Joseph Cormier

Joe found CrossFit in early 2012 and is an avid participant in the CrossFit community. After years of struggling to achieve the same fitness level he had when playing Division I-AA college football, Joe saw the immediate benefits of the CrossFit methodology and was hooked. He trains at CrossFit Verity in Dulles, VA, is a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer, and has a passion to grow the CrossFit community through Rigquipment’s unique business model.

Joe is also the Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder of Galeos Group, a private equity backed government services platform business in DC metro region. Previously he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for a Sotera Defense Solutions, a national security contractor with $400 million in revenue and 1,500 employees. While in that role, Joe helped take the company private and engineer its strategic growth plan that doubled the size of the company in two years through organic and M&A growth. Joe was responsible for directing the fiscal functions of the company in accordance with its strategic objectives and was responsible for the Company’s merger and acquisition (M&A) program, leading the execution of capital markets transactions. In previous roles, Joe was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development for ManTech International Corporation, a roughly $3 billion revenue and 10,000 employee firm. He joined ManTech in 2005, when it was $800 million in revenue and 4,000 employees, where he was the corporate officer who led and executed ManTech’s M&A, capital structure and investor relations programs. Before ManTech, Joe was the Vice President, Corporate Development for DigitalNet, which was sold to BAE Systems, North America in 2004 following its IPO in 2003. Prior to DigitalNet, Joe was an investment banker in the Technology Group at Banc of America Securities, LLC.Joe currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) National Capital Chapter, a global community for business leaders, middle market M&A dealmakers and capital providers focused on driving growth. The National Capital Chapter serves the fourth largest economic region in the country. He is an executive advisor to Data Tactics Corporation, Enlightenment Capital and Restoration Capital.

Joe has a B.A. in Economics/Political Science from Columbia University, N.Y.