As Deltek's Executive Vice President and General Manager – GovCon, Carolyn Parent is responsible for managing Deltek's Government Contracting (GovCon) business across the corporation. She manages GovCon product and services sales, and oversees the related field marketing and demand generation activities focused on Deltek's GovCon customers. Prior to her promotion to General Manager of the GovCon business unit, she led Deltek's Worldwide Sales organization since her arrival in February 2006. During her tenure leading the Deltek sales organization, company revenue grew substantially.

Carolyn Parent brings more than 20 years of experience leading technology sales organizations and launching companies as a successful entrepreneur. Prior to Deltek, she served as national sales director at BearingPoint, a globally recognized leader in strategic consulting and technology solutions for Global 2000 companies and government organizations. As the leader of sales in BearingPoint's Middle Market Practice, she grew the practice to be one of the fastest growing segments within the company. Prior to joining BearingPoint, Parent was an executive at Computer Associates and Executive Vice President of Sales for security metrics management pioneer Sequation, Inc where she helped launch the company. She has also served as the Vice President of Commercial Sales at Enterworks and Xacta Corporation, a division of leading IT solution and service provider Telos Corporation.

Parent holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Villanova University.