Meet Charlie

Charlie De Sanno leads Booz Allen’s health business, which accelerates and improves health outcomes for the nation via the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Health and Human Services, and military health portfolio. He advances Booz Allen’s technical capabilities, enabling our teams to deliver transformative digital solutions for clients.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Charlie served as chief operating officer of the health division within information systems and global solutions at Lockheed Martin/Leidos Corp., overseeing a $1.2 billion business that included IT infrastructure, government corporate data centers, cloud solutions, and software development. He redesigned VA’s medical appointment scheduling system, shrinking wait times and transforming how veterans access healthcare. 

Previously, Charlie served as executive director for enterprise systems engineering and IT operations at VA. During his 25 years at VA, he also served as chief information officer for New York and New Jersey VA hospitals, as well as for the more than 40 medical centers and hundreds of clinics under the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic VA. His work included engineering and operating one of the world’s largest IT infrastructures, overseeing a multibillion-dollar budget, and managing a 6,300-employee IT workforce.

Charlie attended NYU and Polytechnic University, majoring in computer science.