Amtower Off Center

Hosted by nationally-known speaker and consultant Mark Amtower,  Amtower Off-Center highlights the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain silly of doing business in the government market. Every week experts join Mark for a lively discussion of current issues facing the government contractor community.


Latest Podcasts / Episodes

  • Chris Parente of StoryTech Consulting, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a detailed discussion on content marketing.
    March 24, 2021
  • Simon Turner, co-founder and CEO of Ocean 5 Strategies joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and why it is important to government contractors.
    March 11, 2021
  • Kevin DeSanto, managing director and co-founder of KippsDeSanto joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the mergers and acquisitions climate in 2020 and the outlook for 2021.
    March 4, 2021
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Joanne Woytek, program manager for NASA SEWP, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss why 2020 was a record breaking year for the GWAC.
    February 10, 2021
  • Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss a wide variety of contracting issues, including the emergence of the GSA small business IDIQ/GWAC…
    February 4, 2021
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Brian Chidester, Global Public Sector marketing executive for OpenText, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the benefits and challenges of using the “whole of government” approach to resolving issues…
    January 27, 2021
  • Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss his company’s updated research on “The Visible Expert”.
    January 19, 2021
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Simon Szykman, chief technology officer at Attain, joins host Mark Amtower on Amtower Off Center to discuss the preparation and planning that federal agencies go through during presidential transitions.
    December 22, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Martha Dorris, founder and CEO of Dorris Consulting joins host Mark Amtower to discuss customer experience and how it fits in the federal government.
    December 21, 2020
  • Adam Vasquez, CEO of Merit joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, to talk about his book: Toothfish: The Origins of Markets, and the concept of market invention.
    December 7, 2020
  • Eric Trexler, vice president of Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure at Forcepoint, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion of how the federal goverment’s cybersecurity efforts are…
    December 1, 2020
  • Judy Bradt, CEO of Summit Insight, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, to discuss what small government contractors can do to grow their businesses.
    November 13, 2020
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, ATARC CEO Tom Suder joins host Mark Amtower to discuss how is company is his company is helping government agencies and contractors resolve their toughest technology challenges.
    October 16, 2020
  • Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss a wide variety of contracting stories, including, the drama surrounding CMMC, the launch of Polaris,…
    October 9, 2020