The 2025 Merit Awards for Business recognized Kentro with two national honors: the Gold Award in the Private Company category and the Silver Award in the Executive Leadership category.
The Merit Awards highlight companies and leaders that demonstrate innovation, resilience, and meaningful impact. This year’s recognition celebrates Kentro’s rapid rise as a high-performing, values-driven force in the federal contracting space. Kentro earned these honors by delivering cloud-enabled, data-driven, AI-differentiated solutions that align directly to the missions of more than 20 federal agencies.
The Gold Award for Private Company recognizes Kentro for achieving strategic and sustained growth. Over the past year, the company doubled in size, expanded into new federal markets, and matured its internal operations to support scale and complexity. Kentro continues to deliver technical excellence while cultivating a culture rooted in growth, relationships, impact, and relationships. This success reflects Kentro’s deep understanding of federal priorities and the ability to implement solutions that improve speed, resilience, and efficiency across agency operations. By aligning cloud infrastructure, data and AI, cybersecurity, and human capital services to each customer’s mission needs, Kentro helped agencies modernize with confidence and deliver results faster.
The Silver Award for Executive Leadership honors Kentro’s Executive Committee for guiding the company through a period of transformational change. The committee led a full operational redesign, introduced shared services, and strengthened financial forecasting. This leadership enabled Kentro to grow quickly without sacrificing performance or culture. The team built systems that empower staff, align with customer needs, and position the company to lead in a competitive federal market. The leadership team prioritized sustainable systems, mission alignment, and an internal culture grounded in trust and performance.
“These awards affirm the intentional way we grow and lead,” said Pinakin Patel, CEO of Kentro. “We deliver strong results because we focus on our people, our processes, and our purpose every step of the way.”