Management Information
Chairman
Lawrence Cavaiola
Dr. Cavaiola is President of Cavaiola & Associates, LLC, a consulting and advisory services company focusing on the defense, aerospace and security sectors, as well as corporate leadership and management. He serves on a number of other public and private company boards and is a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel. Dr. Cavaiola has nearly 20 years of executive level experience in the defense and security industry, and served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense after distinguished careers in both the Navy and as Deputy Staff Director of the House Armed Services Committee. He is a recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
Chief Executive Officer
George F. Close Jr.
Since retiring as a Major General from the US Army in 2000 he has had a successful private sector career leading, managing and growing businesses. In his last role he was the Senior Vice President for Middle East Operations with an initial assignment as the Program Manager for DynCorp’s LOGCAP IV Afghan AOR-South task order. Prior to assuming that role George was the General Manager and Vice President for DynCorp’s Law Enforcement and Security strategic business unit.During his long and distinguished military career George served as an infantry battalion commander, a senior aide-de-camp to the Secretary of the Army, an infantry brigade commander, an assistant Division Commander and as the Director for Operations, J-3 and Director Joint Interagency Task Force South, US Southern Command.
His last assignment in the military was on the Joint Staff as Director for Operational Plans and Interoperability, J-7, responsible for joint doctrine, training, education, deliberate war planning, lessons learned and for operationalizing Joint vision 2020 reporting to the Director of the Joint Staff and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
President
Kristi Clemens
Kristi Clemens is President of Aegis Defense Services, LLC. She brings with her more than 16 years experience in strategic communications and senior service in the US Government. Most recently, Ms. Clemens served as the Assistant Commissioner of Public Affairs at U.S. Customs & Border Protection. As the Assistant Commissioner, she was responsible for creating and implementing the agency’s national strategic communications plan. She was also the senior advisor to the Commissioner and other CBP leadership on their relationship with the press, public and other stakeholders.Prior to her appointment as Assistant Commissioner, Ms. Clemens served in Baghdad, Iraq as the Director of the Strategic Communications’ Press Office for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer’s strategic communications liaison to his Cabinet of Senior Advisors. Before this tour Ms. Clemens held several senior positions within the federal government that included the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Small Business Administration.
Director
Tim Spicer
Tim Spicer is the Founder and CEO of the worldwide Aegis Group and a member of Aegis LLC Board. Following a 20-year career in the Army, he has broad exposure to the wider industry sector and is a leader in industry reform. In 1999 he set up his own private security consultancy which ultimately led to the establishment of Aegis Defence Services Ltd in 2002 alongside three co–founding partners. Since that date he has overseen the rapid growth of the company, and the breadth and quality of its range of services.In addition to Aegis’s generic expansion and growth, he led and won the $300m prime US Government tender in 2004 to provide core reconstruction security support services in Iraq. This contract was the largest ever US government contract awarded to a UK company in this sector.
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Director
Jeffrey Day
Jeffrey Day is the Joint Managing Director and co-founder of the worldwide Aegis Group and a member of Aegis LLC Board. He provides the strategic management focus required for a very high growth company. He has extensive experience in a variety of private companies in diverse commercial sectors including textiles, electronics and engineering. He has wide experience of start ups, strategic development, acquisitions and disposals.
Director
Robert Reynolds
Robert F. Reynolds is currently the President of RFR, Inc., an independent consulting firm focused on supporting the Defense and Intelligence Communities and Homeland Security in the areas of software assurance, industrial security, counterintelligence issues related to government acquisitions, and risk methodologies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of five companies. Prior to the establishment of RFR Inc. in January 2004, Mr. Reynolds enjoyed a 35-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. In the last several years there he created and developed the Community Acquisition Risk Center, the organization that the CIA and the Intelligence Community uses to conduct threat and risk analysis on companies contracting with the Intelligence Community. Prior to directing this Center, Mr. Reynolds played a number of roles within CIA. These included stints in the contracts arena, both as Chief of Agency Contracts for CIA and as a contracts team lead at the National Reconnaissance Office. Mr. Reynolds also served as an analyst and information officer for Russia and the Middle East, among other areas. This entailed a number of overseas tours in such hardship posts as London, Vienna, Seoul and Tel Aviv.
Director
John Sano
John Sano is the former Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service and brings nearly 30 years of national security, intelligence and international experience to his position as a Board member. His breadth of experience extends to crisis management, strategic planning, and in the establishment and direction of international relationships. His extensive overseas experience, while covering several continents, focused increasingly on the Asian theater of operations. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and was awarded the Diplomatic Order of Merit in 2002 by the President of the Republic of Korea. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Asian Studies from St. John’s University, New York and an M.I.A in International Affairs from Columbia University, New York.
