Leadership is about orchestrating others
Getting the job done successfully requires successful leaders. Success comes from experience. Leadership experience comes from doing it, embracing it, and having others follow it.

Successful strategic leaders are strong, well-educated and principled who can make informed decisions in the face of uncertainty. 

Stu Shea
Chief Executive Officer (emeritus)

Stu Shea is a business leader and intelligence professional serving in an advisory capacity to public and private companies, government agencies, private equity investors, and academic institutions.

Stu is the former President & Chief Operating Officer of Leidos, a $6B scientific, engineering, and technology company. Stu was the principal architect of the creation to Leidos when he served as the COO of SAIC, an $11B FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology company. Under Stu’s leadership, Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) was separated into two publicly-traded companies, Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and SAIC (NYSE: SAIC). The creation of LDOS and SAIC returned a 72.5% Total Shareholder Return to SAI investors in CY2013. In his COO role, Stu led a team of 40,000 employees across 400 locations worldwide. Prior to being named COO, Stu led SAIC's support to the National Security Community as President, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Group. With nearly 13,000 employees and over $3.5B in revenues, his Group provided technology services and products for customers across the full spectrum of national security programs, including: cyber-security; human intelligence (HUMINT), surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); signals intelligence (SIGINT); geospatial intelligence (GEOINT); operational intelligence; support to special operations forces (SOF); intelligence analysis; linguistics; offense and defensive counter-space; and the development of technologies to support the fight against global terrorism.

Stu is also a founder of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) (www.usgif.org) and the highly acclaimed GEOINT Symposium (http://geointsymposium.com/), and also served as President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. Stu serves as a Trustee of Riverside Research, a Board Member of Applied Research Solutions, a member of the National Intelligence University Foundation (NIUF) Advisory Board, and the George Mason University College of Science Advisory Board. Stu recently served as Chairman of the Board for multiple Leidos subsidiaries, and served on the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, a member of the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Advisory Board, as a Member of the Advisory Board of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), the Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Working Mother Media Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of Geospatial21/KidZ On-line, and the Board of Advisors of Paragon Technology Group, Inc., a small women-owned business. 

Stu has a Master of Arts in Geography from the University of Kansas, a Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences from State University of New York at Albany, and executive education at the University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, and The George Washington University - School of Business and Public Management.

Kristine Shea
Co-Founder

Kristine Shea (Petka) is a seasoned, determined, and results-driven business leader with 20+ years experience in all aspects of acquisition & procurement operations in both public and private companies serving Federal Government, Commercial and International clients.

Kristine is the former Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer of Leidos, a $6B scientific, engineering, and technology company, with enterprise leadership for a procurement organization with an annual spend of >$2.5B. In that capacity, she had overall responsibility for the procurement discipline (purchasing and subcontracts), corporate procurement policies and procedures, CPSR preparedness, along with leadership of the Small Business Program Office. In that role, she developed and implemented process efficiencies and sourcing strategies that led to >$60M annually of enterprise cost savings, while maintaining strict adherence to regulatory compliance. She has expert knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and maintained direct interaction with both the DCMA CACO and DCAA ACO. Kristine was responsible for the development and implementation of major operational efficiencies that served as the basis of the creation of both Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and SAIC (NYSE: SAIC) when she served as the Chief Procurement Officer of SAIC, an $11B FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology company. Under her leadership, Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI), Kristine had enterprise leadership responsibility for procurement organization with annual spend of >$4B, developed comprehensive sourcing strategies, shared services operations, workflow and process automation, and was an effective strategist to manage and ensure positive cash flow management in SAIC’s acquisition cycle.

Kristine is an innovative problem solver with solid research capabilities, a proven record of reliability and responsibility, demonstrated honesty and highly ethical behaviors, and keen intuition.

Kristine has a Master of Science (with honors) in Organizational Leadership, Regis University, a Masters Certificate in Executive Leadership, Regis University, a Masters Certificate, Government Contract Management, Villanova University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Business Administration, Strayer University, and professional training in  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights,  Organizational Conflict of Interest, Employment and Labor Law, Export Controls, and International Contracting.