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ManTech Announces Tait As CEO, Phillips Becomes Chairman

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 3rd, 2022

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ManTech Announces Tait As CEO, Phillips Becomes Chairman

Matt Tait, president and CEO of ManTech. Photo: ManTech

Close on the heels of The Carlyle Group’s $4.2 billion acquisition of ManTech in mid-September, the company said on Monday that President and CEO Kevin Phillips will retire and transition to chairman of the board and be succeed by Matt Tait as the new president and CEO, effective immediately. Tait was ManTech’s chief operating officer, having joined the company in 2018 following two decades with Accenture [ACN] working on information technology initiatives for customers in the defense, federal civilian, health…

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