John (Jack) Hughes recently joined the Atlas Research corporate advisory board. Mr. Hughes is the founder and principal of Phoenix Financial and Advisory Services, where he provides strategic planning, operations, financing, merger/acquisition, and business planning advisement to small and mid-sized companies in the government, commercial technology, media, and entertainment industries.
Prior to founding Phoenix, Mr. Hughes was executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Alion Science and Technology Corp, a large engineering and technology federal contractor, where he was instrumental in its rapid growth from $200M to $750M in five years. He served as senior vice president and CFO at BTG, Inc., where he led efforts resulting in an IPO in 1994 and directed the rapid growth of the company from $50M to nearly $600M in annual revenue.
Prior to BTG, Mr. Hughes held senior executive positions overseeing operations, administration, and finance at ManTech International Corp., which grew from $3.5M to $200M in annual revenue during his tenure. Over the course of his 42-year career, Mr. Hughes has closed more than 40 merger/acquisition transactions and an equal number of financing transactions of all types to support those deals.
"We are thrilled to welcome Jack to our advisory board. He has relationships across the industry and brings an extraordinary amount of financial and operational expertise,” said Atlas Research President Mark H. Chichester. “We look forward to working closely with him as we develop plans and build infrastructure for this high growth phase."
On the board, Mr. Hughes joins Anne Altman, general manager of U.S. federal government industries at IBM; Nick Donofrio, former IBM executive vice president for technology and innovation; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, board chairman and George Washington University president emeritus; and John 'Skip' Williams, Jr., president of the State University New York Downstate Health Sciences Center.