As Executive Vice President of Business Development, Contracts Capture and Marketing, Chris leads brand strategy, marketing, internal and external communications, and contracts capture and promotion for ISL. 

He is responsible for generating new growth opportunities with ISL partners and customers worldwide.

Chris brings more than 20 years of experience in public sector marketing and sales. Before
joining ISL, Richards led marketing and communications at Mythics, Inc. & Emergent LLC,
Mythics Emergent Group Companies. Richards and his teams helped achieve 14 years of
sustained sales growth and success, helped win many IT resale and IT consulting partners of the
year awards and contributed to being named top government contractors by Washington
Technology and Bloomberg Government. He also held positions at Cisco Systems, UUNET
Technologies, and America Online. Chris graduated with a B.S. from James Madison University.