Joan Saint Amour

Ms. Saint Amour serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Eclipse Group, Inc. She has spent over twenty years working for technical and engineering organizations on government and commercial contracts. Ms. Saint Amour has predominately worked in the defense services industry, providing finance, accounting, pricing and contract management.

She has spent the past twelve years in the aerospace industry working on a wide variety of government defense contracts. Government customers have included the U.S. Navy, Air Force, DOE, Dept. of Interior and NASA. She has served 5 years at ARINC as Pricing Manager for Defense Engineering Services for both government and airline customers. From 1997 to 2003, she was employed at Lear Seigler Services, Inc., a Carlyle company, as pricing analyst and manager. She has managed government proposals that have included contract vehicles using over 100 subcontractors and with an estimated worth of $3 billion dollars.

From 1990 to 1997, Ms. Saint Amour served as Manager, Program Planners/Controllers for Oceaneering Technologies, Inc., a company based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, specializing in the marine services industry. At Oceaneering, she was directly involved in all aspects of the U.S. Navy’s World Wide Search and Recovery Contract. During this time she also worked on numerous contracts with foreign governments and multi-national companies for various subsea engineering, manufacturing, search and recovery projects.

In addition, she implemented Oceaneering Technologies’ pricing and project management systems. She integrated and automated the accounting and project management systems in order for executive, senior management and engineering to use earned value analysis techniques and financial measurement.