Battelle President and CEO Lou Von Thaer accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and creator of the Wash100.
The award marks Von Thaer’s eighth induction into the Wash100, an elite group of leaders making an impact on the government contracting industry.
His leadership in the past year has enabled Battelle to win critical contracts including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s four-year Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource program, an $869 million R&D and engineering project with the U.S. Army and the Defense Health Agency’s $10 billion medical research and development services contract.
The nonprofit organization also established new entities, such as Revive Environmental with partner Viking Global Investors, and the ARCH2 hydrogen energy and technology coalition.
“In the five years since taking the helm of the GovCon industry’s most complex scientific integrator and research colossus, Lou has lifted Battelle’s growth by more than doubling top-line revenue to over $11 billion while overcoming the nation’s limited supply of technologists and engineers,” said Garrettson, creator of the Wash100 Award. “Lou is an enthusiastic and evangelical leader of STEM and environmental solutions, and he leads Battelle with the energetic confidence that comes from decades in the industry,” he remarked.