The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

Mentioned is a rising private-equity star who had graduated from Columbia Business School, Kollitides moved up the ranks at Cerberus, Feinberg’s firm, taking the reins of its aerospace, defense and government groups. In 2012, Kollitides took on an especially sensitive and more public job for the private-equity giant.