K2 Integrity has promoted former chief operating officer Tom Bock to lead the company’s global financial crimes risk management division.

Succeeding Bock as COO will be new hire Jennifer Law and Chip Poncy has been elevated to global head of financial integrity, the New York City-based risk advisory firm said Monday.

Of the set of new appointments, Jeremy Kroll and Andrew Rabinowitz attested to K2’s “deep bench of extremely talented, mission-driven professionals.”

Kroll elaborated, saying that the “major market dynamics resulting from the decentralization and digitalization of finance” as well as “increased economic security risks and the regulatory impacts of rising geo-political tensions” have motivated the company’s decision to strengthen its FCRM team.

As head of the financial crimes risk management department, Bock will focus on establishing new strategic cooperations and client business while adding to the division’s legacy of advising on asset risk at a global scale.

He has worked at K2 for over a decade. Prior to coming aboard, Bock was senior manager of financial services at Ernst & Young and a corporate compliance contractor for CIT Group. His expertise lies in anti-money laundering sanctions, regulatory compliance and fraud investigations.

In Bock’s place as COO will be Law, who will leverage her C-suite experience from positions such as controller at ARK Investment Management and controller for Brahman Capital and Ramius. She was also chief financial officer and COO for the start-up Buzzup Digital, which she had a direct hand in building and scaling. Among Law’s core capabilities are accounting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting and reporting functions.

Rabinowitz shared he has worked with Law for almost three decades and after watching her career succeed from afar, knows she will be “highly accretive” to K2’s customers, partners and team.

In the newly created role of global head of financial integrity, Poncy will be responsible for assisting the firm in attempting to digitize data and better combat illicit finance with technological strategies. He is a two-decade veteran of illicit finance prevention work and has been collaborating with K2 since 2019 on developing a public-private sector network as well as boosting financial crimes risk management efforts. He has accomplished the latter through the implementation of new products, services and approaches.

Previously, Poncy worked as director of the office of strategic policy for the U.S. Department of the Treasury for 11 years.

“I look forward to collaborating with Tom, Jen and the entire firm in our collective efforts to enhance the financial integrity and security of our clients and our global community,” Poncy said.

Longtime Booz Allen Hamilton executive and communications specialist Sebrena Sawtell has been appointed the company’s director of strategic growth marketing.

In her new role, Sawtell – who has also been elevated to principal status – will lead a newly created team and direct Booz Allen’s expansion efforts via marketing strategies, she said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.

“Working for an amazing company that allows ideas that grow into new teams really is the cherry on top,” Sawtell added.

Sawtell has cultivated an over two decade career in marketing and public relations, nearly 15 years of which she has spent at Booz Allen. A master of business administration graduate from Southern Adventist University, Sawtell began her career as a marketing assistant for three regional hospitals in the Adventist Health Care network.

She then held the position of director of public relations for Life Care Centers of America and assistant vice president of Widmeyer Communications. While performing these roles, Sawtell additionally acted as an independent consultant for various children’s educational programs and oversaw their development and global distribution.

The executive entered Booz Allen at the end of 2007 as a lead associate. In this position, she presided on a leadership team focusing on strategic communications, organizational design and solving management challenges.

Sawtell became a senior associate in 2018, after which point she spearheaded the firm’s cybersecurity, intelligence and product marketing outreach.

The freshly minted director of strategic growth marketing believes in a marketing approach that is more than just selling something and communicates a meaningful story.

She holds a passion for educating special needs children and is a director for the Seventh-Day Adventist organization Pathfinders.

Sawtell’s promotion follows Booz Allen’s February instatement of Raynor Dahlquist as senior vice president heading up cyber strategy.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is looking for a full-time chief information officer to oversee the agency’s enterprise information technology and cybersecurity processes.

A notice posted on USAJobs.gov says the CIO’s responsibilities include data and systems protection, IT workforce development and process simplification.

The authorizing official over FEMA systems will report to the deputy associate administrator for mission support and work closely with the agency’s financial and component procurement departments to manage IT investments, acquisition review and approval processes and Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform implementation efforts.

Federal News Network reported Thursday that Lytwaive Hutchinson, who has served as FEMA CIO over the past three years, will leave the federal government to join the private sector.

Hutchinson previously held a 17-year career at the Department of Defense and served in the U.S. Army for 21 years.

Clay Socha, acting head of contracting activity at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency since August 2021, has been appointed to the position on a full-time basis.

He played a key role in the transition of National Background Investigations Bureau operations to DCSA and oversaw the integration of contract portfolios into the agency, Nicole Evans, deputy chief acquisition officer at the Department of the Treasury, said in a congratulatory post on LinkedIn.

Socha served as director of the NBIB Administrative Contracting Office for two years before he joined DCSA in October 2019, when the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Defense completed the realignment of government background investigations activity with DCSA.

Prior to NBIB, he worked at Army Contracting Command as supervisory contract specialist and team chief.

His promotion at DCSA comes as the agency is moving data from the National Industrial Security System and the Defense Information System for Security to the federal government’s consolidated personnel vetting information technology.