Businesses and Leadership
Ray Fitzgerald
Senior executive providing Board and C-Suite level leadership and strategic advisory services, corporate development, investment, M&A, government relationship and business development expertise across a wide spectrum of companies with $20M-$250M in revenue and valuations between $20M and $4.1B. Currently working over $1B in opportunities in emergent dual-use technologies, Public/Private sector P&L expansion and FMS/DCS/FOCI strategy and execution.
Recent achievements include:
- Lead Corporate Strategy, M&A, Investment, and International efforts at one of the emergent “SHARPE” defense unicorns
- Senior advisory and capture expertise for Forbes Top-Five big-data AI platform company providing real-time event and risk detection alerting through publicly available information (PAI), efforts include market shaping, proposal effort, budget support and protest defense resulting in $325M US DOD multi-year, enterprise-wide contract award
- Strategic Advisor / Advisory Board Member during key funding round for a non-traditional defense company which has created the only dual-use, environmentally powered autonomous underwater and surface vehicles (AUSV) covering both ESG and Defense investor pitches resulting in favorable valuation, term sheet and timely funding
- Key strategist and international advisor to US aircraft OEM providing FMS and DCS strategy and execution, efforts were key to a $3B competitive US DoD special mission aviation award
- Advisory Board member providing US DOD and International GOVREL and BD expertise for publicly traded geospatial data solutions (collection, processing and dissemination)