Meet Rob

Rob Silverman is Booz Allen’s primary integration officer and subsidiary chief executive for new corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In this role, he has led integration for our PAR Government, EverWatch, and Liberty IT Solutions acquisitions.

Since joining the firm in 2002, Rob has served our clients in every primary Booz Allen market—global defense, security, civil government, commercial, international, and U.S. state and local. As an executive leadership sponsor, he has also been deeply involved in advancing the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Outside of Booz Allen, Rob has served on the boards for several small business joint ventures. He has also actively engaged with many nonprofits, including YearUp, the ALS Association, Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health, and Blessings in a Backpack.

Rob has been honored with numerous industry awards, including the Wash100, and most recently, being named one of the Consulting Report’s “Top 25 M&A Consultants and Leaders of 2024.”

Rob earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematical sciences and economics and a master’s in systems analysis for public decision making from Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the Hopkins graduate-level engineering faculty.

Why are you passionate about your work at Booz Allen?

I’m passionate about everything I do, whether it’s rooting for my favorite sports teams, coaching youth sports, serving the community, or working with brilliant, passionate people. At Booz Allen, I’ve been fortunate to lead businesses and serve clients across a whole range of federal, state, and local; international; and commercial sectors. I’m a better person and professional for having done that.

What are the three biggest challenges our federal clients currently face?

• Accelerating innovation—such as bringing commercial technologies around data, networking, and security to serve warfighters, veterans, and citizens.
• Scaling technology adoption through open architectures—ensuring that we enable future innovations and avoid lock-in to outdated technologies.
• Integrating information across previous “boundaries”—such as defense services or domains, electronic health records, and research and regulatory platforms.

What excites me is that our firm’s ability to blend our client intimacy and consulting heritage with cutting-edge technology puts us in a unique position to provide the best, mission-focused solutions to our clients and to the constituents they serve.

Why is it important for Booz Allen to be a diverse and inclusive workplace? Diversity is at the heart of what it means to Be Booz Allen. To truly empower people to change the world and solve the world’s toughest problems, you must have diverse ways of approaching problems and diverse talent to apply their unique gifts to those problems. This is one of the reasons I’m passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and why I’ve served as an executive sponsor of our DEI initiatives.