Margarita Howard, sole owner and CEO/president of HX5, has grown her Fort Walton Beach, Florida-based company from a modest startup founded in 2004 into a contractor employing more than 1,000 people across 34 states and 90 government locations. The firm

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The transition from military service to civilian employment is rarely seamless. Skills transfer unevenly, workplace cultures differ, and the structure that defined daily life in uniform is suddenly absent. HX5 CEO Margarita Howard has experienced that shift firsthand, and it

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Margarita Howard has built a reputation for spotting the infrastructure decisions that separate fast-scaling companies from the rest. At HX5, her early investment philosophy treated infrastructure not as a back-office cost center but as a core strategic asset capable of

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