the President, Cloud at private equity backed SMX.  Over the last 15 years, John has founded and led multiple new digital platform businesses that were later acquired, numerous successful private equity led M&A transactions and integrations, and corporate recognition in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud and Digital Transformation Series.

John's background includes extensive executive leadership roles managing full P&L with track record of success in building and growing technology businesses with responsibility for all areas of strategy, sales, product development, managed services, partner management, marketing, finance, business restructuring, and people.  

He currently serves on the Board of Directors, Chair of the Membership committee, and Co-Chair of the Space Community of Interest (COI) for the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and was named the Cloud Industry Executive of the Year and a Top Cloud Executives to Watch.

John received his Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, his Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, and his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.