Chris Beauparlant

Chris Beauparlant is Vice President of the Sensors and Missile Systems (SMS) business unit for Thales Defense & Security, Inc. He leads all business and operations for SMS, which specializes in optronics and sensors, observation and target location, and seekers and fuzes for air and ground applications.

His career began in regional sales with WCJ Associates, where he sold high power RF products for radar applications, and heat pipe and heat sinks. Mr. Beauparlant joined Thompson Components Corporation in 1996, where he managed the Angenieux commercial zoom lens business in the US, and successfully established distribution channels and a country-wide service network. He continued as Director of Business Development for Thales Components Corporation, before advancing to the position of Vice President for the Optronics business line in the Land Defense Division of Thales Components Corporation. He later served as Chief Executive Officer of Thales Components Corporation.

Mr. Beauparlant earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics.