Joseph Buss

Joseph Buss (Joe) attended the United States Naval Academy and upon graduation with a Mechanical Engineering, B.S., in 1994 Joe entered the United States Marine Corps. The leadership experience Joe gained during his active duty with the Marines provided him the platform upon which he began his career at Lockheed Martin. While continuing his service in the Marine Corps Reserves, Joe worked for Lockheed Martin in various engineering leadership positions & business-leadership capacities within Mission-System development programs. His role at Lockheed Martin as Business-Area leader for increasing complex and diverse, mission-critical programs greatly catalyzed his career. Joe’s achieved a reputation for reconstructing large programs that were on the verge of failure and leading associated customer-relationship remediation efforts.

While at Lockheed Martin, Joe earned a Master of Science in Engineering Management. He has continued his executive-education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Business. Following his time at Lockheed Martin, Joe assumed the role of Senior Vice President, Mission Solutions & Agile Decision Sciences, LLC supporting development of mission-management & integrated decision-support systems. During his time here, he was directly responsible for top-line growth of 70% and creating a corporate-wide Software Engineering Center of Excellence with a pipeline of new business estimated at $2B. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Thunderbolt Solutions supporting development of mission-management & unmanned systems.