Leadership Team

Stephen G. Wood

SSA Board Member, Chairman of the Government Security Committee

Stephen is the Chairman of Butler’s Government Security Committee. He is President and CEO of SGW advisors and has previously served as the SVP for Rolls Royce, North America Government business in the DC area. He has been part of the Air Force for 34 years where he held the positions of Deputy Commander (USFK), USAF Legislative Liaison to Congress and Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs; Lieutenant General (Ret.). He has a double masters, one being MSc in International Relations from New Mexico State University and a MSC in International Security Policy from the National Defense University, Washington DC.

Patrick M. Dewar

Chairman of the Board

Patrick has a Bachelor in Engineering from Swarthmore College and University. With more than three decades of experience in the defense industry, one of his most notable contributions includes his work as the EVP of Lockheed Martin’s, and as the Chairman of the Board since 2010, during which he was responsible for Lockheed martins global investments and acquisitions. He is also the founder of Trenton.

Siba Satapathy

Senior Vice President, ERS Transportation

With more that 22 years of Core Engineering Business Development Experience, Siba has held academic qualifications of Bachelors from National Institute of Technology and an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management. He has been the SVP and Head of Engineering Services of Transportation Sector as HCL Globally and spearheads the responsibility of client relationships, business development, and pre-sales teams. He works on road mapping developing long-term strategies, marketing, planning, large deal structuring, and new market incubation for the A&D sector and rolling out Business solutions.

Hari Sadarahalli

Corporate Vice President, Manufacturing, Medical, Transportation

Hari has a Bachelor in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering for Bangalore University and an Executive MBA from the Indian School of Business. With over 30 years of experience, he has worked with multiple companies globally. He has been the CVP and Head of Transportation, Manufacturing & Medical Verticals at HCL Technologies and has played a pivotal role in developing go-to-market strategies in Engineering Operations, Business Development, Product Management, and Product Engineering & Development across various industry verticals. Before that he has served as the EVP at Alleges Group. He was responsible for building the Automotive Engineering Practice at Satyam Computer Services. He has also worked with Owens Corning, BOSCH, and TATA Advanced Materials.

David Zolet

SSA Board Member

David has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a BS/MS in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He is a CEO at Central Square and has 30+ years of experience in government technology space market. He has also previously served as the President and CEO of LMI; and also led the North American Public Sector unit of DXC Technology. He has been the VP of Systems Integration at IBM and has spent 20+ years with Northrop Grumman Corporation (President of the Commercial, State, and Local group; president of the Defense group; and VP of homeland security).

Devin Fitting

Sr. Director of Operation & Recruitment

Devin hold a Bachelors in Aeronautic and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University. He joined Butler back in 2004 as an Airframe Design Engineer and since then has carried out different roles of engineering across several functional groups. He has 17 years of Engineering Outsourcing Experience.

Rich Paras

Vice President of Legal, HR, IT & Risk

Rich has a JD form the New York Law School. He has 35 years of experience in Aerospace and Defense Engineering outsourcing, and has been a part of Butler since 1987. He carries out the responsibilities of providing legal, infrastructure business, human resource and risk management services to different groups within the organisation.

Joanna Ross

Director of Finance

Joanna has been a part of Butler since 1992, and had started off as a senior accountant. During her 30 years of association with the company, she has managed various roles. She has a Bachelors degree in Accounting form William Paterson University.

Sebastian Delmaire

Sr. Vice President of Sales

Sebastian has a Masters in Political Studies from Sciences-Po Paris. He began his professional career at Airbus Helicopters as the Head of competitive studies, and then became VP Strategy & Business Development in North America. He has been a Director of Partnerships at Aston Martin Lagonda. He has worked with the French Air Force for 16 years. With 20 years of experience in Aerospace and Defence Industry, he joined Butler in 2022.

Al Moreno

Sr. Vice President of Business Development & Chief Growth Officer

Al holds academic qualifications of BS in Business Management from University of Phoenix and AS in Mechanical Engineering/ Technology from Mesa Community College. He has been part of Butler for 9 years, and had started off as the Director of Operations and became SVP of Business Development in 2018 and now also carries out the responsibilities as a Growth Officer. He has over 30 years of experience in Aerospace and Defence Engineering. His professional career started at Boeing where he served as the CDI’s regional director of operations.

Jim Heun

President & Chief Operations Officer

Jim has over 4 decades of Aerospace and Defence Industry Experience. He has been a part of Sikorsky of a good 24 years, and joined Butler back in 2012 as the SVP of Operations. He has been elected as the President by the Butler board back in 2020. Jim holds a MBA in Technology Management from the University of New Haven.

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Highly Experienced SSA Board

Patrick M. Dewar

Stephen G. Wood

David Zolet

Hari Sadarahalli

Siba Satapathy

Jim Heun

Butler Executive Staff Industry Veterans

Jim Heun

Al Moreno

Sebastian Delmaire

Joanna Ross

Rich Paras

Devin Fitting

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Stephen G. Wood

Patrick M. Dewar

Siba Satapathy

Hari Sadarahalli

David Zolet

Devin Fitting

Rich Paras

Joanna Ross

Sebastian Delmaire

Al Moreno

Jim Heun