Steven Minkin

Dr. Steven Minkin started with Teksouth in 2019 and served as the Director of Continuous Process Improvement prior to being select to serve as President in 2020. Prior to joining the Teksouth family, Dr. Minkin served 27 years as an Air Force Officer and retired in the rank of Colonel. During his Air Force career, he served as a Chief Financial Officer at several locations around the world to include the Air Force Pentagon.

During his Air Force career, Dr. Minkin served as a member of the Financial Management Board of Directors, leading the professional development and training of over 4,500 Air Force financial management professionals. He was responsible for the formulations, development, and presentation of the Air Force’s $43B annual operations and maintenance budget. This budget funded all Air Force operations to include the Global War on Terrorism and Overseas Contingency Operations.

Additionally, Dr. Minkin served as the Chief Financial Officer for Air Combat Command. Leading a team of 48 personnel and responsible for 20+ operating locations across the globe, he was responsible for ensuring American Airpower was properly funded, trained, and ready to meet the nation’s needs. His leadership ensured stateside and deployed units were able to respond to national threats, and support the objectives of the President and Congress.

While on active duty, Dr. Minkin earned is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from the Air Force. He led the facilitation of enterprise level projects to streamline financial operations, develop strategic engagement plans, and created the governance and structure for new organizations. His facilitation skills were called up on by private sector partners to help improve pricing and production of air craft replacement parts. As the lead facilitator for an Air Force wide travel project, Dr. Minkin led the team to find improvement that reduced travel settlement payments by over 40 work hours and improved process accuracy by over 70%. He is also an internationally published author and speaker on the topics of leadership, virtual teams, data analytics, and process improvement.

In is his current role, Dr. Minkin leads the day-to-day operation of Teksouth. He leads the development and creation of the company’s strategic plan and the formulation of annual performance goals and measures. His team of senior leaders oversee all operations of the company to include human resources, finance, marketing, sales, continuous process improvement, business development, customer experience, product research and development and client engagements.

Dr. Minkin is leading Teksouth into the next decade. His strategic and deliberate approach to leadership coupled with his passion for developing leaders is the perfect combination to grow Teksouth while continuing to provide the solution minded, customer first approach they are known for.