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Our Company
Leadership
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Kris McGuire, Chief Executive Officer founded Victory Solutions in 2006 to provide a range of
aerospace engineering products and technical services to the Department of Defense (DoD),
NASA and commercial customers.
As one of the first women assigned to the Air Force Special Weapons Center’s maintenance squadron at Kirkland Air Force Base during the Vietnam War, Kris experienced first-hand the importance of supplying the War Fighter with the right tools to accomplish critical missions in a timely fashion. It was with this experience in mind, coupled with a proven ability to identify, organize, fund and successfully start-up large projects, that she initiated a research and development effort to design a portable system to defend the War Fighter against small rocket threats in 2007. After proof-of-concept she obtained support for prototype development; taking advantage of Huntsville’s engineering expertise combined with the manufacturing expertise found in Guntersville and Marshall County. In 2007 Kris expanded her young company’s focus to support NASA Marshall Space Flight Center with design, development, test and evaluation expertise to create the nation’s next generation launch system, Ares I and V. She led an effort that won a MSFC engineering support prime contract for Victory Solutions in early 2008. This contract continues to provide MSFC with Concept Development, Design Engineering, Analysis, Systems Engineering, and Test Integration support to define and evaluate the new Space Launch System (SLS).
Victory Solutions has grown at an average annual rate of 45% from 2006 to 2010 under Kris’ leadership. This growth has included expanding Victory Solutions’ knowledge base and footprint into 5 other states to support programs managed by the Missile Defense Agency, DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, and the Transportation Security Agency. Kris finds developing an idea or product through all phases of its life cycle to be one of the most satisfying aspects of being the CEO of Victory Solutions. She understands you can only do this by recruiting and sustaining an effective technical and management team. An example of this practice is demonstrated by her receiving the 2010 Alabama “Patriot Award” given by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve to those that support and acknowledge the contribution of employees in the National Guard or Reserve.
Her passion for public policy as a private citizen is marked by her involvement with leading service disabled veterans initiatives at the grassroots level and lobbying for more positive support. As part of our local community, Kris has raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations ranging from the arts to education. Knowing that the power of these investments can be multiplied by working with government, she has built relationships with both sides of the aisle of the Alabama Delegation in Congress. She has leveraged these relationships to work on projects to ensure the voting rights of the military stationed overseas, as well as develop programs to offer local and national community colleges system engineering courses leveraged from NASA and DoD expertise in the Huntsville area.
A 1988 graduate of St. Mary’s College in Maryland with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, Kris is also a board member of the Women's Business Center of North Alabama and a member of the National Space Club.
As one of the first women assigned to the Air Force Special Weapons Center’s maintenance squadron at Kirkland Air Force Base during the Vietnam War, Kris experienced first-hand the importance of supplying the War Fighter with the right tools to accomplish critical missions in a timely fashion. It was with this experience in mind, coupled with a proven ability to identify, organize, fund and successfully start-up large projects, that she initiated a research and development effort to design a portable system to defend the War Fighter against small rocket threats in 2007. After proof-of-concept she obtained support for prototype development; taking advantage of Huntsville’s engineering expertise combined with the manufacturing expertise found in Guntersville and Marshall County. In 2007 Kris expanded her young company’s focus to support NASA Marshall Space Flight Center with design, development, test and evaluation expertise to create the nation’s next generation launch system, Ares I and V. She led an effort that won a MSFC engineering support prime contract for Victory Solutions in early 2008. This contract continues to provide MSFC with Concept Development, Design Engineering, Analysis, Systems Engineering, and Test Integration support to define and evaluate the new Space Launch System (SLS).
Victory Solutions has grown at an average annual rate of 45% from 2006 to 2010 under Kris’ leadership. This growth has included expanding Victory Solutions’ knowledge base and footprint into 5 other states to support programs managed by the Missile Defense Agency, DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, and the Transportation Security Agency. Kris finds developing an idea or product through all phases of its life cycle to be one of the most satisfying aspects of being the CEO of Victory Solutions. She understands you can only do this by recruiting and sustaining an effective technical and management team. An example of this practice is demonstrated by her receiving the 2010 Alabama “Patriot Award” given by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve to those that support and acknowledge the contribution of employees in the National Guard or Reserve.
Her passion for public policy as a private citizen is marked by her involvement with leading service disabled veterans initiatives at the grassroots level and lobbying for more positive support. As part of our local community, Kris has raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations ranging from the arts to education. Knowing that the power of these investments can be multiplied by working with government, she has built relationships with both sides of the aisle of the Alabama Delegation in Congress. She has leveraged these relationships to work on projects to ensure the voting rights of the military stationed overseas, as well as develop programs to offer local and national community colleges system engineering courses leveraged from NASA and DoD expertise in the Huntsville area.
A 1988 graduate of St. Mary’s College in Maryland with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, Kris is also a board member of the Women's Business Center of North Alabama and a member of the National Space Club.
