Dr. Long V. Nguyen

Dr. Long V. Nguyen is Chairman and CEO of Pragmatics, Inc., a growing information technology firm based in McLean, Virginia with more than 500 employees. He provides overall strategic guidance and direction to senior management in operations, business development and finance. Pragmatics was established in 1985 and specializes in software engineering, systems engineering, information assurance, program management, and information technology infrastructure management. Pragmatics provides mission critical technology solutions to federal clients, such as the development of Defense Department command and control systems, implementation of the Treasury's Bank Examination Systems, and testing of the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection Systems.

Prior to Pragmatics, Dr. Nguyen had a distinguished academic career, in which he taught computer science at Georgetown University, Indiana University and Purdue University.

An active member of the community, Dr. Nguyen is a member of the Tower Club's Board of Governors and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy for Government Accountability. He established relief funds for September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and Hurricane Katrina victims, and contributed substantially to the Smithsonian Vietnamese American Heritage Endowment. He also served as a member of the Transition Committee for Virginia's governor-elect in 2005. He has created endowments at both George Mason University and Iowa State University in honor of his past academic advisors. In 2007, he established the Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Endowed Chair in Software Engineering at Iowa State University in honor of his parents.

Dr. Nguyen's awards include 2008 Ellis Island Medal of Honor; 2008 Washington Business Journal Minority Business Leader Award; 2007 Corporate Leader from The Center for Multicultural Human Services; 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist; 2006 Leadership Award from the International Leadership Foundation; 2005 Federal 100 Awardee; 2005 Executive of the Year Finalist from the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards; 2004 "Entrepreneur of the Year" award from the Diversity Advisory Board of George Mason University; and 2004 Citation of Merit from Iowa State University. Every year since 2000, he has been on the Gold Sea List of 100 Top Asian Entrepreneurs.

Dr. Nguyen earned his undergraduate degree in Physics at North Carolina State University, a master's degree in Physics at University of Virginia, and a doctorate in Computer Science at Iowa State University.