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Mihir Desai
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dexis’ mission is to help solve today’s most pressing global political, social, and economic challenges and create a world where all people are safe and prosperous.
Dexis is a professional services firm that solves the most pressing social challenges in complex environments, paving the way for a more secure and prosperous world. Our vision is to be a leader among professional service firms working at the center of the U.S. Government’s most critical foreign assistance and national security challenges, recognized for our steadfast commitment to agility, integrity, and our people.
We advance the mission of leading global engagement agencies, including USAID, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. We specialize in stabilization and conflict mitigation, security sector assistance, rule of law, anti-corruption, and inclusive economic growth.
Dexis’ portfolio of projects is divided into three divisions, each with its own distinct origins, scope, and vision for impact in the coming years: our subsidiary Dexis Professional Services, the Governance Division, and the Implementation & Learning Division.
Our Center for Global Security and Stabilization serves as Dexis’ thought leader and identifies technical and regional focus areas to address some of the world’s most pressing security and stabilization issues.
Our staff of over 500 full-time headquarters and project employees maintain an active presence across 80 countries. Dexis staff are also embedded in U.S. Government agencies in Washington, D.C. and around the world. Our ISO 9001-certified quality management system (QMS) makes us a reliable partner with our clients.
Established in 2001, Dexis has grown at double-digit rates for over a decade and is now a solidly middle-market company, a feat demonstrated by 2.5% of small government services firms. Dexis’ agile, digital-forward workforce and robust business platforms ensure adaptive management is built into everything we do.
As a minority-owned company, we are committed to diversity and inclusion as the foundation of our corporate culture. Women make up seventy percent of staff and half of our executive leadership team. Forty percent of our staff and leadership team are from minority or historically under-represented communities.
We are an active member of the communities where we work and provide matching donations to employee-driven social causes. Our employees have top ranked Dexis in Glassdoor as a company with the best growth prospects among its peers.
We believe in smart corporate stewardship to drive growth while investing in our people. We are passionate about what we do, with an unwavering commitment to gold-standard management practices, demonstrated by our ISO 9001:2015 certification.
President and Chief Executive Officer
President, Governance Division
Senior Director, Center for Global Security and Stabilization
Vice President, People and Culture
Director, Business Development
Chief Operating Officer
President, Dexis Professional Services
Vice President, Implementation and Learning Division
Dexis is an agile company that adapts to market changes and operates in complex environments throughout the world. We foster resourcefulness in our team so we can nimbly respond to challenges and provide innovative solutions to our clients. Ingenuity has fueled our success and will continue to fuel our future achievements.
Integrity is Dexis’ foundation. It serves as our uncompromising guarantee of honest and ethical behavior, and our corporate commitment to responsive and friendly customer service. Integrity resonates throughout our work and is at the root of the quality that infuses everything we do. Transparency and decency allow us to build the strong relationships with our staff, clients, and vendors that enable us to deliver superior services.
We empower our staff so they can use their natural enthusiasm and acquired skills to offer insightful solutions to clients, build fulfilling personal careers, and help us grow a successful business.
Over the past two decades, we’ve grown from working on a laptop at Starbucks to now over 500 professionals and evolved to serve new clients across a range of technical and professional services.
While the organization has changed tremendously, we’ve retained our drive to think critically and embrace big challenges. We’re proud of our history as an organization and the impact we’ve had on the world.
Dexis (Developing Economies X Information Systems) is born in New York City to support some of the most critical issues facing the global community.
The 9/11 events. Dexis rapidly expands into economic development support for crisis countries.
Dexis relocates to Washington, DC to be closer to our federal clients.
Dexis expands to focus on accountability in overseas development programs, a crucial issue facing policymakers.
Dexis supports leveraging private capital in development. Dexis wins first prime contract with USAID to support global partnerships.
Dexis is among the first set of firms to advance accountability beyond overseas development and into diplomatic programming. We win our first prime U.S. Department of State monitoring and evaluation Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract and win our first prime USAID IDIQ contract.
Dexis wins our first contract with U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)/US Navy), informing the future of the company’s focus on the 3Ds (development, diplomacy, and defense).
Dexis secures two major USAID prime awards in global health support and fostering cross-agency knowledge exchange, providing short-term assistance in more than 80 countries.
Dexis wins USAID Small Business of The Year.
Dexis launches our Center for Global Security and Stabilization and wins our first prime IDIQ with the Centers for Disease Control.
Dexis wins our first DOD prime IDIQs to provide assessment, monitoring, and evaluation services. Dexis wins USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) Support Which Implements Fast Transition (SWIFT) 5, cementing the company’s focus overseas on fragile states and countries in transition.
Dexis acquires Checchi and Company Consulting and New Century US. Dexis greatly expands our rule of law, anti-corruption, and security training services and our global footprint, increasing our portfolio to $350 million with a long-term presence in 11 countries. Dexis commits to increase our accountability regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Dexis is named a Growth Engine Award national finalist in the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Middle Market Growth Awards. Dexis and wholly owned subsidiary Checchi are consolidated. Dexis commits to integrating conflict sensitivity as part of its organizational processes.
Dexis reimagines the role of Human Resources team and invests in the People & Culture team to focus on meeting the needs of a post-pandemic workforce that requires flexibility, strives to optimize their work-life balance, and values diversity, equity, and inclusion more than ever before.
Dexis transforms complex, dynamic, and volatile environments, facilitating stability and prosperity around the world. We bring together world-class professionals with the talent, drive, and creativity to thrive in the most challenging of environments.
Our mission is to help solve today’s most pressing global political, social, and economic challenges and create a world where all people are safe and prosperous.