APEX Accelerator
at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville / Madison County Chamber of Commerce
225 Church Street, Suite 319
Huntsville, AL 35801
256-824-6936
sbdc.uah.edu
Kris McBride, Procurement Advisor
Ms. Kris McBride has an extensive background serving our community and in the Defense Industry. Kris retired as a V.P. of SAIC where she served as Deputy Program Manager (DPM) for $1B Systems Engineering Services contracts with over a hundred project teams and more than 2000 fulltime equivalent personnel from SAIC and 150+ funded subcontracted companies delivering systems, software, hardware, network, and test engineering, transition support, fielding and user support, training support, configuration management, quality engineering, senior level program support. Kris has extensive experience in the software industry serving as an Executive Manager for Intergraph, as President of Sigmatech, a Small Disadvantaged Business. While at Intergraph, Kris managed several international projects and sales with the United Kingdom, Sweden, Singapore, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
Kris has a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics (double major) from The University of Tennessee, and a MS Computer Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Kris has served in several leadership positions including Board of Directors Chair for the Huntsville/Madison County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Immediate Past President (Region) of the Association of the United States Army’s (AUSA), President-Nominee of the Rotary Club of Madison, Alabama, and member of the Huntsville Committee of 100. Kris is committed to providing assistance and serving as a bridge between our small business community, prime contractors and government agencies.
Marc Jacobson, Procurement Advisor
Mr. Marc Jacobson has an extensive background serving our community and in the Defense Industry. He recently retired from serving as the City Administrator with the city of Madison, AL, has served in leadership roles with the Chambers of Commerce and several community and non-profit boards of directors. Marc retired as a V.P. of SAIC managing over 900 employees, subcontractors and small businesses, providing engineering support for Army systems at Redstone Arsenal, with a portfolio valued at $165M in revenue. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel having served for 25 years in the Active and Army Reserves. Marc is Chapter Executive Vice President – Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA), member/Past President – Rotary Club of Madison, board member/Past President – Better Business Bureau (BBB) of North Alabama and is a member of Committee 100. He has over 33 years working in government contracting.
Marc has a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Administrative Science (MAS) from Johns Hopkins University. He is a graduate of both Leadership Greater Huntsville and Leadership Alabama. Marc’s extensive experience managing programs from local, city and federal contracting. He is passionate about providing opportunities for growth in government contracting for our local small businesses and economy.
Todd Steigerwald, Procurement Advisor
Mr. Todd Steigerwald is a native of Huntsville, AL and a USAF veteran with over 40 years’ experience working in the aerospace and defense industry. He has a strong working knowledge of government regulations and associated business policies and procedures. And has supported numerous R&D activities as well as high dollar USG and FMS missile production programs
Todd started his career as a Contract Specialist in the USAF and then worked for several large businesses, ex. FMC, SCI, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas and others. He subsequently started and/or helped grow numerous small businesses such as Steigerwald & Associates, Miltec, Venturi, Banner Defense and others. Todd’s career highlights include the support of critical DoD and NASA programs to include MDA’s THAAD Missile, the US Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and NASA’s SpaceHab and Hubble Space Telescope programs.
While working for large businesses, Todd held several contract and acquisition positions to include Sr. Contract Administrator, Pricing Manager, Subcontract Administrator and Price/Cost Analyst. Responsibilities ranged from submitting proposals and negotiating contracts to drafting Teaming Agreements, U.S. State Department Technical Assistance Agreements, etc. While supporting small businesses, Todd held key leadership positions and was responsible for the entire Business Operations to include Contracts, Pricing/Estimating, Accounting, Human Resources, Security, etc.
Todd holds undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Organizational Leadership from Columbia Southern University and a Master’s in Education from Auburn University. He is longtime member of the National Contract Management Association and is a Certified Professional Contract Manager (CPCM). Todd is a graduate of Leadership Greater Huntsville (Class 22) and a strong advocate of the Autism at Work Program.
Earl C. Johnson, Procurement Advisor
Bio coming soon.