Captain (Retired) Glen Ives is Castellum’s CEO responsible for maximizing the value of the business. He was formally Castellum’s COO responsible for establishing and growing Castellum's Navy and Marine Corps Division and identifying companies for potential acquisition. Before joining Castellum he was President and CEO of Sabre Systems, he brought together a world class team of technology leaders and professionals and transformed the company into a leading technology solutions and services enterprise, providing software and systems engineering solutions for mission critical requirements across the high value domains of Cyber, AI/ML, C5ISR, Data Science and Analytics, Cloud Technologies, and Digital Transformation. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy and United States Army War College, he served as a Naval Officer and Naval Aviator deployed throughout the world and across the United States.
His last Navy assignment was in Southern Maryland as Commanding Officer of the World's Finest Naval Air Station Patuxent River, the nation's premier Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Center of Excellence for Naval Aviation; representing a $45 billion enterprise of over 22,000 engineering, technology and business professionals.
He also served as President of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance and helped lead Maryland's efforts to become a FAA designated UAS Test Site for UAS integration into the National Airspace, and he coordinated and brokered a partnership with the states of Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey and their respective state universities.
His leadership while President of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance, also helped to bring the University System of Maryland to the Southern Maryland region with an anticipated $85 million Academic and Research, Development and Technology Innovation complex at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland. This new multi-million dollar center will fuel technology innovation, transfer and commercialization, and new startups. It will also significantly strengthen the Southern Maryland region's work force through education and training opportunities, grow better paying, higher quality professional careers and jobs, and diversify the region's economy and industry base.
Glen also served on the Board of Directors of the Professional Services Council (PSC), the leading advocate of the government technology and professional services industry, as well as the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance (Past President). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of Maryland and the Advisory Board for the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland.