Driving Aerospace Excellence
Skyward Strategies is at the forefront of empowering ventures in the aerospace sector.
Expertise
Growth Strategy
The aerospace industry has been experiencing extraordinary change. How can your company leverage industry dynamics to grow? Where are the right places to pursue and invest? Should a company undertake a strategic pivot? Wisdom comes from fact-based analyses, strategic thinking, and experience. Skyward Strategies has decades of experience exploring, advising, and leading through questions such as these with a strong track record of success.
Acquisition Advising
Companies and investment firms looking to assess acquisition targets face significant challenges:
- Technical Understanding: in some cases you literally need to be a rocket scientist to understand an opportunity
- Market Understanding: sufficiently targeted and granular market insight to inform decision making is exceptionally hard to find
- Opportunity Assessment: looking under the hood of a company to determine its value and growth potential is a learned skill that comes from experience and training
All of these are areas of proven expertise for Skyward Strategies
Business Development
With over three decades of direct engagement in business development in most aerospace industry segments, we can help succeed. Our experience steers you to the right strategy. Our network connects you to the right people. And our knowledge of the industry–its dynamics, politics, personalities, history, and current customer priorities–will lead you to win new business.
Market Intelligence
Most industry market reports are compilations of generalities and statistics that cannot inform decisions or actions. Our team has decades of experience synthesizing respected market data sources, sifting through what is meaningful and what is not, and ferreting out the specific market intelligence and data to inform decisions. Our network of experts is then able to confirm and/or redirect findings and conclusions based on their direct experience to help you make the best decisions.
Campaign Strategy and Execution
Companies desiring to win a government acquisition or sell to a prime defense contractor need an experienced, successful team with relevant customer relationships and acquisition knowledge. Skyward Strategies has a track record of leading and executing successful acquisitions with strategic wins directly attributable to its sound strategies and execution.
About Kent
Kent is a seasoned aerospace and defense professional with 30 years’ experience in leadership and advisory roles across the industry.
Kent worked for several years at McKinsey & Co., and has served in senior leadership roles in small startups, medium-sized companies, and at the largest prime contractors. In most of his roles he has been responsible for determining where a company can grow, which products and customers it should be investing in to maximize growth, and then realizing that growth through execution. He has developed a rich network, having directly worked in satellites and spacecraft, propulsion systems, rockets and launch systems, hypersonics, avionics and electronics, nuclear missiles, missile defense systems, and aircraft.
Kent holds degrees from the U.S. Air Force Academy, MIT, and Harvard Business School.
Contact Us
Ready to navigate the aerospace industry with confidence?