Advisory Board
Gary J. Gray
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO
- Over 40-year career in government and industry: DoD Systems Acquisition and Engineering and Corporate Development
- Last 10 years: Government Contractor Consultant, Program Director, Corporate Development
- Extensive experience taking Major Systems through the Defense Acquisition Process and into the field
- Certified Level III Acquisition Professional for Program Management
Spiros Pallas, PhD
CTO and Advisory Board Member
- Over 40-year career in government and industry: DoD and DHS Systems Acquisition and Engineering experience
- Last 10 years: Systems Engineering Consulting to DoD and DHS
Former Director, Defense Systems, Director Air Warfare, Science Advisor, Chief Engineer (now Systems Engineer) - Extensive experience taking Major Systems through the Defense Acquisition Process and into the field
- Certified Level III Acquisition Professional for Program Management and Systems Engineering
Joe Pona
Principal and Advisory Board Member
- Over 40 years of experience in aerospace design supporting space, military & commercial product lines
- Last 10 years Senior Technical Manager over multiple global and domestic aerospace engineering design teams
- Former engineering liaison to B-1B, B-2 and B-52 business development teams
- Former research and development project manager for missiles and military aircraft flight controls
- Extensive experience designing, developing, integrating, and testing solutions for defense and space systems
- Lean Six Sigma black belt
Jack Hughes
Advisory Board Member
- Over 30 years of senior corporate leadership experience with a record of progressive management experience in fast growth organizations.
- Prior to his current roles, he helped found a major consulting firm providing advisory and assistance services to the Federal Government and served as Executive Vice President and CFO
- Specialty areas include strategic planning, financial planning, merger and acquisition planning, and executive and leadership coaching
Philip T. Mahoney
Advisory Board Member
- Over 30-years of experience spanning the professional technical services industries supporting a broad range of private and public-sector clients with their critical infrastructure, energy solutions and built environment.
- Versatile business unit professional with extensive experience managing regional, national and international teams: setting strategic and operational vision and delivering sales and profit and loss goals while effectively coordinating multiple business lines/services and transforming under-performing programs.
- Strong blend of commercial, industrial, federal, design-build-operate-maintain, and outsourcing with global program expertise where sustainability and high reliability are foundational requirements: data centers, critical infrastructure and facilities.
Tony Melita
Advisory Board Member
- Over 40-year career in government and industry: DoD Systems Acquisition and Engineering and Corporate Development
- Former Deputy Director for Land Warfare and Munitions
Extensive experience taking Major Systems through the Defense Acquisition Process and into the field - Certified Level III Acquisition Professional for Program Management
