Kevin Brabec

Background

About Kevin Brabec

Proven track record prevailing over entrenched competition to capture business, building strong relationships with the right customers, and ensuring timely, profitable delivery of high quality products and services. Versatile general management executive and turnaround expert with over two decades of broad-based leadership success spanning program management and operations, business development, and customer relationship management, as integral member of senior management of world-leading aerospace and defense technology company. Consistently provide vision and strategy driving business capture and top line business growth, road-mapping and leveraging market potential of new/emerging technology, and aligning capital/R&D investments with strategic objectives. Special ability to quickly establish trusted relationships with customers, suppliers, investors, and even competitors, while inspiring teams to come together to achieve end goals. Selected to lead capture effort that won $2B+ relationship against entrenched incumbent, transforming unknown provider status to prime supplier position that has secured major revenues for company and will employ hundreds for many years. Rescued $230M program, bringing critically behind schedule up to date and saving $Millions in jeopardized milestone incentives by restructuring team and program plan, regaining customer trust, and overcoming key technical challenges. Played critical leadership role in regaining premier supplier market position, cementing place as sole source to government while putting prime competitor out of business and fundamentally changing future of organization and marketplace.